I have to say that I am VERY pleased to have added four
stamps from this talented carver to my collection. I was
in CA this last week for biz and made a point of tracking
down the three boxes in Placerville and my last stop before
the Sacramento airport was hot off the carving board, the
wonderful new Milk Farm box. When I first saw artTrekker's
sig stamp in a book last fall I was chomping at the bit to get
an opportunity to find one of her boxes. Keep 'em coming!
Some of the other boxes I visited while in the area were:
Scoopie's Bee Hive, North Fork Dry Diggins, I-80 #1 (replaced,)
Where's the Fire, Furry O, Nymph of the Sea, Olive Tree, Slinky Dog,
Rainbow Brite #4 and Yolo Oak. The only box I attempted and
failed to find was Howler in Redding. If I was in the correct spot,
the hiding place is now submerged by the lovely Sacramento
River... oops! Thanks all for the diversions from actual paying
work. I really like all my new stamp images.
I checked on my Ide Adobe and Woodson Bridge boxes. Both
are doing fine. Just the other day, I also heard that Buckhorn is
waiting patiently for a visitor or two. A couple of new offerings
are hiding along my path. Watch for the clues, one in Red Bluff
and the other in Chico. Now Chico has this HUGE gorgeous park
with miles and miles of hiking trails of all descriptions and only
two measly little letterboxes. I think it's just screaming for a little
letterbox love... any takers???
Funhog
artTrekker Rocks!
8 messages in this thread |
Started on 2005-05-27
artTrekker Rocks!
From: funhog1 (funhog1@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2005-05-27 04:01:35 UTC
Re: [LbNCA] artTrekker Rocks!
From: Kel Gennert (arttrekker@tech21.com) |
Date: 2005-05-27 00:08:45 UTC-07:00
Funhog,
Thanks so much for the support. Congrats on first finder of Milk Farm! Did you keep your feet clean? I think it's a mulberry tree, in full fruit.
My mom and I got Folsom Powerhouse a week or so ago, and it was such an ordeal! It was hot and rainy, so we were drenched in sweat & had a little trouble making sense of the directions (no one else did, from the log entries--we were just the spazzes who forgot our compass) and there were some mosquitoes...The stamp is very nice, and we were so happy to find the box at last! That acorn hasn't sprouted a very big tree yet, but in the coming months, I will see what I can do to rectify that.
I am so bummed. I lost my personal stamp. Yes, artTrekker the stamp is MIA at Duncan's Landing. Mim's excellent series Sea Creatures is SO worth visiting, and if you go to Duncan's Landing (there is a sort of barrier trying to keep people away from the restrooms--I went through the grass at the right side, and this seems like a logical place for my poor little stamp to be lost--it vaporized between the car and the box, a very short distance), could you please do a little search for me? It is in a little felt pocket, kind of a grass green one, with the pink stamp hiding inside. I looked all I could, but my mom had to be back in Healdsburg to teach a piano lesson and we were already late. Playing hooky boxing. (Little Shop of Horrors rocks!) I had to carve a new stamp for Healdsburg Amadeus (my mom) after she lost hers at Sideways, and the new one is such an improvement, I have to see this as an opportunity. But I'm kind of attached to my pencil-toting trekker. I will think up some very nice reward if someone finds it and gets it back to me!!
aT
Subject: [LbNCA] artTrekker Rocks!
> I have to say that I am VERY pleased to have added four
> stamps from this talented carver to my collection. I was
> in CA this last week for biz and made a point of tracking
> down the three boxes in Placerville and my last stop before
> the Sacramento airport was hot off the carving board, the
> wonderful new Milk Farm box. When I first saw artTrekker's
> sig stamp in a book last fall I was chomping at the bit to get
> an opportunity to find one of her boxes. Keep 'em coming!
Thanks so much for the support. Congrats on first finder of Milk Farm! Did you keep your feet clean? I think it's a mulberry tree, in full fruit.
My mom and I got Folsom Powerhouse a week or so ago, and it was such an ordeal! It was hot and rainy, so we were drenched in sweat & had a little trouble making sense of the directions (no one else did, from the log entries--we were just the spazzes who forgot our compass) and there were some mosquitoes...The stamp is very nice, and we were so happy to find the box at last! That acorn hasn't sprouted a very big tree yet, but in the coming months, I will see what I can do to rectify that.
I am so bummed. I lost my personal stamp. Yes, artTrekker the stamp is MIA at Duncan's Landing. Mim's excellent series Sea Creatures is SO worth visiting, and if you go to Duncan's Landing (there is a sort of barrier trying to keep people away from the restrooms--I went through the grass at the right side, and this seems like a logical place for my poor little stamp to be lost--it vaporized between the car and the box, a very short distance), could you please do a little search for me? It is in a little felt pocket, kind of a grass green one, with the pink stamp hiding inside. I looked all I could, but my mom had to be back in Healdsburg to teach a piano lesson and we were already late. Playing hooky boxing. (Little Shop of Horrors rocks!) I had to carve a new stamp for Healdsburg Amadeus (my mom) after she lost hers at Sideways, and the new one is such an improvement, I have to see this as an opportunity. But I'm kind of attached to my pencil-toting trekker. I will think up some very nice reward if someone finds it and gets it back to me!!
aT
Subject: [LbNCA] artTrekker Rocks!
> I have to say that I am VERY pleased to have added four
> stamps from this talented carver to my collection. I was
> in CA this last week for biz and made a point of tracking
> down the three boxes in Placerville and my last stop before
> the Sacramento airport was hot off the carving board, the
> wonderful new Milk Farm box. When I first saw artTrekker's
> sig stamp in a book last fall I was chomping at the bit to get
> an opportunity to find one of her boxes. Keep 'em coming!
Re: artTrekker Rocks!
From: funhog1 (funhog1@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2005-05-27 15:46:30 UTC
My feet were no problem. I just didn't bother to walk
on the mush... but I did manage to get some on my
hands??? How, I'll never know.
As for the acorn not sprouting... You can't imagine how
much action there is now compared to when I placed
that little stamp. At the time, there were NO boxes in
Sacramento. Davis and Auburn each boasted one. There
was one up north and two at Tahoe. Nada mas, zip, zero
anywhere else! I sprinkled my seeds as I traveled, crossed
my fingers and voila! look at what there is now... Funhog
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, Kel Gennert wrote:
> Funhog,
>
> Thanks so much for the support. Congrats on first finder of Milk Farm! Did you
>keep your feet clean? I think it's a mulberry tree, in full fruit.
>
> My mom and I got Folsom Powerhouse a week or so ago, and it was such an ordeal!
>That acorn hasn't sprouted a very big tree yet, but in the coming months, I will see
>what I can do to rectify that.
on the mush... but I did manage to get some on my
hands??? How, I'll never know.
As for the acorn not sprouting... You can't imagine how
much action there is now compared to when I placed
that little stamp. At the time, there were NO boxes in
Sacramento. Davis and Auburn each boasted one. There
was one up north and two at Tahoe. Nada mas, zip, zero
anywhere else! I sprinkled my seeds as I traveled, crossed
my fingers and voila! look at what there is now... Funhog
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, Kel Gennert
> Funhog,
>
> Thanks so much for the support. Congrats on first finder of Milk Farm! Did you
>keep your feet clean? I think it's a mulberry tree, in full fruit.
>
> My mom and I got Folsom Powerhouse a week or so ago, and it was such an ordeal!
>That acorn hasn't sprouted a very big tree yet, but in the coming months, I will see
>what I can do to rectify that.
Re: artTrekker Rocks!
From: funhog1 (funhog1@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2005-05-27 16:01:46 UTC
My feet were no problem. I just didn't bother to walk
on the mush... but I did manage to get some on my
hands??? How, I'll never know.
As for the acorn not sprouting... You can't imagine how
much action there is now compared to when I placed
that little stamp. At the time, there were NO boxes in
Sacramento. Davis and Auburn each boasted one. There
was one up north and two at Tahoe. Nada mas, zip, zero
anywhere else! I sprinkled my seeds as I traveled, crossed
my fingers and voila! look at what there is now... Funhog
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, Kel Gennert wrote:
> Funhog,
>
> Thanks so much for the support. Congrats on first finder of Milk Farm! Did you
>keep your feet clean? I think it's a mulberry tree, in full fruit.
>
> My mom and I got Folsom Powerhouse a week or so ago, and it was such an ordeal!
>That acorn hasn't sprouted a very big tree yet, but in the coming months, I will see
>what I can do to rectify that.
on the mush... but I did manage to get some on my
hands??? How, I'll never know.
As for the acorn not sprouting... You can't imagine how
much action there is now compared to when I placed
that little stamp. At the time, there were NO boxes in
Sacramento. Davis and Auburn each boasted one. There
was one up north and two at Tahoe. Nada mas, zip, zero
anywhere else! I sprinkled my seeds as I traveled, crossed
my fingers and voila! look at what there is now... Funhog
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, Kel Gennert
> Funhog,
>
> Thanks so much for the support. Congrats on first finder of Milk Farm! Did you
>keep your feet clean? I think it's a mulberry tree, in full fruit.
>
> My mom and I got Folsom Powerhouse a week or so ago, and it was such an ordeal!
>That acorn hasn't sprouted a very big tree yet, but in the coming months, I will see
>what I can do to rectify that.
Re: [LbNCA] Re: artTrekker Rocks!
From: Kel Gennert (arttrekker@tech21.com) |
Date: 2005-05-27 12:10:32 UTC-07:00
> As for the acorn not sprouting... You can't imagine how
> much action there is now compared to when I placed
> that little stamp. At the time, there were NO boxes in
> Sacramento. Davis and Auburn each boasted one. There
> was one up north and two at Tahoe. Nada mas, zip, zero
> anywhere else! I sprinkled my seeds as I traveled, crossed
> my fingers and voila! look at what there is now... Funhog
Yes, it's been very cool! I was referring to Folsom specifically.
> much action there is now compared to when I placed
> that little stamp. At the time, there were NO boxes in
> Sacramento. Davis and Auburn each boasted one. There
> was one up north and two at Tahoe. Nada mas, zip, zero
> anywhere else! I sprinkled my seeds as I traveled, crossed
> my fingers and voila! look at what there is now... Funhog
Yes, it's been very cool! I was referring to Folsom specifically.
Re: artTrekker Rocks!
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2005-05-27 22:38:45 UTC
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "funhog1" wrote:
> I have to say that I am VERY pleased to have added four
> stamps from this talented carver to my collection. I was
> in CA this last week for biz and made a point of tracking
> down the three boxes in Placerville
THREE? I know artTrekker is a great artist, but you missed ours? I
thought we were buddies? Granted, Chile Bar isn't in downtown
Placerville, but it isn't that far. I realize the clue text is pretty
long, but it is almost a "reach out the window" driveby, Waaa, waaaa,
waaa, waaa.
Don
> I have to say that I am VERY pleased to have added four
> stamps from this talented carver to my collection. I was
> in CA this last week for biz and made a point of tracking
> down the three boxes in Placerville
THREE? I know artTrekker is a great artist, but you missed ours? I
thought we were buddies? Granted, Chile Bar isn't in downtown
Placerville, but it isn't that far. I realize the clue text is pretty
long, but it is almost a "reach out the window" driveby, Waaa, waaaa,
waaa, waaa.
Don
Re: artTrekker Rocks!
From: funhog1 (funhog1@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2005-05-28 00:29:40 UTC
Busted! After I posted, I realized that this is the one
other box that I attempted and failed to find. I moved
lots of slate and never found a box! Maybe I was in
the wrong spot??? Regardless, you ended up sending
me on a long cut to my next stop in Cool, CA. The hills
were still green and the flowers still blooming, a lovely
drive. Not to worry, we're still pals... I did try. I love
your stamps. Funhog
>
> THREE? I know artTrekker is a great artist, but you missed ours? I
> thought we were buddies? >
> Don
other box that I attempted and failed to find. I moved
lots of slate and never found a box! Maybe I was in
the wrong spot??? Regardless, you ended up sending
me on a long cut to my next stop in Cool, CA. The hills
were still green and the flowers still blooming, a lovely
drive. Not to worry, we're still pals... I did try. I love
your stamps. Funhog
>
> THREE? I know artTrekker is a great artist, but you missed ours? I
> thought we were buddies? >
> Don
Re: artTrekker Rocks!
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2005-05-28 02:18:14 UTC
--- In LbNCA@yahoogroups.com, "funhog1" wrote:
you ended up sending
> me on a long cut to my next stop in Cool, CA.
Now doesn't that name just cry out for a stamp. Joe Cool?
Okay we forgive you. Hmm that box hasn't been there that long, maybe
some bridge support enthusiasts or slate collectors have come across
the box?
Don
you ended up sending
> me on a long cut to my next stop in Cool, CA.
Now doesn't that name just cry out for a stamp. Joe Cool?
Okay we forgive you. Hmm that box hasn't been there that long, maybe
some bridge support enthusiasts or slate collectors have come across
the box?
Don