To have the ability to add that information would defeat the purpose of the box being unlisted in the first place.

Maybe that's true in some cases, but for the vast majority of my unlisted finds, they're unlisted on AQ only because the planter uses LbNA exclusively, or because they're hybrids listed on geocaching.com.

In any case, part of the previous poster's point is that the ?????? is kind of obnoxious. Why not a single ? or even n/a?

Well I am finally home... no Goodwill stores or thrift shops were open but I did get some boney stickers at a dollar store and hit one yard sale and then stopped by the Akron area to watch a few fireworks they must have been having to help me celebrate a great ending to a wonderful family reunion!

I had a wicked nice time as usual and the COFFEE MUG INN was the greatest. I now have a license plate frame too! Granny Butterfly and Coffee Mug are the best aren't they? I can't wait to come back in the fall and see all the colored leaves. We had so much fun! My cheeks are still sore from all the smilin'. I have a million stories, have I told you the one about the foot long hot dog at the cemetery? Or what "This is only a test" means (ALEX!). I still can't believe I am ALMOST as tall as Snapdragons Dad! And we found ANDREW JACKSON's consort at the pioneer cemetery! All this and Pepsi for breakfast! What could be better.

You guys are all the greatest bunch. Best thing about OUR family reunions are we all love each other.

Spirit Seeker and I may get together for a little haunting event at a real haunted place, in the future, at night... By then I should be able to get a few ghost stories together for the kiddies!

Hey I better get to bed, I've gotta a big day ahead of me tomorrow, eh today, trying to unpack the car and log all those boxes. The hiking was simply amazing and the company was incredible. And the after hours events were hilarious!

And did SM have ESP when he brought that burlap sack or did he see that I had a new box called Bone Yard's worst fear...

Oh yes and Athena had a great time to. She was a little shy when that big old Pioneer Spirit crawled into the backseat with her, and she was speechless all the way home, but she can't wait to go again, maybe she will even dress up for the "SHOT" event, unless Granny steals her hair again and goes as Miss Piggy!

Man, why did my camera go on the fritz???

Love you all!

Bone Yard Recorder

HELP! :O)

I have seen this done before, so I know that is can be done, I just can't figure out how, so maybe I doing something incorrectly.

My Girl Scout troop is hosting a postal ring that will actually contain a bunch of series'... I have created a "test series" that I was hoping to list in the tracker to show how we would like the boxes to be listed.

However, when i try to add the series to the tracker, it will only let me list 1 of the boxes, not all of them as the series... I know that I was in another tracker where the box listed was the series, when you clicked the link, ygot both boxes in the series... How can I do this?

I'm sorry if that doesn't make sense. Please let me know if there is another way I can better explain it. I am very confused by this, lol.

where is Septembers box??????

It's comin', it's comin'!

hang in there!

:-)

I was unable to pull up the team page and the here links. Is it just me?

Janet

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Sorry.... I actually just figured it out....

LEave it to me, I tried fa long time and couldn't get it... Post it and then say "I'll try one more time" and then figure it out myself, lol.

Thanks :O)

i see my post had been deleted!
funny considering the posts posted prior to mine have been deletable!

David (Team New Hampshire)
http://teamnewhampshire.blogspot.com

I'm sorry this is so late, but I had to go straight to my mom's after the event and she has no internet at her house.....

Thank you, Dina!!!! The Ballyhoo was fabulous and I really appreciate all of the work and thought you put into it! I had a great time. :D Thank you to everyone else who was there, too!!! I was glad to see everyone and meet some letterboxers I hadn't met before. And thank you to Mama Wolf, Turtlelove, oceanwinds and 4GC for the LTCs. Letterboxers are so cool. :D

whose 3-year anniversary of finding her first box is tomorrow, Labor Day, and thankful to report no major incidents, just a few heart stoppers

Nuh-uh!!! So's ours -- actually the 3rd of September, but that's Wednesday, so I'll have to go it alone that day...

Happy Anniversary!

*S

I don't know about the rest of California but today has been cold! Last week, in Susanville, we were low nineties. Now in the sixties. I thought about taking the children to a lake but it was way too cold. Strange!

slick kitty

Thank you :-)

Did you break 'em out by date received? If not, it'll be funny to look back at your online log in a couple years to the time you logged 350 finds in one day.

I did my best to log them for the real day that I found them! (I was keeping my spreadsheet updated to make it was easier to log them properly) So, no my find log doesn't look that weird. It really only went up about 100 cards today, because about 2/3 were actually already logged through the quickie swap board logging thingamabob. But I still had to send notes to the creators, so I counted those in my "unlogged card count", even though technically, they were logged. I could have taken the easy way out and not sent personal notes, but I like to contact people about their cards. I know how much I like to receive comments, so I try to do that myself, too. =)

Hey that's so cool *S.

I count mine as "Labor Day Monday" regardless of what date it falls on, with the added advantage of always being able to go boxing that day, 'cause that's when I started.

Happy Anniversary back at ya!

pre :-)

who now has 2 trailname Anniversary Buddies

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What did you post?

she has no internet at her house.....

My parents have Dial Up and you can say they don't either. Honestly 20 mins to load AQ sometimes. Geezs

You are so welcome for the LTC...

That's so neat! We make a time line each school year and our family is big on biographies! Maybe we will be able to study Sarah Palin and the author! I will talk with my husband about this. Tell your sister way to go for us!

7trailwanderers

I received a couple of comments from you and they are much appreciated. Congrats on your accomplishment.

~ pW

I would welcome the sixties these days. We are in farm country where the heat along with the dust from harvesting is starting to get irritating. Love the farmers but not the dust.

Maybe we will be able to study Sarah Palin and the author!

Just so long as you don't delve too deep into the author's infamous sister's life. You would have to save that for the grown ups. LOL! Thanks- we 're so happy for her.

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I would welcome the sixties these days.

I would have to agree. We are in the 90's for the next week. Yuck. Just in time to go back to school and be stuck on a hot school bus.

~Aurora

We have a lot of dust here too! More ranches though, than farmers. But "hay" Farmers Feed America! ;o)

And that's always a good thing!

slick kitty

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Glad I got the August stamp in time, thanks for the reminder. Will the Sept stamp be placed 9/1?

i see my post had been deleted!
funny considering the posts posted prior to mine have been deletable!

Your post was borderline, and one of the moderators seems to think it crossed the line and deleted it. It started off well, but you started ranting and becoming the very thing you were ranting against.

Also, while I do agree that nearly all of King T's posts are rather pointless and annoying, that is not against the rules for these message boards--especially when they're posted on the Yakking It Up board. It's kind of hard to get off topic "yakking it up." So those posts have not been deleted.

A couple of his posts that have gone too far have been deleted, and he has been warned to watch himself in the future.

But I'm not banning him or deleting his posts just because you find him annoying. That's what the "ignore member" button is for. Use it. Seriously. That's what it's for. I will delete his posts and freeze his account if he chooses not follow the terms of service in the future, but generally annoying and pointless posts is not a bannable offense.

-- Ryan

I have a great big sheet of 1/4" thick black acrylic that I bought many years ago for a project and then ended up not using it. The stuff looks like black glass; in fact acrylic is also called plexiglas, and one common use is as a replacement for glass. It is really beautiful stuff. In fact, it comes with a layer of paper bonded to both sides to keep it from getting scratched. After you saw, drill, whatever, you peel the paper off to reveal this beautiful deep gloss finish.

The stuff is really hard as plastic goes. Cutting through the stuff with a hand saw takes perhaps twice as long as it would take to cut through oak -- which in turn takes about three times as long as cutting through pine.

Anyhow, I've got no real use for all this acrylic, and it's pretty, so I've been using it to back stamps. It's perfect for the job, although I suspect most people that find one of these stamps will scarcely notice the beautiful acrylic backing.

The thing is, though, that gluing to that shiny surface is not likely to work well. So, on the side that the foam bonds to, I've been sanding it up with sandpaper. Works fine. On the other side I will be gluing an oak handle, and that requires a more secure bond. So besides the sanding, I've been using my Dremel to chop a few nasty gouges in the surface to give the Gorilla Glue something to grab ahold of.

So the other night I'm preparing one of these pieces, and I'm not feeling too energetic about getting the Dremel out and a suitable bit chucked up. But hey, my Speedball #1 gouge is laying right here. I wonder if I can make any decent scratches in such hard plastic with it?

Well, folks, you simply wouldn't believe it. That gouge zips a little groove across the surface of that hard plastic just as easily -- heck, more easily -- than it digs a groove in rubber. Little tiny hard plastic threads peeling out. In a matter of seconds I had a nice little crosshatch pattern cut in the surface of the plastic, all ready for the glue.

Now I'm actually thinking about whether one could make a stamp outta this stuff. It's totally rigid, but for the upside-down method of stamping -- lay the stamp down face up, apply ink, then apply paper -- it might just work fine. Of course, this stuff being black would make it really difficult to see an image on it for carving. But you can cut really fine grooves in it, finer than you're likely to get in rubber. And it's durable.

Now I'm actually thinking about whether one could make a stamp outta this stuff.... Of course, this stuff being black would make it really difficult to see an image on it for carving

Very interesting... What if you leave the paper on while carving and remove it once you're done? That may help visibility...

Just a thought,
HPL
*who can't seem to get to sleep tonight... grrr.*

I wish your business was closer ;)

Do you know anybody you recommend in the Seattle area?

Mariette

Farmers Feed America...

Farming is everybody's bread and butter

=0)

So... I was searching the internet looking for places to buy a new gouge set, and stumbled across this website. I'm not sure if any AQ members wrote it, but it's loaded with tonnes of tips for people looking for info on the various tools for stamp carving. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, they also include links to pages on selecting an image, transferring, carving, etc.

Just wanted to share,
HPL :o)

Be careful of "free downloads". One of our reporters just did a story about some college students getting hit with fees/fines some amounting to $3000 because they thought they were getting free music. From what I understand the artists get pennies per song but the record companies dang sure want their cut.

Shiloh

Does anyone know just how many boxes there will be at L&B? I want to start preparing!

A unit of measure I sometimes use is gobo. Pronounced gob-oh...as in a gob of. A slightly smaller unit is loto.

Shiloh