I'm so grateful both of you are OK!
Thank you God for our friends well being!!!
Cars can be replaced , but neither of you can be....
Love you Seekers

Postals, LTCs? Just until the weather cools off and you feel better about maybe planting better boxes to show them how its done, or have a get together to give some ideas, tips, and inspiration?
I have the same problem right now with the weather, an unexcited 7 year old, and a sea of new litterboxers.

My guess is you're saturated. You've found over 600 boxes in just over a year. That's a LOT of boxing!

Take a break. Take an entire month off, and look for some real challenges to tackle when you come back - long hikes, mysteries, etc. Leave the thespian at home and take a friend instead.

You live in an area that has an abundance of boxes. Where boxes are more scarce, it really is a treat to get out once or twice a month for a good hunt.

I kind of scrapbook my pages, like I said, 'kinda.' I take an 8.5" x 11" pieceof paper and fold it in half, use brads to attach the paper I stamped on and put the clues and pictures in the fold of the paper. One piece of paper has a 'find' on each side. Hope that isn't cornfusin'!

Cindy, where can I find "box of the month?" Is this something new?

Friends, Thank you for all of your kind remarks.
Yes, we , and all involved were lucky. Property damage can be easily fixed !!
People damage, not so easy !

I have uploaded a few pictures onto the event page. We weren't there long, so I don't have as many as usual !

http://www.atlasquest.com/gallery/slideshow.html?gAlbumId=2309&gSortBy=newest

Thanks again to our hosts !!

Dina B. & Charlie

My error! NOt box of the month! "The Music Never Stopped" is the AQ "Box of the Week". It is a widget you can add to your home page if you haven't already!

I take an 8.5" x 11" pieceof paper and fold it in half, use brads to attach the paper I stamped on and put the clues and pictures in the fold of the paper.

I would love to see this Please bring your logbook to the Riverside gathering! I scrapbook mine much more traditionally--I'll bring one to share also :)

Thanks!

The heat has been awful..... but we LOVE your boxes! Take a break if you need to, and come back soon!

I kind of went through that last year. I box with my family and there are six of us. It became a fight to get everyone willing to go.

Some ideas that might help:

1) focus on finding stamps by either carvers whose work you really admire, or by people here on AQ that you like and respect (this might be harder for you since you have a lot more finds than I do).

2) Try a different aspect of letterboxing. I know you do some ltc's, but maybe doing postals or more ltc swaps would help. We were in NY and there were so many boxes to find, but we've just moved to Louisiana where there are less boxes and now I find I'm brimming with ideas for boxes to plant and my enthusiasm is much higher again.

3) I know you carve and plant wild plants that can be foraged. Maybe you need to branch out and carve (and plant) something different.

4) take a small break. Continue to read the boards though.

((hugs))
dancing pecan

I know exactly what you are saying. My issue is that there are not a lot of boxers where I live so the boxes I plant have been sitting there for months without a hit. And there are not many boxes nearby to go find because there are few boxers. I do the same as you and visit AQ every day, hoping for a hit. I carve every day, creating more and more boxes, with no place to hide them and nobody to find them when I do. It's very disheartening!

BUT, I live for vacations when I can use my explorer's tools and plant boxes in newly discovered lands. I may start looking for planters who need handcarved stamps... and have a place to plant them.

Brings up more than 25 pages of watched boxes, none of which I've ever heard of.

It brings up a list of exactly 25 pages, but hardly every box on AQ. I wonder how it builds the list? Many of the entries are retired boxes. All are spread throughout the US... not how I would expect my watched box list to look if I ever had a notion that it existed.

That's wicked, Seagull!! Congrats!

Minowa

OMG, send your boxes to me! LOL! I have so many ideas in my head for plants, but my carving ability is little to nil, so I don't do them. I'd love to get with someone who likes to carve and combine my ideas with their carves to get some boxes out there.

I have the same problems as already stated. Not a lot of boxers in this area, altho I am trying to rectify that; and my 11 year old has lost interest. So, I have to drag him around, listening to his "attitude" the whole time.

Send me your ideas and I'll see what I can do. I love to carve, but the places to hide here are kind-of limited because all the parks and open areas are well manicured and all the parks that are wild are VERY wild. Plus, why plant when it could be months/years before someone looks?

Today's Denver Post includes an article on letterboxing featuring interviews with a few of our local letterboxers:

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_15649551

Letterboxing newbies take heart; the "elitism" that the article mentions is certainly not widespread!

a.

It was either smoked salmon or Kodiak Bears. i brought the bears.

I love bears!!! :)

-gollygee

I've done very little boxing in the summer. Too hot, muggy, and buggy! And taking kids can at times suck all the fun out of it. Quite frankly, I do a lot of my boxing alone to escape the kids! Like this morning - I went when everyone was still asleep.

I just received some good news but will wait a while before relaying it what with all the ups and downs that seem to swing in every 8 hours of so. I sent word to Sandy to tell him to quit jerking us around and get well!

i brought the bears.

KEEP THE BEARS AWAY FROM TEAM MUDCUP!!!!

Ray
Happydaze

Most wonderful! Finally, after six years at this!

Mama Wolf's Snipe Hunt allowed me to hit F500 yesterday. In addition to hitting 500, I tried to hit her but she's too fast. :-)

Love ya, Wolfie! Thanks for a great hunt!

Knit Wit

CONGRATULATIONS on the GREEN Ribbon !!!!
WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!

tell him to quit jerking us around and get well!

If what they say is true, and laughter really IS the best medicine.... with this crew, his chances of getting well are good !!!

Thoughts and Prayers for coffee mug & granny butterfly !!

Dina B. & Charlie

Being disenchanted at times will not make you less of a letterboxer. If you take a break, have no fear... you WILL be pulled back into the letterboxing vortex.

I think many of us have walked away for a while, not because we don't love letterboxing, but because it's just not a good time. I've had to redefine how I letterbox many times, because when I started I had one toddler, and now I have four kids (youngest is 2). Kids can make it difficult, sometimes not worth the fight. At times like these, I don't worry about quantity, I focus on what will be enjoyable and memorable.

-Quiet Place

Just having a whining 5 year old was enough to burn me out. I took a break for a few months, then when I got out I went with friends I found on AQ insted of with my family or alone. then it got to the point my family were begging me to take them with me and we are all good now. Funny, 6 months ago my 5 year old was begging me to take her to a nature trail where we don't have to find a box. so I did that, we walked, taking any direction she wanted and quit when she was done... I think it helped her start to enjoy being out again, she didn't need the prize at the end of the trail, the trail was her prize. What a good feeling, after all that what this was all about to start with.

As an aside to Pre's message about the Yahoo group - yes, there are some folks (some Colorado Spring folks, too!) who hang out there more than at AQ, but I also think you'll find that the Colorado folks just aren't a hugely chatty group online. The Yahoo group is even (in my opinion) quieter than the AQ boards.

One recommendation for you to find other nearby boxers is to look at the clues for C Springs boxes, see who planted the box, click on their profile and see if they list C Springs as their locale! Then just send them AQ mail introducing yourself. :)

I've done that many times, and have "met" many great boxers that way.
Cheers, and welcome to the Rockies!

Kat / Autumnsfolly
(up in Boulder if you're ever this far north!)

I'm glad you both are ok and still have your sense of humor...

Storm Rider,
That is one thing that you will never have to worry about with Charlie and me. Our sense of humor is so much a part of who we are, it's always there.

I have been through many times in my life when my sense of humor was all I had to keep me going. I have found over the rough times.... that it's easier to keep the faith and believe that things are going to get better.... if you can find a little humor in even the direst of circumstances.

Yesterday, shortly after the accident, while acessing damage after the law was called.....
I grinned and said "Well, Goofy Girl wasn't AT the event, but it seems that she is here in spirt anyway!"..........
(Last year's mishap with Goofy Girl was on the way TO an Event.... this time it was on the way home from one !)

1. Do you see Sookie's ability to read minds as a strength or a disability? Would you want to be able to read minds?
I would like to read minds but only if I had complete control over that ability and could turn it on and off. Poor Sookie gets assaulted all the time.

2. Why do you think Sookie was so immediately attracted to Bill?
Because his thoughts were silent to her.

3. Who do you think is a better match for Sookie, Bill or Sam?
Sam because he's got a heartbeat and will have a similar length of life to Sookie's. And, he's an overall good guy.

4. Do you think Sookie's deal with Eric will come back to haunt her?
Hmmm, I've read the whole series and can't remember the deal from the first novel. Sorry.

5. If you have read other vampire books, how does Dead Until Dark compare?
I've read several vampire series. Anne Rice's were the original ones I read and I loved them at the time. (It was LONG ago.) They were suspenseful and sexy and fairly dark as I remember. Then, I read the Twilight series and LOVED the stories but they are not your typical vampire novels. Then, someone handed me my first Sookie book and these are the most lighthearted and fun of all the vampire books I've read....also sexy and suspenseful but fun/silly too. I've also read The House of Night books and they are creative and suspenseful if you can get past all the teen lingo and stupid protagonist. They're YA but are for older teens than the Twilight series due to the sex. I can't pick a favorite series but they all have their merits IMO. I'm not really interested in any more vampire series, though.

You know, SS, the Foragers have a blue diamond box in our area. Maybe what they need is a road trip to find it and a gathering to give them some good old Michigan hospitality?

p