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Wouldn't you know it...
Board: State: Connecticut
Jun 30, 2009 10:35pm
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Wouldn't you know it...
the day I decide not to go letterboxing, but to go biking; I find a letterbox!! LOL
And to top that...
It was a box that was MIA!!
I found Bacon and Eggs CT's Snoopy letterbox!!
Okay, everybody! Let's do the Snoopy's happy dance!!!! :-D

Sally-O
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Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408480 by Sally O
Jul 1, 2009 4:36am
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the day I decide not to go letterboxing, but to go biking; I find a letterbox!!

You are obviously one of those letterboxers with a built in sensor, like a radar scope, that points you right at the hiding place. I have hiked with the likes of you, and marvel at this!!!! LOL

R ~ doing her rendition of a Snoopy happy dance!
Re: Wouldn't you know it...
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408480 by Sally O
Jul 1, 2009 6:36am
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Doing the happy dance with you. It's a great letterboxing day when you find a box everyone thought was missing.

Good Job!!

Celtic Roots
Re: Wouldn't you know it...
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408480 by Sally O
Jul 1, 2009 7:18am
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the day I decide not to go letterboxing, but to go biking; I find a letterbox!! LOL
And to top that...
It was a box that was MIA!!

We would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank Sally-O for finding our missing Snoopy. We searched the area ourselves pretty thoroughly, but found no signs of the missing box. You've made our day. Thank you, thank you!!!!

Bacon and Eggs Ct
( dancing away!!!! )
Re: Wouldn't you know it...
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408579 by Bacon and Eggs
Jul 1, 2009 7:25am
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the day I decide not to go letterboxing, but to go biking; I find a letterbox!! LOL
And to top that...It was a box that was MIA!!

So how did you manage that one? Were you actually looking for it, or just happen to run over it with your bike?

I have a noxer friend who has TWICE stumbled upon letterboxes that I had had great difficulties with. When she mentioned finding these boxes by accident my jaw nearly hit the floor.
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Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408480 by Sally O
Jul 1, 2009 7:53am
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Everyone... a moment of silence to commemorate this serendipitous occasion...

Uh... yeah

BOOM!!

(fires bottlecap cannon)

*S
Re: Wouldn't you know it...
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408579 by Bacon and Eggs
Jul 1, 2009 8:17am
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That's great to hear!

We were boxing once in a new area and our middle daughter (age 5) took off running across the cemetery we were in - opposite of the way we were heading. She had spotted a box in the wall from pretty far away. It was one we didn't have a clue for so it was a very unexpected find!
Re: Wouldn't you know it...
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408598 by MMACJ
Jul 1, 2009 1:31pm
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It's funny how after you have boxed for awhile you start to find the boxes without clues. We found Inspector Bacon's Connecticut Mystery box almost one year before the clues were posted and we weren't the first boxer in the log book. It's fun and crazy how that happens. But it's even more exciting when it's a box that has been missing.

Celtic Roots
Re: Wouldn't you know it...
Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408582 by Trailhead Tessie
Jul 1, 2009 8:56pm
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So how did you manage that one? Were you actually looking for it, or just happen to run over it with your bike?

LOL, we actually stopped for lunch at a bench. And after eating, we explored the new area by the water.
The box was stuck in a hole among the rocks.
My guess is that someone had taken the box home and then bought it back and placed it in the wrong place. There was no way Bacon and Eggs could have missed it if they were searching for it, it was in an obvious location.
It was a nice surprise! I didn't know it was missing until I got home and logged it in and noticed the clues were different. :-D
Now we will have to go back and find the rest of her boxes there! :-D

Sally-O
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Board: State: Connecticut
Reply to: #408589 by BrewHiker
Jul 1, 2009 9:02pm
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BOOM!!

(fires bottlecap cannon)

Now, is that where you twist an empty waterbottle in the middle until the cap pops off?
The middleschool kids have been doing that lately on the bus, until I stop them from doing that. Never knew you can twist a bottle like that. Oh, the things you learn from kids... LOL

Sally-O