There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
I think that there's a place for more than one method of communication.
Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
Giving this group some love
13 messages in this thread |
Started on 2008-12-18
Giving this group some love
From: Lisa Lazar (lazar.bauer@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2008-12-18 16:46:25 UTC
Re: [LbNCA] Giving this group some love
From: Christie Gurney (SJGurneyGirl@gmail.com) |
Date: 2008-12-18 08:48:43 UTC-08:00
I, for one, am proud to be a member of this Yahoo group. I think there is a
definite place for it in our letterboxing lives.
SJ Honey Bunny
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Lisa Lazarwrote:
> There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
>
> I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
>
> I think that there's a place for more than one method of communication.
>
> Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
>
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
definite place for it in our letterboxing lives.
SJ Honey Bunny
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Lisa Lazar
> There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
>
> I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
>
> I think that there's a place for more than one method of communication.
>
> Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
>
>
>
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Re: Giving this group some love
From: Lea Shangraw Fox (princesslea@alamedanet.net) |
Date: 2008-12-18 17:34:22 UTC
Thanks ladies, for your support of this list! I too think that there
is still a place for it in the world of letterboxing. As moderator, I
pledge to revive this neglected medium as sort of an early New Year's
resolution.
Along those lines, here are some ideas I think would be best
implemented herein, rather than on the AQ California board. Several
ideas have come to me from observation of the LB Mid-Atlantic group
(eastern PA, DE). I've gotten to visit their territory a couple of
times in the last 2 years and have been very impressed with what I saw.
They have large parks where all the boxes have the same theme. For
example, Tyler State Park has all musicians (well mostly, there are
some other random boxes there too). They are planted by all different
people and they are scattered all over this large park (think Tilden
Park for size comparison). You can spend DAYS looking for all the
boxes there. There's another one that has all movies.
So one idea I had was to take Tilden Park and do something similar.
The theme I came up with was How Berkeley Are You? I made a short
list of some things that would fall into this category:
Hippies
Cal Bears
Free Speech Movement
Chex Panisse
First Bay architecture (Maybeck, Julia Morgan)
Telegraph Ave
Berkeley Marina
People's Park
Grizzly Peak
Strawberry Creek
Berkeley Rep (!!)
(please make more suggestions)
Of course, I am also interested in hearing about other theme ideas or
locations.
Now, one challenge I see with using Tilden is that I have a suspicion
that the rangers there don't like letterboxes. Mine were yanked by
them long ago. So, we would have to either ask permission beforehand
or never use the name of Tilden Park in the clues, or make them WOM.
I think that by coordinating this effort through the mailing list, we
could keep some semblance of secrecy.
The other thing that came up during the recent Albany luncheon was the
interest in having a carving demo gathering. It would be ideal to
schedule thing during the upcoming rainy season. We had something
similar to this about 4 years ago, hosted at Blackbird's classroom
which was a great spot with lots of room and work tables. Does anyone
have a comparable space that we could use? I am envisioning not only
carving lessons, but how to make logbooks, how to camo tape a box, how
to use AQ, etc. Are people interested?
-- Princess Lea
P.S. If you know of any locals who are not on this list, I can send
them an invitation if I am provided with an email address
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa Lazar" wrote:
>
> There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
>
> I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
>
> I think that there's a place for more than one method of communication.
>
> Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
>
is still a place for it in the world of letterboxing. As moderator, I
pledge to revive this neglected medium as sort of an early New Year's
resolution.
Along those lines, here are some ideas I think would be best
implemented herein, rather than on the AQ California board. Several
ideas have come to me from observation of the LB Mid-Atlantic group
(eastern PA, DE). I've gotten to visit their territory a couple of
times in the last 2 years and have been very impressed with what I saw.
They have large parks where all the boxes have the same theme. For
example, Tyler State Park has all musicians (well mostly, there are
some other random boxes there too). They are planted by all different
people and they are scattered all over this large park (think Tilden
Park for size comparison). You can spend DAYS looking for all the
boxes there. There's another one that has all movies.
So one idea I had was to take Tilden Park and do something similar.
The theme I came up with was How Berkeley Are You? I made a short
list of some things that would fall into this category:
Hippies
Cal Bears
Free Speech Movement
Chex Panisse
First Bay architecture (Maybeck, Julia Morgan)
Telegraph Ave
Berkeley Marina
People's Park
Grizzly Peak
Strawberry Creek
Berkeley Rep (!!)
(please make more suggestions)
Of course, I am also interested in hearing about other theme ideas or
locations.
Now, one challenge I see with using Tilden is that I have a suspicion
that the rangers there don't like letterboxes. Mine were yanked by
them long ago. So, we would have to either ask permission beforehand
or never use the name of Tilden Park in the clues, or make them WOM.
I think that by coordinating this effort through the mailing list, we
could keep some semblance of secrecy.
The other thing that came up during the recent Albany luncheon was the
interest in having a carving demo gathering. It would be ideal to
schedule thing during the upcoming rainy season. We had something
similar to this about 4 years ago, hosted at Blackbird's classroom
which was a great spot with lots of room and work tables. Does anyone
have a comparable space that we could use? I am envisioning not only
carving lessons, but how to make logbooks, how to camo tape a box, how
to use AQ, etc. Are people interested?
-- Princess Lea
P.S. If you know of any locals who are not on this list, I can send
them an invitation if I am provided with an email address
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa Lazar"
>
> There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
>
> I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
>
> I think that there's a place for more than one method of communication.
>
> Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
>
Re: [LbNCA] Re: Giving this group some love
From: Christie Gurney (SJGurneyGirl@gmail.com) |
Date: 2008-12-18 09:54:13 UTC-08:00
I am teacher and may be able to donate my classroom for a work space.
However, our school hours are pretty funky and I'd have to know in advance
to see if it is a day the building could be opened (I'm assuming this would
be on a weekend).
I teach in NE San Jose, right on the Milpitas border. I'm very close to 680
and 880 isn't too far away, either.
SJ Honey Bunny
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Lea Shangraw Fox <
princesslea@alamedanet.net> wrote:
> Thanks ladies, for your support of this list! I too think that there
> is still a place for it in the world of letterboxing. As moderator, I
> pledge to revive this neglected medium as sort of an early New Year's
> resolution.
>
> Along those lines, here are some ideas I think would be best
> implemented herein, rather than on the AQ California board. Several
> ideas have come to me from observation of the LB Mid-Atlantic group
> (eastern PA, DE). I've gotten to visit their territory a couple of
> times in the last 2 years and have been very impressed with what I saw.
>
> They have large parks where all the boxes have the same theme. For
> example, Tyler State Park has all musicians (well mostly, there are
> some other random boxes there too). They are planted by all different
> people and they are scattered all over this large park (think Tilden
> Park for size comparison). You can spend DAYS looking for all the
> boxes there. There's another one that has all movies.
>
> So one idea I had was to take Tilden Park and do something similar.
> The theme I came up with was How Berkeley Are You? I made a short
> list of some things that would fall into this category:
>
> Hippies
> Cal Bears
> Free Speech Movement
> Chex Panisse
> First Bay architecture (Maybeck, Julia Morgan)
> Telegraph Ave
> Berkeley Marina
> People's Park
> Grizzly Peak
> Strawberry Creek
> Berkeley Rep (!!)
> (please make more suggestions)
>
> Of course, I am also interested in hearing about other theme ideas or
> locations.
>
> Now, one challenge I see with using Tilden is that I have a suspicion
> that the rangers there don't like letterboxes. Mine were yanked by
> them long ago. So, we would have to either ask permission beforehand
> or never use the name of Tilden Park in the clues, or make them WOM.
> I think that by coordinating this effort through the mailing list, we
> could keep some semblance of secrecy.
>
> The other thing that came up during the recent Albany luncheon was the
> interest in having a carving demo gathering. It would be ideal to
> schedule thing during the upcoming rainy season. We had something
> similar to this about 4 years ago, hosted at Blackbird's classroom
> which was a great spot with lots of room and work tables. Does anyone
> have a comparable space that we could use? I am envisioning not only
> carving lessons, but how to make logbooks, how to camo tape a box, how
> to use AQ, etc. Are people interested?
>
> -- Princess Lea
>
> P.S. If you know of any locals who are not on this list, I can send
> them an invitation if I am provided with an email address
>
>
> --- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa Lazar"
> wrote:
> >
> > There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> > morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
> >
> > I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
> >
> > I think that there's a place for more than one method of communication.
> >
> > Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
> >
>
>
>
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However, our school hours are pretty funky and I'd have to know in advance
to see if it is a day the building could be opened (I'm assuming this would
be on a weekend).
I teach in NE San Jose, right on the Milpitas border. I'm very close to 680
and 880 isn't too far away, either.
SJ Honey Bunny
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Lea Shangraw Fox <
princesslea@alamedanet.net> wrote:
> Thanks ladies, for your support of this list! I too think that there
> is still a place for it in the world of letterboxing. As moderator, I
> pledge to revive this neglected medium as sort of an early New Year's
> resolution.
>
> Along those lines, here are some ideas I think would be best
> implemented herein, rather than on the AQ California board. Several
> ideas have come to me from observation of the LB Mid-Atlantic group
> (eastern PA, DE). I've gotten to visit their territory a couple of
> times in the last 2 years and have been very impressed with what I saw.
>
> They have large parks where all the boxes have the same theme. For
> example, Tyler State Park has all musicians (well mostly, there are
> some other random boxes there too). They are planted by all different
> people and they are scattered all over this large park (think Tilden
> Park for size comparison). You can spend DAYS looking for all the
> boxes there. There's another one that has all movies.
>
> So one idea I had was to take Tilden Park and do something similar.
> The theme I came up with was How Berkeley Are You? I made a short
> list of some things that would fall into this category:
>
> Hippies
> Cal Bears
> Free Speech Movement
> Chex Panisse
> First Bay architecture (Maybeck, Julia Morgan)
> Telegraph Ave
> Berkeley Marina
> People's Park
> Grizzly Peak
> Strawberry Creek
> Berkeley Rep (!!)
> (please make more suggestions)
>
> Of course, I am also interested in hearing about other theme ideas or
> locations.
>
> Now, one challenge I see with using Tilden is that I have a suspicion
> that the rangers there don't like letterboxes. Mine were yanked by
> them long ago. So, we would have to either ask permission beforehand
> or never use the name of Tilden Park in the clues, or make them WOM.
> I think that by coordinating this effort through the mailing list, we
> could keep some semblance of secrecy.
>
> The other thing that came up during the recent Albany luncheon was the
> interest in having a carving demo gathering. It would be ideal to
> schedule thing during the upcoming rainy season. We had something
> similar to this about 4 years ago, hosted at Blackbird's classroom
> which was a great spot with lots of room and work tables. Does anyone
> have a comparable space that we could use? I am envisioning not only
> carving lessons, but how to make logbooks, how to camo tape a box, how
> to use AQ, etc. Are people interested?
>
> -- Princess Lea
>
> P.S. If you know of any locals who are not on this list, I can send
> them an invitation if I am provided with an email address
>
>
> --- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com
>
> >
> > There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> > morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
> >
> > I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
> >
> > I think that there's a place for more than one method of communication.
> >
> > Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
> >
>
>
>
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Re: Giving this group some love
From: Lisa Lazar (lazar.bauer@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2008-12-18 23:45:26 UTC
Lea writes:
The other thing that came up during the recent Albany luncheon was
the interest in having a carving demo gathering. It would be ideal
to schedule thing during the upcoming rainy season. We had
something similar to this about 4 years ago, hosted at Blackbird's
classroom which was a great spot with lots of room and work tables.
Does anyone have a comparable space that we could use? I am
envisioning not only carving lessons, but how to make logbooks, how
to camo tape a box, how to use AQ, etc. Are people interested?
*************************************************************
I have a huge beautiful art studio, and I'm always happy to host.
Some of you came to the Egg-Stravaganza and are familiar with teh
space.
Photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisascenic/451026847/
Let me know when you have in mind. Weekends are best for me.
Lisa
The other thing that came up during the recent Albany luncheon was
the interest in having a carving demo gathering. It would be ideal
to schedule thing during the upcoming rainy season. We had
something similar to this about 4 years ago, hosted at Blackbird's
classroom which was a great spot with lots of room and work tables.
Does anyone have a comparable space that we could use? I am
envisioning not only carving lessons, but how to make logbooks, how
to camo tape a box, how to use AQ, etc. Are people interested?
*************************************************************
I have a huge beautiful art studio, and I'm always happy to host.
Some of you came to the Egg-Stravaganza and are familiar with teh
space.
Photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisascenic/451026847/
Let me know when you have in mind. Weekends are best for me.
Lisa
Re: Giving this group some love
From: Lisa Lazar (lazar.bauer@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2008-12-18 23:45:39 UTC
Lea writes:
The other thing that came up during the recent Albany luncheon was
the interest in having a carving demo gathering. It would be ideal
to schedule thing during the upcoming rainy season. We had
something similar to this about 4 years ago, hosted at Blackbird's
classroom which was a great spot with lots of room and work tables.
Does anyone have a comparable space that we could use? I am
envisioning not only carving lessons, but how to make logbooks, how
to camo tape a box, how to use AQ, etc. Are people interested?
*************************************************************
I have a huge beautiful art studio, and I'm always happy to host.
Some of you came to the Egg-Stravaganza and are familiar with the
space.
Photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisascenic/451026847/
Let me know when you have in mind. Weekends are best for me.
Lisa
The other thing that came up during the recent Albany luncheon was
the interest in having a carving demo gathering. It would be ideal
to schedule thing during the upcoming rainy season. We had
something similar to this about 4 years ago, hosted at Blackbird's
classroom which was a great spot with lots of room and work tables.
Does anyone have a comparable space that we could use? I am
envisioning not only carving lessons, but how to make logbooks, how
to camo tape a box, how to use AQ, etc. Are people interested?
*************************************************************
I have a huge beautiful art studio, and I'm always happy to host.
Some of you came to the Egg-Stravaganza and are familiar with the
space.
Photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisascenic/451026847/
Let me know when you have in mind. Weekends are best for me.
Lisa
Re: Giving this group some love
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2008-12-19 17:05:31 UTC
I didn't see the anger, but only saw the questions regarding the
viability of the California lists.
I do not post much here, or on SoCal list for that matter, but do see
the value of both lists.
One thing that I do when we receive found notes from new boxers is to
answer back with a post including links to both this list, the SoCal
list and the Newboxers list.
As the Moderator of the SoCal list ( kind of like the last one of
Custers troops as Ryan doesn't receive emails and Ca. Bear is
sporadically active)I do not set up any communication functions like
Topics and such. It seems like the list stays pretty quiet until a
meet and greet or a gathering of some sort.
Since there are other methods of communication I do not see that the
SoCal list is there to generate discussion ,but rather a way to post
current information. I'm not proposing this for this list, only
advising what I've been doing in SoCal.
While this can turn some folks off, those that get the posts will
only get those every once in a while, so they won't be bugged with
non-informational posts.
There are those letterboxers that do not attend the AQ community.
Don
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa Lazar" wrote:
>
> There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
>
> I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
>
> I think that there's a place for more than one method of
communication.
>
> Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
>
viability of the California lists.
I do not post much here, or on SoCal list for that matter, but do see
the value of both lists.
One thing that I do when we receive found notes from new boxers is to
answer back with a post including links to both this list, the SoCal
list and the Newboxers list.
As the Moderator of the SoCal list ( kind of like the last one of
Custers troops as Ryan doesn't receive emails and Ca. Bear is
sporadically active)I do not set up any communication functions like
Topics and such. It seems like the list stays pretty quiet until a
meet and greet or a gathering of some sort.
Since there are other methods of communication I do not see that the
SoCal list is there to generate discussion ,but rather a way to post
current information. I'm not proposing this for this list, only
advising what I've been doing in SoCal.
While this can turn some folks off, those that get the posts will
only get those every once in a while, so they won't be bugged with
non-informational posts.
There are those letterboxers that do not attend the AQ community.
Don
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "Lisa Lazar"
>
> There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
>
> I, for one, don't think that Yahoo groups should die, die, die.
>
> I think that there's a place for more than one method of
communication.
>
> Lisacan'twealljustgetalongScenic
>
Re: Giving this group some love
From: rscarpen (riskynil@gmail.com) |
Date: 2008-12-19 19:03:04 UTC
> There was so much anger toward the California Yahoo groups this
> morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
The person wasn't taking about this group or the southern California
group. He was referring to the group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/letterbox-ca/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=1
Spend a couple of minutes there, and you'll wish it were dead too. ;o)
-- Ryan
> morning on AQ, that I thought I would send out a little bit of love.
The person wasn't taking about this group or the southern California
group. He was referring to the group at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/letterbox-ca/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=1
Spend a couple of minutes there, and you'll wish it were dead too. ;o)
-- Ryan
Re: [LbNCA] Re: Giving this group some love
From: Puppy Pals (thepuppypals@gmail.com) |
Date: 2008-12-19 16:10:41 UTC-08:00
Hi everyone,
Well, one thing that was good that came from the discussion on AQ was that I
learned of this list. I'm happy to be signed up now to have another means
of communication with local boxers.
I love the idea of a demo/training day. We're newbies, and my carving
skills could *ahem* use a bit of help.
Puppy Pals
>
>
>
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Well, one thing that was good that came from the discussion on AQ was that I
learned of this list. I'm happy to be signed up now to have another means
of communication with local boxers.
I love the idea of a demo/training day. We're newbies, and my carving
skills could *ahem* use a bit of help.
Puppy Pals
>
>
>
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Re: Giving this group some love
From: denise (robanddeniserow@gci.net) |
Date: 2008-12-21 04:18:27 UTC
ahoy...i love this group. i would be happy to demonstrate how to use
a Bind it All for logbooks. Even provide supplies to make them. Just
say when. Maybe the ideas floating around will spur some people to
plant boxes. Then...we can go boxing!!! whoppeee
deniserows
a Bind it All for logbooks. Even provide supplies to make them. Just
say when. Maybe the ideas floating around will spur some people to
plant boxes. Then...we can go boxing!!! whoppeee
deniserows
Re: [LbNCA] Re: Giving this group some love
From: (arttrekker@tech21.com) |
Date: 2008-12-23 22:16:58 UTC-06:00
Hi Lea & all,
So nice to hear from folks. For some reason I haven't made my way through
the AQ boards, maybe because there are so many. I miss this group, it
always seemed easy to stay in touch with my closest boxing pals. I would
love to see it revived. Thanks for your commitment, Lea.
I would love to see Lisa's studio & do a carving day, I'll just have to
wait and see what the date is and what the weather is doing. I'm so happy
to just stay put right now and watch the white stuff come down.
I hope you all have happy holidays,
artTrekker aka Kel
So nice to hear from folks. For some reason I haven't made my way through
the AQ boards, maybe because there are so many. I miss this group, it
always seemed easy to stay in touch with my closest boxing pals. I would
love to see it revived. Thanks for your commitment, Lea.
I would love to see Lisa's studio & do a carving day, I'll just have to
wait and see what the date is and what the weather is doing. I'm so happy
to just stay put right now and watch the white stuff come down.
I hope you all have happy holidays,
artTrekker aka Kel
Re: Giving this group some love
From: grumpygrinchy (ggboxer@comcast.net) |
Date: 2008-12-25 05:31:55 UTC
We're newbies, and my carving
> skills could *ahem* use a bit of help.
>
We are not newbies but our carving skills could use a bit of help!
Plus we need little encouragement to spend a few hours with fellow
letterboxers, schedules permitting.
Grumpy Grinch
> skills could *ahem* use a bit of help.
>
We are not newbies but our carving skills could use a bit of help!
Plus we need little encouragement to spend a few hours with fellow
letterboxers, schedules permitting.
Grumpy Grinch
Re: Giving this group some love
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2008-12-25 17:13:17 UTC
> >
> We are not newbies but our carving skills could use a bit of help!
> Plus we need little encouragement to spend a few hours with fellow
> letterboxers, schedules permitting.
>
> Grumpy Grinch
>
Consider that your arms have been twisted for the next few years.
Little encouragement indeed.
Merry Christmas to all of our Northern Friends.
Don & Gwen
> We are not newbies but our carving skills could use a bit of help!
> Plus we need little encouragement to spend a few hours with fellow
> letterboxers, schedules permitting.
>
> Grumpy Grinch
>
Consider that your arms have been twisted for the next few years.
Little encouragement indeed.
Merry Christmas to all of our Northern Friends.
Don & Gwen