Thanks guys for your kind reviews of the R, D&L event. We had a ton of fun planning it! In case you haven't checked back on the photo's there are a few new ones, posted by Sewsobizzy, tho she didn't include Her Maj as a Red Hat inductee! You'll have to look on the LBMA board for the rest. Happy trails & come again! More boxes will be waiting....Norasta

http://www.atlasquest.com/gallery/viewalbum.html?gAlbumId=8

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I'm not saying i'll have time to do such a thing while we're there, but if i did plant a box would someone adopt it for maintenance? I'm not real big on leaving something that's going to turn into trash.

If nobody else is closer/willing, I'll keep an eye on it for you.

-CQ

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We're going up to Niagara-on-the-Lake at the end of June. There are some boxes on the New York side of the river but none listed on the Ontario side. I see that there are plenty of geocaches, though, so i guess this type of thing is not forbidden by the authorities.

Some parks have guidelines, require permits or have bans on geocaching. See the Ontario Geocaching Association's, Current Cache Placement Policies
http://www.ontgeocaching.com/oga-policies.htm
for Parks Canada, Ontario Parks and Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority guidelines. The guidelines may also apply to letterboxes.

Letterboxing is growing but hasn't attracted the numbers like geocaching has. Within 150km of Toronto there are just over 80 letterboxes. Within 80km of Toronto there are just over 1700 geocaches. The closest letterbox to Niagara-on-the-Lake would be Tiger Swallowtail in Caledonia but that's 75 kms away as-the-crow-flies.

Niagara-on-the-Lake is too far for me to maintain a letterbox but you might find someone if you ask at the Ontario letterboxing group on Yahoo:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/letterbox_ON/

Niagara-on-the-Lake is a beautiful place, I'm sure you'll enjoy it and I doubt you'll get extradited if you're caught playing hide n seek with tupperware (but I'm no lawyer ;) ).

Why...yes we are looking at those FunHog. :-)

Big thanks for the nudge though-- those are sometimes overlooked!! LOL



GreyCrazy

I remember these! I absolutely loved them! I checked with my library system but they don't seem to carry them. :( I wish they had them so my kids could enjoy them as much as I did (I was in college when I saw them) Perhaps I will look by individual titles.

Padfoot Treehuggers :)

P.S. ~ The narration on 'How The Leopard Got His Spots' was Danny Glover ... the Rudyard Kipling stories were my faves. ;D

SHH, what we have here is Queen Anne's Lace. It looks similiar but doesn't get as big, and doesn't cause the damage this stuff does.

Maiden

OK, I take it back. that's what I get for answering before reading all of the posts. According to the web site LW posted, we do have it here. Thank you for posting that. Something else to watch out for out there!

Maiden

Ill prob move Sharon memorial since it kinda in the open.And the service is in May.Ill post date next year .Ill try to go boxing sometime soon =l

Okay ya'll - the So Hill Hendersons have already hooked me up with two boxes and a hitch hiker.

SunFleur is hooking me up with a box because now she's back from vacation.

Thunderbird is sending Cotton Eye Joe to be planted in Kville.

BusterBunnyLBX has sent his/her box already and I should have it any day.

Maiden is going to try to get one to me before leaving.

ANYONE ELSE????

YOU get the credit for these boxes - just put me as the planter of the box here at AQ. You'll be the carver and the clue writer (although I'll actually write the clues and you can encrypt them and tweek them however you wish). I will take care of your box for you and if you request it back I will be sure that happens.

Knoxville has boxes but I'm a PacNW LBer and nothing beats what we have here.

Come On folks.....I'm begging.....really.....trust me.....

LILY
letterboxinglily@yahoo.com

Totally correct.

Upon the advice of two seasoned boxing vetrans, I've moved my Gabriel Weathervane letterbox in Newburyport, MA.
Seems the park it was in is private but allows the public to visit. I've opted to move it to a safer spot nearby. I've made the corrections to the clues so please ignore clues that may have been printed prior to May 31rst. Thanks Limur and Pansey for the heads up!

Take care, Orion

In the 25 miles from my house (near Parkwood, technically part of Durham), i have 36 letterboxes (as per AtlasQuest search) and about 1000 geocaches. Some of these geocachers have to be interested in letterboxing, don't they?

I just had this idea of a letterboxing/geocaching hybrid event, where geocachers could learn about letterboxing from letterboxers and vice versa. Or maybe it would just be letterboxing school for geocachers, but then i don't know if i could list it as an official geocaching event, which might affect the geocaching turnout.

My idea was to make it a workshop where everyone could leave with a signature stamp that they made and maybe 10 people or so could leave with some blank erasers and carving tools (and hopefully an itch to plant some new boxes).

Having some boxes planted nearby for people to find during the event would be cool too. And on the flip side, maybe some letterboxers would like to see what it's like to find a slightly different kind of box while looking at an electronic instrument for guidance.

Has anyone tried something like this before? Would anyone be interested in such an event in the Triangle area? I'm still kind of new to letterboxing, but then again not being a "real" guitar player never stopped me from teaching a few friends and family members what i knew about that. And having been to a few geocaching events around here, i would be fairly comfortable running it on my own, BUT it would be very cool to have "backup" from some of the more experienced letterboxers as well.

OOPS! LOL
These boxes will be planted in the Knoxville, TN area. There are plenty of places to plant. The more and more I look online and in brochures the more and more things I can think of to carve and create but I'd SO love help from the AQ gang!!!


LILY

I am truely sorry.

There were no women in my unit. There are no women in my son's unit. Right or wrong, it is just the way it was and is. That far out front, it just wasn't.

I assure you it isn't that I wish to slight you in any way. It is only that in my mind - you were not there with us.

PLEASE - feel free to kick my male-chovenist non-PC butt at every opportunity! <grin>

Mike.

P.S. Correct my spelling too - as I obviously can't spell it either! <BIG-grin>

Thank you. I had a hard time moving my first box off my work bench and out into the wild. I would learn something new from you in the LB community and delay the plant while I tweaked or refined. I am serious about being sad but also somewhat tongue in cheek about the grieving. I have learned so much from you all and I will try again soon because of the carving thing. I really enjoy that part and I want to get really good at it. I appreciate those of you who shared your experience with missing boxes. And I appreciate (was thrilled) that people came 40 miles or so to find it. Last but not least, I appreciated when finders took the time to write me via AQ to share the finding experience with me. It was fun while it lasted!

You're not that new. This is a wonderful idea! It was recently tried in Chattanooga, TN and proved to be very sucessful. If you'd like to ask the hosts directly, look them up on AQ with the user names Xangxa and Team BearCat. I am sure they can give you tons of helpful advice! Don't forget to post the dates on here. That might be worth a trip home for me! :)

Liz

I know us Tennessean's would enjoy more local boxes! :) I am planning to plant one there in a few weeks before you come Lily. :)

Liz

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SHH, what we have here is Queen Anne's Lace. It looks similiar but doesn't get as big, and doesn't cause the damage this stuff does.

Maiden

Good! Cuz I'm really gettin' freaked out!

~SHH :-)

So, I'm up and chatting with a few people when the subject of Hamlet comes up, via a bad pun on 'the question'.

I continued for a while, and i decided that Hamlet went crazy trying to figure out the clues to a mystery box.

I started with 'To be or not to be figured out, that is the question;'.

it went down from there.
Here's what i've got so far. :D


To be, or not to be figured out, that is the question;
wether 'tis nobler in the box to suffer the slings and insults of better carvers, or to take arms against a wave of newbies...and by opposing scare them? to box: to sleep; no more' and by a sleep to say we end the heart0ache and the thousand natural landmarks that boxing is heir to...'tis a consultation devoutly to be wish'd. To box, to sleep; to sleep: perchance to stamp: ay, there's the rock; For in that sleep of boxing what images may come when we have uncovered this mortal tupperware, must give us time: there's the respect that makes searching of so long life; for who would bear the inkstains and bad impressions of letterboxing, the planter's clues, the proud finder's contumely, the pangs of disgusting Speedy-cut, the server's delay, the insolence of horrid rehiders and the spurns that patient seeker of the unworthy takes, when he himself might his satisfaction make with a backward step?

I'll work on it more later...i can so see this becoming a fun box.

~Jeanette X. Lector

I know there is a box near me with a f-25 restriction on the clue. I just logged my 25th box - my profile page shows 25 finds but I still can't read the clue. What's up? Does the system need time before it registers my finds? Or do mystery boxes not count towards the f-count for restrictions? (I have 24 traditional and 1 mystery)

Thanks,
sahm2girls

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I know there is a box near me with a f-25 restriction on the clue. I just logged my 25th box - my profile page shows 25 finds but I still can't read the clue. What's up? Does the system need time before it registers my finds? Or do mystery boxes not count towards the f-count for restrictions? (I have 24 traditional and 1 mystery)

It should count. I'd guess that the system just needs it's nightly update before it actually registers your latest find.

Try again tomorrow!

-CQ

*taps the inside of the bubble mockingly* Caan't heear yoooou....


No, seriously, I'll be honest. I read the subject of this post and just immediately said, "oh, no" without even reading it yet.

So, yes, CQ, I do remember a vivid nightmare such as the one you describe. Why do you ask you fiendish, fiendish man?!

-Infinity

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*taps the inside of the bubble mockingly* Caan't heear yoooou....


No, seriously, I'll be honest. I read the subject of this post and just immediately said, "oh, no" without even reading it yet.

So, yes, CQ, I do remember a vivid nightmare such as the one you describe. Why do you ask you fiendish, fiendish man?!

Uh...*looks back at recently added non-traditionals and his own logbook*
no reason. none at all.
was just wondering how good your memory is.

yeah, that's it.

-CQ

*in a voice strikingly similar to the Wicked Witch of the West (which, by the way, is a wonderful PLB)*

Ooooh, I'll get you, CQ! Mark my words, *attempting to crawl out from under a massive pile of homework* as soon as I get done with all this stupid homework, you will have a war on your hands! A cootie war, I tell you! *Collapses under the weight of boring texts and half-written papers*

-Infinity

Ok...gotta see it...anyone got a pic or link to see this Hogsweed??
Sounds like something Uncle Hubert woulda grown up in the holler after "sweetening" the soil real good with hog crap. Everybody wanted some of his Hog Weed!!

LOL
*slapping knee*
*belly laughing*

dixiekin

LW had a link on her post earlier in this thread that has some great pix...

~SHH :-)

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*in a voice strikingly similar to the Wicked Witch of the West (which, by the way, is a wonderful PLB)*

Ooooh, I'll get you, CQ! Mark my words, *attempting to crawl out from under a massive pile of homework* as soon as I get done with all this stupid homework, you will have a war on your hands! A cootie war, I tell you! *Collapses under the weight of boring texts and half-written papers*

You'll want to remember that i'm at least 60 ahead of you already, plus another 10 coming in the next few days...and another 14 on the list of things to do cootie-wise after those!

not to mention, all the other cootie-ers that will be making them and aiming for you!

-CQ :D

Hi,

How do you un-ignore a box you've ignored? I am trying to dig one up, but I can't seem to get a search to turn it up no matter what I do, I can't find a list of ignored boxes in my log book, and I can't find a way to unignore.

Thanks!

Thunderbird

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To be, or not to be figured out, that is the question;

Fantastic *clapping*.

Don't forget when you come to working out the directions you could use old measurements like furlongs and cubits etc.

YT

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Don't forget when you come to working out the directions you could use old measurements like furlongs and cubits etc.

Yeah, if she wants to be lynched!
lol...

-CQ