Be on the lookout for quirky mailbox author

I knew mailboxing would be fun, what I didn’t know was that it might land me in handcuffs.

Reflecting on my recent roadside run-in with law enforcement, I consider the humorous likelihood that officer Joe Shields of the Bainbridge Island Police Department has body-cam footage of me explaining away my “suspicious” behavior as routine mailboxing.

I’ve got three months of mailboxing under my belt and with time the need to explain what I’m doing while out in the field has diminished. Nowadays, when I’m working a neighborhood, I mostly get, “Oh yeah, I heard about that!” 

The recognition of my quirky project is satisfying and while tooling around BI in my white VW Beetle, I fancy myself as the “Mailbox Lady.”

On Aug. 11 while driving along the lavishly treed streets of Battle Point, I continued to celebrate the creative identity of our community. Ensconced in this reverie I failed to notice the frantic lady running behind my car, trying to wave me down . . .

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