Thank you to all who helped with this event. I appreciate all the work and effort that goes into this. Upper Bluff was my favorite trail, Great River Road boxes were such a fabulous addition for our coming and going, and night boxing was just the best!

Came out great!
$6.20 for one through Venmo?

I keep telling people that I don't look a day over 49. But with God as my witness, I really am two whole days over 49 now!

-- Ryan

Conditions change, stamps deteriorate, original logbooks fill up and are replaced, etc. Blue diamonds are not permanent.

I like to read alot of the board posts, from all states, & I’ve noticed more abbreviations being used. Even in some clues. Some, I haven’t got a
clue(pun intended) what they mean. For example, FTF ?? Going by the context it could mean a couple of things. Free To Find or Fun To Find ?
Some can be easily figured out. I’m guilty of doing it myself with the LFL
(Little Free Library), not taking into consideration these are not common in a lot of cities/states, or that visitors from other states may not have heard of them or seen one until they hit the New England area. So, just curious,
FTF anyone familiar with this one ?

What does BD stand for?
I googled and there are several meanings of all different kinds and situations.

oh yeah -

First to Find...

And watch for elbows trying to get there first :)

Most definitely.

Somewhere I have a great pic I took of Ryan with this kookie hat on. I intended to post a link to it but sadly I couldn't find it. ☹️

But regardless, happy milestone, turtlehead. I hope you had a great birthday!

DZ

Or 21 in Turtle years.

That's not been my experience on major browsers. What browser are you watching YouTube on, that will determine the ad rate? The link I provided is to YouTube just on the DDG browser where there are no ads.

Blue Diamond

Ahhhh. Soooooo there must have been some changes in the location since GG found it in such a mess. I would think. So I didn’t think BD stood for anything good.Now I see.

I have Safari but it’s not the browser.

Some people have channels on YouTube and just upload content with no ads. They aren’t doing it to make money. They are sharing content they find interesting.

If something gets watched a lot YouTube will put in ads and the person who owns the channel has no control. But if it’s not getting a lot of watches YouTube will very often leave it alone.

It may be that a lot of the stuff I watch is pretty obscure…old British classic movies ….old and obscure tv stuff, plays, stuff like that….stuff that probably has a limited audience. If not a lot of people are watching it YouTube won’t put an ad in it. Therefore I do watch a lot with no ads.

But this guy has a huge audience and I've watched a lot of his videos with just ads in the beginning. Or none in the beginning. He makes a lot of money. I don't know how that works. I've watched his whole long videos with no ads. So.

https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello

Congratulations to you, angel winks, aka Louanne, on Box of the Week!

Another box to add to my bucket list!

Shelly

Thank you so much 🫂 for that one, that should have been so clear to me.

Thanks to you too !!! Can’t believe this
wasn’t my first guess.🙄

to NLW! And DCStones! So nice to know both of you... hope you can grab some ink on this hot Wednesday!

Little Free Libraries abound in Ohio and Northern Kentucky at least. I see them frequently, so not a New England thing

As far as abbreviations, I love when people use them (appropriately) in clues. I like to figure it out and have that "Aha!" moment. But then, I do like clues better than directions.

I thought posting pictures of stamp images (unless you carved it) is considered bad form?

Thanks. The lighthouse where it is located is really the star of the show. Michigan is full of gorgeous lighthouses. If someone is looking for a good road trip, driving up along either the west or the east side of Michigan allows for loads of lighthouse visits along beautiful waters. My husband and I have done this a couple of different times over the years and enjoyed it both times.

They're trying to identify a stamp. I thought, maybe, we could extend a little grace.

That is correct you can AQ mail me your address and let me know you sent the 6.20 to @pawsitivitySHL

Mush

First step would be to share the location (I was at such and such park for example) as zdz suggested and then people can reach out privately if it sounds like a box they have found.

As a person who has some restricted and mystery boxes, I would not be happy if someone posted one of my carves without my permission.

LFL are all over.

https://littlefreelibrary.org/map/

I actually have a letterbox planted at my Little Free Library, and another boxer (next county over) has one planted at her LFL also.

There are so many options to potentially identify the box without posting the image. I think showing respect to the planter is important as well.

As far as I know, not much information has been given to help anyone narrow it down. I could be wrong on that.

Not trying to start a fight--just my opinion

I agree with J. There are too many legit reasons that the OP couldn't identify the box - going straight to posting the image seems a little drastic.

Edited to add: Mama Stork posted while I was composing my response. Ninja'd!

congrats!!!!

CT has plenty! We have over 25 in our town alone (1 in my front yard!)