AARRRGGGG!!! My daughter ( moongazer ), the Dreaded Cap'n Yellow Hair, made her dad shark bait (he walked the plank, for those landlubbers out there ) just last night for brushing her teeth before bed! How DARE he cross the Cap'n when she is wearing her Cap'n hat!!!!

LOL!!!! :)

moonshowr

sorry ...we'll keep the socializing on the down low saturday. unless you want to made a gang invasion for this trailboxing?

new blood is on it's way!!!!! ;-p

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Oh, my gosh--we just did this in freezing cold wind and snow over the Thanksgiving weekend. My fingers were screaming OUCH! at me the whole time.

See, ya gotta learn to delegate authority. Catbead and I supervised the excavation of several snowbound letterboxes in Syracuse one day. The Highlander was such a BABY about it, too...all "My fingers are cold" and "Can't we just come back in the spring?". Like I wasn't WATCHING his fingers get cold! Can I BE more supportive? (rolls eyes)

The (filing her nails and supervising is hard WORK!) Sprite & the (ready to replace the snowbound boxes with the Sprite this winter) Highlander

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sorry ...we'll keep the socializing on the down low saturday. unless you want to made a gang invasion for this trailboxing?

new blood is on it's way!!!!! ;-p

No BLEEDING in my house, either! LOL

You KNOW I'm kidding, right? Bring all the talk and new ideas you want...wouldn't be a real WNY meet without the easy banter of friends.

Which reminds me...we GOTTA get Team Dakota out here! I wonder if they know what's up?

I have just found an online site that is the most thorough amazing site for parks , state land, and general points of intertest in western new york I have ever seen. It takes a littleplaying with but the amount of info here is unreal. each place you click then has a bunch of relevant links . There is a veritable gold mine of ideas to place letterboxes. Take a look and tell me what you think.
chadams

What an idiot !!!!!
I forgot to paste the link!
here it is
http://www.classicbuffalo.com/Outdoors.htm
chadams

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You mean.... me? =) I never imagined I'd be so easily forgotten as that. ;o)

No, no, not YOU! We're talking about that one guy, Emerald Turtle or something. The dude that runs AQ! (thumbs disdainfully at Green Tortuga) Get this guy, trying to live off the turtle dude's fame. Get a job, ya bum! ;-)

The (wants to get all inked up with that ever-so-popular kilt wearing guy, wink, wink) Sprite & the (wants to check out the winged girl's logbook,nudge, nudge) Highlander

FORKS - SPOONS - do they let you or could you sneak them out of the cafeteria? or do we have to decide on carving or eating? could be new fad diet what shall we call it - carve crazy?

Whoo, I am WAY late on this thread,huh? Darn, and I made my hubby throw all of his old contact thingys away after he had lasik!

We just switched over to new cell phones, and I'm keeping the old one for a "distracttion" when we go boxing. That way, I can throw my old one ( whoops, I tripped and it flew out of my hand and landed somewhere in these bushes! ) without worry!

moonshowr

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I bought my ETrex over the summer, and it did NOT come with the cable. I just imput my coords and such the old fashioned way...

Take it from somebody who USED to do that: Quit it. Make yourself a data cable and start downloading the waypoints directly to the Garmin -- before you wear out the buttons on that thing.

Who's finished their 50,000 word book? =)

I contributed about 20,000 words to my AT book, but I wasn't planning to finish it this month either. I'm just past Hot Springs (that's North Carolina) and on my way to Erwin (that's in Tennessee). The pace is picking up, though. =)

-- Ryan

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Who's finished their 50,000 word book? =)

Hey, I still have 2 hours, 18 minutes left! Don't rush me!

Let's see... I'm sitting at roughly 19,000 words... hmmmmm... I wonder if I should just cut-and-paste all those darn "Two-Guys" posts into my book?
-wassamatta_u

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Happy to be able to give you something to do on your Sunday morning besides watch Robert Tilton! :-P

Whoa, is he still around? I thought he closed up Six Flags over Jesus years ago (okay, we called it that because the big sign in Carrollton, TX where he had his "ministry" had these big multicolored strips on it, not out of disrespect for God, just Tilton-A -Whirl)

So THIS is the way you've made it to 300 plus boxes! I should have known I was missing something.

Thanks for the laugh--PP

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Whoa, is he still around? I thought he closed up Six Flags over Jesus years ago (okay, we called it that because the big sign in Carrollton, TX where he had his "ministry" had these big multicolored strips on it, not out of disrespect for God, just Tilton-A -Whirl)

I love that you came up with this name! I've always been uncomfortable with those very commercialized religious theme parks.

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"But, I don't think I have yet seen a movie do any book justice. Have you?"

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and the movie by Hitchcock-definitely movie as good as the book

spring and snake

Both the book and movie of this story are favorites with me. I did, however, think that the book was much creepier. As I recall (haven't read the book since I was a teen), I found the movie did a better job on the love story. So it was a case of liking each one for itself, which is always nice.

I also think that the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice was wonderful. I only wish that they could have cast Rosamund Pike (who was in the newer version) as Jane in the A&E version. The actress they did cast for Jane in that version wasn't bad, but I felt that Rosamund Pike did a smashing job as Jane.

Don't think that I've seen anyone play Elizabeth Bennett well enough, though. But then, those are hard shoes to fill.

"On our letterboxes, we put it right up there: THIS IS NOT GARBAGE!! THIS IS NOT A GEOCACHE!!"

LOL! I have taken to writing on the lid:

"Neither trash, nor geocache!"

I need another line or two to make this an official poem...

I know of two me and my brother. let the teenage letterboxing rebellion begin

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Now how do we flag this for Ryan to read and consider, seeing as, as far as I know, he does not have kids, so would not have any real reason to peruse this particular board??

A good point is made here. I was totally oblivious to this thread about having a teen board until someone brought it to my attention, and now there is one. *nodding*

I loved the ladybug story too. =)

-- Ryan

Is that the Miller Beer logo on one side and 1 of 4 corners of a 4 part stamp?

I'm not feeling all that original tonight - which is unusual for me, I can usually play with words. I'm SURE others will come up with some lightbulbs for ya, here's what I've got.

Although this site (http://www.rhymezone.com) doesn't have "geocaching", "geocache" or "cache" in it's system I note that that the following possibilies DO show up:

Rehash (ing)

Diaper Rash (ing)

(poor) White Trash (ing)

Hot Flash (ing)

And my personal fave: SKIN RASH (ing) muuuuuuuuuwaaaaaaa This I COULD ....Work With!

preboxed

You know, the POW's in Germany carved fake Nazi seals out of the hard rubber shoe heels.

Shiloh

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Is it cheating if you find the "back door" to a letterbox instead of following the clues?

How can you cheat if there aren't any rules? :o)

Janet, Blooming Flowers (ducking and swaying to avoid the rotten tomatos being thrown at her)

The only one beign *cheated* is the finder. By that I mean they are (maybe)missing something the planter wanted them to see. There was one box here where the clues led you on a hiking trail and once you got to the box you discovered you could have parked within 100 yards of it but you would have missed some great views of the valley.

Shiloh

(((moonduck)))

That's three fat hugs for you. If you need more, just let me know.

Janet, Blooming Flowers

Could I have made that sentence any longer?

Shiloh :)

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"BIG MISTAKE, BIG MISTAKE, HUGE"
<dang Ryan, there is NO way to make letters BIGGER????>

Like this?

I came across this by accident the other day. First time I tried it. It's in:
http://www.atlasquest.com/boards/help.html

under headings. You can do the following. Just take the spaces out to make it work. The 1 is the biggest heading and it goes down to 6 being the littlest. I think.

< h1 > Like this? < /h1 >

Don't forget to take out the spaces.

Janet, Blooming Flowers

I'm sure this has been thought of, done, and discussed before, but the idea is new to me. We were sitting at the table tonight playing a board game and I was using my son's new christmas pencil. It had this cute little snowman eraser on it,
sort of like these:

http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?namespace=browse&origin=searchMain.jsp&event=link.itemDetails&demandPrefix=12&sku=9/62&mode=Searching&erec=5&D=christmas%2Berasers&Ntt=christmas%2Berasers&Ntk=all&Dx=mode%252bmatchallpartial&Ntx=mode%252bmatchallpartial&y=0&N=0&x=0&sd=HOLIDAY+ERASERS+%285DZ%29

It dawned on me that it would make a cute stamp, and it's carvable....so the next thing I hear is, "Mom, you are cutting up my new eraser!!" I couldn't help myself. I told him I'd go buy him a new one tomorrow, while I'm buying several to carve up! Actually, I think I'll let the kids carve them. All they'll have to do is carve around the existing design on the eraser. The thing held ink very well, and made a very nice image. Perfect for kids.

hey wassa...your bok is about a blogger... he could have put the jokes in his blog... go ahead and take the credit.

I thought about doing the same, but I couldn't see Quibell sitting around the campfire with the desert nomads exchanging two guys jokes about things that don't even exist in their world... laptops, PZ Cut, Altoids Tins, koosh balls... it wouldn't wash at all!


....so I had to do it the hard way :-)

***doing the happy dance, because I winned!***

night writer

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Could I have made that sentence any longer?

Worked for me!

Janet, Blooming Flowers