Love Bug-Lazbuddie Yellow Scalloped Wood

I maintain records on my trackables. They have the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a target rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days. The average drop rate of my trackables in the US is 124 days, in Europe it is 71 days. As of 31-May-23 this trackable had survived for 3.7 years and had been moved by 9 cachers, for an average drop every 150 days. Please keep it moving, then drop it in a safe place!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean and dry, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This is one of a series of heart-shaped items obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs. They are named either for the places of their origin or for Texas Panhandle-South Plains towns with interesting names or histories.

Lazbuddie is an unincorporated community in Parmer County, Texas, United States.  It was named for local business owners, Luther "Laz" Green, and his partner, Andrew "Buddie" Sherley.  The land, which had been part of the immense XIT Ranch (Red Tower Camp).  Thomas Kelly developed it into the Star ranch but some of it was subsequently sold in small parcels to homesteading families, beginning in 1902.  The community grew up around the store Green and Sherley opened there in 1924.  A post office was opened in the store in 1926, and as of this writing it is still in the original Lazbuddie store.  The town has two cotton gins, a grain elevator, a hardware store, and several churches.  The community's focal point is the Lazbuddie Independent School District which educates children from the surrounding rural area.  Six-man football is played at Lazbuddie High School.  In 1980 through 2000 Lazbuddie reported a population of 248.