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Board: Letterbox Chatter
Reply to: #935490 by PapaSolo
Sep 27, 2016 1:45pm
My second worst overall letterboxing experience was finding an opened pouch filled with urine, sloshing it all over me :(. Fortunately the inner baggies were sealed well and the stamp and logbook survived.
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Reply to: #935492 by FORAYCH
Sep 27, 2016 2:22pm
Your second worst?? I'm almost too afraid to ask, but what was your worst?
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Reply to: #935495 by kudichan
Sep 27, 2016 2:41pm
I have been fortunate as people have had serious injuries, etc. while boxing, so my 'worsts' are relative, but yeah, the lack of having gloves gets worse... http://www.atlasquest.com/boards/messages.html?gStartId=690229;gThreadId=99843
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Reply to: #935455 by Rocklun
Sep 27, 2016 3:43pm
I'm thinking Breakfast at Tiffany's...one must wear their best when boxing in public!!
Yosemite
(But I carry a cheap pair of gardening gloves. And never put my hand where I can't see first!)
Yosemite
(But I carry a cheap pair of gardening gloves. And never put my hand where I can't see first!)
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Reply to: #935485 by KuKu
Sep 27, 2016 4:07pm
Mostly Utah, but also Wyoming, Arizona, and Nevada. :^)
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Reply to: #935492 by FORAYCH
Sep 27, 2016 4:16pm
Note to self: Whenever I do finally manage to cross Foraych off my letterboxing stalker list, be sure to pack a hazmat suit ...
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Reply to: #935455 by Rocklun
Sep 27, 2016 5:02pm
I have a leather glove in my backpack… not that I use it very often. A stick or hiking pole is good too. Now what makes you think you don't have rattlesnakes, black widows, brown recluse and copperheads. They all reside in Massachusetts. Not to mention squirrels, mice, rats etc. that live in hidy holes. I don't want to be bit by any wild animal.
Old Blue
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Reply to: #935497 by FORAYCH
Sep 27, 2016 5:03pm
With the mental image I got of a pouch filled with pee sloshing around, I had this feeling your worst involved poo. I guess sometimes #1 and #2 are non-sequential.
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Reply to: #935501 by Team Awesome Pants
Sep 27, 2016 8:29pm
Lol! The hazmat suit probably isn't a bad idea if we are hitting the trails...i find all the weird stuff (my #3 grossest box was one that a beaver died on top of - probably three days before I found it -stinky and bloated!).
I do look forward to meeting at some point too.
Jeff
I do look forward to meeting at some point too.
Jeff
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Reply to: #935464 by Sunia
Sep 27, 2016 9:04pm
Now we know why Michael Jackson only wore one glove. ;-)
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Reply to: #935500 by Rocklun
Sep 27, 2016 9:08pm
Let us know when and where. We'd like to meet you.
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Reply to: #935455 by Rocklun
Sep 28, 2016 5:45am
I usually try to keep a pair of gardening gloves (leather and canvas) in my boxing bag, just in case. I haven't needed them too often, but I've been glad I had them when I did.
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Reply to: #935482 by Wry Me
Sep 28, 2016 9:48am
It's good to be useful :-)
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Reply to: #935500 by Rocklun
Sep 28, 2016 1:23pm
Oh pooh.
KuKu
KuKu
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Reply to: #935492 by FORAYCH
Sep 28, 2016 1:59pm
Evalenne, Red Fox and I were boxing a few years ago at a park.
Red Fox came out of the bathroom holding the wet clues. He had accidentally dropped them in the toilet before flushing. He rinsed them off as best he could but had to hold the clues for the rest of the boxes and I had to log in for him.
Evalenne and I called him Potty Hands for the rest of the day.
Fast forward to this last July. Red Fox and I are at the courthouse and we have just gotten our marriage license.
Before we leave, he needs to use the bathroom, so I took the envelope with the license from him. He said, "Yes, I don't want to be Potty Hands again with that."
KuKu
Red Fox came out of the bathroom holding the wet clues. He had accidentally dropped them in the toilet before flushing. He rinsed them off as best he could but had to hold the clues for the rest of the boxes and I had to log in for him.
Evalenne and I called him Potty Hands for the rest of the day.
Fast forward to this last July. Red Fox and I are at the courthouse and we have just gotten our marriage license.
Before we leave, he needs to use the bathroom, so I took the envelope with the license from him. He said, "Yes, I don't want to be Potty Hands again with that."
KuKu
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Reply to: #935553 by KuKu
Sep 28, 2016 2:05pm
Congrats, KuKu!
Yosemite
Yosemite
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Reply to: #935484 by Mim
Sep 28, 2016 3:34pm
Thanks, Mim! This is what I'm afraid of doing!!
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Reply to: #935516 by Oberon_Kenobi
Sep 28, 2016 3:37pm
Thank you! I don't know if we'll have time, though. We're traveling from SLC to Vegas for 10 days, hitting 4 of the 5 Utah National Parks, along with some other sights. Our schedule is pretty crazy!
We'll be in SLC tomorrow. :^)
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Reply to: #935502 by DoubleSaj and Old Blue
Sep 28, 2016 3:39pm
We do have poisonous critters in MA, but you'd have to work pretty hard to find them, unlike in other parts of the country! The things I worry about most here are ticks, stinging insects, and poison ivy.
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Reply to: #935487 by Wise Wanderer
Sep 28, 2016 3:41pm
Excellent pointers, WW!
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Reply to: #935563 by Rocklun
Sep 28, 2016 4:57pm
Our poison ivy may look a little different than what you have in the NE. It's three shiny leaves are usually at the top of a single stalk about 1-2 feet tall. The best way I think to identify it is that the terminal leaf extends from it's own petiole which is about 1/2 inch long. The two leaves below the terminal leaf come out on opposite sides of the stem and do not have the 1/2 long petiole.
It's fall here in northern UT and the p.i. is turning bright red - pretty easy to spot. But I don't know if it turns red in southern UT. Oh, and it can produce white waxy-looking berries in the fall.
I've never seen p.i. here in the hairy vine form that climbs trees, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
There won't be any p.i. in the arid locations (like Arches or Bryce) but look for it anywhere there is water, even a little creek (like in Zion).
Here's a good example.
Here it's turning red in fall.
We also have sumac here in both arid and wetter areas. It should be turning red now, too. I've never tested it to see if it's poison sumac since I react so terribly to p.i.
I would love to meet you. But tomorrow is no good for me. How long will you be in SLC?
It's fall here in northern UT and the p.i. is turning bright red - pretty easy to spot. But I don't know if it turns red in southern UT. Oh, and it can produce white waxy-looking berries in the fall.
I've never seen p.i. here in the hairy vine form that climbs trees, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
There won't be any p.i. in the arid locations (like Arches or Bryce) but look for it anywhere there is water, even a little creek (like in Zion).
Here's a good example.
Here it's turning red in fall.
We also have sumac here in both arid and wetter areas. It should be turning red now, too. I've never tested it to see if it's poison sumac since I react so terribly to p.i.
I would love to meet you. But tomorrow is no good for me. How long will you be in SLC?
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Reply to: #935566 by Boxer Lover47
Sep 28, 2016 6:20pm
Thanks so much for the info! :^)
We'll be in SLC from tomorrow afternoon through early Sunday morning.
We'll be in SLC from tomorrow afternoon through early Sunday morning.
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Reply to: #935568 by Rocklun
Sep 28, 2016 9:38pm
You've got AQmail!
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Reply to: #935566 by Boxer Lover47
Sep 28, 2016 9:47pm
The best way to identify poison ivy is to look for the plants that grow near my boxes. ;-)
Seriously, the very first box that I planted was in a field of poison ivy. Boxer Lover would have been the first to find this box except for the poison ivy. She informed me of the problem. I read up on poison ivy and found that 10% - 15% of people aren't allergic to it. I purposely exposed myself and found I'm not allergic. (I know, people can later develop an allergic reaction to it.) I later went and pulled the poison ivy so that people could safely get to the box.
I've since moved the box so that it is much closer to the trail and away from the poison ivy. You still have to deal with the rose bush though; It's also a muggle deterrent and related to the subject of the box.
I now know how to identify poison ivy, but that didn't stop me from planting another box near it. The poison ivy wasn't growing at the time that I planted that box. Boxer Lover (again) discovered the poison ivy near my box, but it isn't as near to my box. I didn't move my box but I put a warning in my clue for that box.
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Reply to: #935576 by Oberon_Kenobi
Sep 29, 2016 5:05pm
We've got a guy in eastern PA who plants his boxes like that. Vampire boxes, we call 'em....
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Reply to: #935606 by Sheba
Sep 29, 2016 8:21pm
I've only got the one in the rose bush. It fits the theme of the box. But you approach from the side so you don't have to deal with the thorns.
My geocaches, on the other hand, I try to plant in Russian olives. I have about half a dozen in such places.
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Reply to: #935455 by Rocklun
Sep 30, 2016 6:25pm
Pokey Stick
deniserows
advice easily
deniserows
advice easily
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Reply to: #935490 by PapaSolo
Sep 30, 2016 6:27pm
Where's that EEWWWW button!!! We've been asking for it for years
deniserows
yucky things
deniserows
yucky things
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Reply to: #935492 by FORAYCH
Sep 30, 2016 6:28pm
Again....EEEWWW Button please
deniserows
repetitively
deniserows
repetitively
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Reply to: #935497 by FORAYCH
Oct 1, 2016 8:07am
"S**t whisperer"
That's too funny!
That's too funny!