I've been going thru all the desk drawers and storage boxes in my home office. The excuse is that I'm looking for something but really I'm just refreshing the memory cells with what is where. Growing old sucks.

Made LTCs to use at Wakeda.
Shoveling.
Carving site stamps for Wakeda.
Shoveling.
Reading.
Eating.
Watching Psych!
Shoveling.
Addressing valentines day cards.
Drinking (soon).
Shoveling.
Sleeping.

My primary letterboxing life goal is to visit and box in all the counties in the US so this issue is familiar to me. Sometime in the past Connecticut did away with county governments reorganized the state into some other chunky regions. Here is a link that discusses the matter more thoroughly. I don't know what the locals think of all this but I would be pissed if I used to live in Hartford County and now I live in Capitol Planning region.

AQ apparently allows the old names as well as the new ones. Confusing as hell. Especially since the boundaries were largely redrawn as well as renamed.

If I weren't doing Dry January, I'd join you!

Been there, done that.


Yep, but it beats the alternative!

Traveling in Peru and Bolivia while my kids keep sending me pictures of the Michigan snow and the temps far below zero.

We had a planning meeting for November's Night at the Museum event last week, so organizing notes, finding images, etc.

And shoveling.

After snow all night Mother Nature can’t decide whether to sleet or rain here in Maryland. Streets won’t be cleared today. Stir crazy husband. Made a big pot of stew. Have a Lab who hates the rain so just stares at us for possible treats. Giving carving another go despite my deteriorating vision. Is it too early for wine? lol 🍷

Lots of snow watching my deer playing in the snow after eating their fill of food.

I’ve been trying to carve a couple of stamps. I struggle carving these days between my hands and my eyes. Getting old stinks, but like someone said, it beats the alternative!

BH

Hello!

I've carved a stamp for a postal, then went to shave the back and shaved it way too thin. The image will come out when stamped, but it is so incredibly floppy that it is not an enjoyable experience trying to get a clean print.

I've seen some postals where the back of the stamp is reinforced with a piece of cardstock or duck tape, and I was wondering if anyone that reinforces the back of their stamps would share their methods with me. Last time I tried to duck tape the back, the duck tape (Brand: LLPT) it melted the stamp beyond repair, similar to soaking the stamp in acetone.

Thanks for the tips!

Mostly trying to convince my older dog that she has to potty outside. I shoveled a path in the grass for her but it’s already filled in. My husband just shoveled a second path. Dani (10) would like to take to puggle HR and her lawyer.

My younger puggle says this is the best. And is playing with our neighbors kids.

I also watched Hunger Games, songbirds.

Oh dear... I hadn't realized that! That's terribly confusing!

Feeling grateful that Michigan is finally getting a decent winter. It snowed all day and I was able to go cross-country skiing straight from my house. I love days like this! Love winter, love snow!

Watching Football !!

What material melted? The fake pink on Amazon loves to melt when touching just about anything and I have no idea what would work for that. On real Speedy Pink I've used Duco Cement. https://a.co/d/6l4Nh5u

I've had success with a thin layer (very thin!) onto card stock for a micro postal and many onto magnets for stealth urban plants.

I'm in your neck of the woods again. Last week- Monday through Thursday were snow and or cold days for school closings. Friday was a scheduled PD day or it would have been a cold day as well. Saturday's actual was -20. And the icebox is continuing.

Condo
Ps... please bring warm weather home🌞🌡🌞

My central Texas kids were thrilled there was white stuff on the ground, even though crunchy sleet isn’t the same as fluffy snow! As they played outside with friends I enjoyed some quiet: read by the fire, carved a few stamps and cut fabric for my next quilt. Rinse and repeat for tomorrow since there is no school!

One of my businesses is basically buying in bulk and reselling in much smaller packages. I bought around 120,000 and sell in sets of 20. Most of today was spent counting to 20 many, many, many times!

That's alot of counting Jonathon!!!

We only got about 4" snow here today, and had no plans- as we went to Church last night.....
Our eldest daughter dropped in this weekend- Friday night and I stayed up chatting with her... Carving stamps and watching Football. I joined Orchid's LTC Superbowl tracker, so curious about how well we guessed the winning teams.
Packing to go see Son, DIL and grandsons tomorrow in Michigan. They live on a small family farm in South Central Michigan, and have brand new baby goat triplets. 2 boys and one girl. I love seeing them when they are babies and they kind of have a hop to their step! Its so cute! The Grandkids are 6 and 2. We'll head back Wednesday evening.

Shelly

You Americans are obsessed with gold! I personally recruited Ursula Andress for the Honey Ryder role in Dr. No. She was quite fun.

Bond, James Bond

The counties are just pulled in from the geocoders, so AQ just reports what they show. Some weird areas sometimes show up as different counties depending on the geocoder--they don't always agree! The whole thing PI Joe pointing out about the counties/not-counties in Connecticut is new information for me. Sounds like CT is having an identity crisis! But that's clearly causing issues for the geocoders.

Unfortunately, there's not really any way for me to fix it easily. Even if I manually edit the entries to be correct, the next person who tries to add a new address will get the geocoded county that the Google or Bing provides.

It's quite likely that many cities will show up twice. For example, "Enfield, Capitol Planning Region County" and as "Enfield, Hartford County". They'll usually look the same since AQ doesn't usually display the county, but wherever you see a list of cities such as on the city directory, it'll look like they are duplicates. That's usually because the two "cities" are listed as being in different "counties."

Anyhow, if you notice that sort of thing, let me know and I'll merge the cities into just one city.

I should probably update the code to stop adding the word "County" after the word "Region." The geocoder typically returns the county without the word "County". (So, in your example, it might return "Hartford" rather than "Hartford County".) So AQ adds "County" to the end of all the counties with a few exceptions that I hard-coded that I knew about. (For example, Burroughs in Alaska, or "Parishes" in Louisiana.) I never knew about the whole "Region" debacle in Connecticut, though, so the "Capitol Planning Region County" is an AQ "bug". It probably should just be "Capitol Planning Region."

-- Ryan

I sent a few cards the last few months of the year - they werent returned, so I'm taking that as a good sign. Miss her too. Keep sending hugs in the vermont direction.

I should put away my holiday decorations.....but I'm still enjoying them......(I put a bunch away, but not all) I just added my Valentines decor to them....LOL

I didn’t see this post yesterday. I posted ( not published) stamps for the Letterboxers Cruise to Alaska. The rest of the day, I machine embroidered kitchen towels for this year’s craft fairs. I also read and worked on a puzzle. I should have cleaned the house.

That is a huge goal!! My goal is getting a box in every state. Plus every city/town in Massachusetts.Will be knocking off Louisiana and Alaska this year. Next year Hawaii. I’m getting close in both goals.

My bird feeder has been very busy this weekend. So much fun to watch.

Has anyone tried the thin gray carving material by Motimind on Amazon? I’m wondering about the firmness, and how it holds ink.

https://www.amazon.com/MotiMind-Linoleum-Printmaking-Crafting-Scrapbook/dp/B0DQCYRWMX/ref=mp_s_a_1_40?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3Mc9msQkdZMaQJ-dOc1aCLDFj-efzJfSPgGlAskuFcOE2ltqzOytLxFwTRkQQHCMcU7l4ya7peXIJs5tdguV-Ju1bklDgfDd1IurNN494mZnTXxtQHjv88cwHRpp5bEqyOWaLqgmB5cpOzpWNW684aZfkXtU1rV31pnDSAcGZw9gtDDpnVZQ96I1qcPVMh_Z11QtZhNfi6NqOo3Z9BAP4A.ERf20mMTopcDILLB1ZjKzoFzkJKnOo6UohelK4sP30c&dib_tag=se&qid=1769436056&refinements=p_89%3AMotiMind&sr=8-40&srs=120958322011&xpid=ImHK-Gq1Srp0f&th=1&psc=1

It is and if I only get to half of the 3,144 currently recognised counties, parishes, buroughs, and regions that the US Census Bureau recognises then I will be happy. Currently I have boxed in 482 counties, and have completed two states (New Hampshire and New Mexico).

That’s incredible! Good luck reaching your goal.