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Re: LBNA no Windham county Archives in CT
Board: LbNA Chatter
Reply to: #1042231 by PineTree
Nov 4, 2025 12:02pm
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When I searched for Windham county and included archived clues, I ended up with 5 pages of boxes.

I exported to CSV and then filtered by Active=NO.
I ended up with 144 boxes.

I just emailed the excel spreadsheet to you.
Re: Who would inherit Atlas Quest?
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #1042228 by wassamatta u
Nov 4, 2025 12:53pm
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who, yes, actually DID program in Fortran and COBOL on punched cards

I loved Fortran, but punched cards, not so much. One typo and the card was ruined and you had to start over with a new card. Pretty expensive since I was paying my way through college at the time and boxes of cards weren't cheap. Today I still marvel at being able to just backspace and retype mistakes online.
Re: Saved lists
Board: Clue Tracker
Reply to: #1042226 by SherlockMiles
Nov 4, 2025 2:22pm
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I'm guessing that they are stored on the DEVICE and not the ACCOUNT.

Yes, Clue Tracker stores its lists of boxes on your phone or tablet. There is no way to have the lists stay in sync automatically across two or more devices, but you can share a list from one device and import the data into another one (even if the trail names are different). Please see our FAQ entries on sharing:

Re: Who would inherit Atlas Quest?
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #1042210 by Green Tortuga
Nov 4, 2025 2:40pm
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I have a lifetime subscription paid in full . I’m too old, blind, and osteoporosis-ridden to box, plant, or maintain. Can you take my lifetime funds and extend it to maintenance or whatever?

Warrior Woman
team player
Re: Is anyone in touch with Beach Bum TX?
Board: State: Texas
Reply to: #1042220 by Amyrica
Nov 4, 2025 2:54pm
Thread Board
Oh, no! I will ask her about it if she shows up to TALE and ask around. If I can find her contact number, I'll give her your deets.
Re: Blaze Orange Season
Board: State: Maine
Reply to: #1042186 by MagicalMichelle
Nov 4, 2025 4:19pm
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I have a fleece lined orange hoodie that I like to wear outside during hunting season. It’s Halloween themed.
Re: Saved lists
Board: Clue Tracker
Reply to: #1042238 by TrailMark
Nov 4, 2025 6:35pm
Thread Board
Thank you! That's what we did today. It worked perfectly sharing the list.
Re: Sir Paul in Tulsa? Under a bridge?
Board: Yakking It Up
Reply to: #1042112 by DarkZen and Evil Cow Pie
Nov 5, 2025 9:28am
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At one of his concerts, Sir Paul asked if there were any guitarists in the audience. And then went on to tell them they were playing Blackbird wrong.

Probably because they haven't gotten the Paul McCartney finger flicky thing down. highly technical term there. I can do it, but not well at all. So I too am playing Blackbird wrong when I can even remember how to play it (which is terribly, I'm an awful guitarist). :-D
Re: Sir Paul in Tulsa? Under a bridge?
Board: Yakking It Up
Reply to: #1042243 by DM Scuba Brat
Nov 5, 2025 3:24pm
Thread Board
I love to play guitar but am not so good at it. I struggle to play Blackbird at all!
Run Don’t Walk - Colorbox
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Nov 6, 2025 10:12am
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A friend noticed this was available via Amazon at an event last weekend. We thought, ‘It couldn’t be the real thing.’ Nevertheless, my order came in today and someone must have found a box with extra color box color wheels in a storage room.

Looks like there’s 5 left, so thought I’d share before a non-letterboxer nabs them!

Link
Re: Run Don’t Walk - Colorbox
Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #1042251 by AdventurousAcorn
Nov 7, 2025 6:46am
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And they are gone.
Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Nov 7, 2025 6:57am
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Anyone with a truck in the Traverse City, Michigan area this weekend that wants to pick up a load of free carving material? Slightly sooty... It has to be gone by Monday.
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042253 by Webfoot
Nov 7, 2025 7:35am
Thread Board
If you use Tan-Z Kut, it will be worth your while. I'll throw in some smoked inks and tools into the bargain. :)
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042254 by Webfoot
Nov 7, 2025 8:01am
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My heart breaks - I wish I was closer - just to lend a hand...
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042255 by mudflinginfools
Nov 7, 2025 8:14am
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Thank you! It's pretty devastating. I hate to see all this stuff head to a landfill, but I have nowhere to go with it and has to get out of the house before they can start the remediation and rebuilding process.
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042256 by Webfoot
Nov 7, 2025 8:30am
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I hate to see all this stuff head to a landfill, but I have nowhere to go with it

Is the material still usable? Can it be stored somewhere until you get your feet on the ground? Is it possible to have insurance cover it along with the rest of the damage? Any possibility of someone else taking over the cutting and shipping of products, for a split of the revenue?

***retired CPA, always trying to "account" for the bottom line***
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042253 by Webfoot
Nov 7, 2025 10:14am
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I'm too far away to help, but sending warm, healing thoughts. I hope you find someone.

DZ 🧡
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042253 by Webfoot
Nov 7, 2025 12:00pm
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I would bet we can start a GoFundMe page and all the awesome people in this letterboxing community that you have taken care of over the years could raise enough money to pay for a storage unit to store that stuff and save it from the landfill for sure?
You have always taken great care of me over the years I'm sure I'm not alone. It would be my honor to pay some of the kindness back anybody else?
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042260 by T REX
Nov 7, 2025 12:47pm
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Count me in!
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042253 by Webfoot
Nov 7, 2025 1:12pm
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Webfoot, my husband is willing to drive up with me this weekend from Grand Rapids to get the carving material. I will message you and we can work out the details.
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042262 by Angel Winks
Nov 7, 2025 1:16pm
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I just sent a message to her, too, and reached out to my cousins.
How many beautiful places have you seen?
Board: State: Indiana
Nov 7, 2025 4:26pm
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I just found this video and had to share. Easily have been to 65-70% and letterboxes can be found in some of these beautiful locations. [
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042257 by Wise Wanderer
Nov 7, 2025 4:48pm
Thread Board
I think everything is still usable. It's just going to need cleaning. It might have residual smoke smell. I don't know.

I have to laugh a little about splitting the revenue. There hasn't been any to split for years. Formula test runs eat all the profits (and then some) since we lost PZ Kut. Stampeaz has been a labor of love. 🤣

My insurance won't cover moving, cleaning or storage, so it's going to have to go.
Re: How many beautiful places have you seen?
Board: State: Indiana
Reply to: #1042264 by speedsquare
Nov 7, 2025 6:59pm
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That's an interesting video! I need to travel around more in Indiana. I've got a lot of cool places yet to see.
Guardrails?
Board: Stupider Questions About Letterboxing
Nov 8, 2025 3:07pm
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Newbie here! I have attempted two letterboxes with clues that state they are hidden “inside the guardrail” at a location. I wrote to the planter of the first one because I wasn’t able to locate it and worried that it had gone missing.

Then I attempted a second guardrail box and it too was nowhere to be seen, but I know it had been found by someone last week. So now I’m wondering if it’s me. Am I missing something very obvious about where planters like to place boxes in guardrails?
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042265 by Webfoot
Nov 8, 2025 3:56pm
Thread Board
I wish I could help. Were you able to find someone to take it? Paula is going to send me a flat rate box of some and I am going to send you some $ too.

Find any Staedler tools in your stash?
A girl can dream right?

BB
Re: Guardrails?
Board: Stupider Questions About Letterboxing
Reply to: #1042268 by Rat Queen
Nov 8, 2025 4:44pm
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Welcome to Letterboxing !!!
First make sure you have the correct end of guardrail, I end up checking both ends quite often. Sometimes if it says they are magnets, when you reach inside the end of guardrail, feel all around the top, & sides, sometimes finger length in, sometimes it’s wrist length in. Sometimes it may feel like a bolt. If it’s in a pouch, reach in, usually wrist length, some have been further in elbow length. Takes finding a few to get the feel for it. If you miss it, keep checking on AQ to see if someone else finds it. Hope this helps. Good luck 🍀🍀🍀
Re: Guardrails?
Board: Stupider Questions About Letterboxing
Reply to: #1042268 by Rat Queen
Nov 8, 2025 4:46pm
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Guardrails can definitely be tricky. Or Easy Peasy. I’ve experienced both. Anecdotal story…bout a year or so ago a very experienced L’boxer and myself met up at rest area to nab a new box and we could not find it. Now here’s the good part. I brought a friend with me (from Thailand) and while my L’boxer friend and I stepped away and were chatting we hear a yelp! My noxer friend had kept looking and had found the box!!!! We were like what the hay??? So here we have 2 with each 20+ year experience vs 0 year experience and the 0 wins out.
All this to say don’t give up.
Guardrails can be more difficult than they appear to be.
Re: Have Truck, Will Travel?
Board: Stamp Carving and Mounting
Reply to: #1042269 by Bungalow Boxer
Nov 8, 2025 8:33pm
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No need to send any money my way, BB.

I still have 60 sheets of Tan-Z Kut, if anyone else wants to visit the site of devastation. (Although, since it's in the garage, it escaped the soot storm.)

There were a couple Staedtler tools in a hidden corner, but I confess that I claimed them for my very own. ;-)

The four intrepid souls who showed up to clear out the entire store worked very hard to haul it all away and, while it breaks my heart to let go of Stampeaz, it heals it a little to know it won't all be going to a landfill. So, thank you all for that!

And who knows, in a year or so a puffin may rise from the ashes like the proverbial phoenix. Only time will tell.

I also kept a little stack of PZ Kut, in case I ever decide to try for another attempt at reformulation. :)
Re: Guardrails?
Board: Stupider Questions About Letterboxing
Reply to: #1042271 by Three FLAmigo's
Nov 8, 2025 9:36pm
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ECP and I were searching for a guardrail box a few weeks ago. After letting our fingers search for a while, I finally snatched out the very small box. I dragged it back to the car. It was almost rusted shut. It looked like it had not been found in years despite being logged fairly recently. You know where this is going, right? It was a geocache. There was enough information on it the track it down. It had been archived years ago after a string of DNFs. And yet there it was.

I went back and found the letterbox after another search.

As Three FLAmigo's said, yep, some guardrail hides can be challenging.