Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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November 2005

Where has all the Pink Stuff gone???

Started by Erin (Sailor_Mystique@hotmail.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2005-11-17 | Last message: 2005-11-17
It's been forever since I last saw my beloved Pink Stuff, better known as Speedball Speedystamp rubber carving blocks, in stores by itself and not in a beginner's package. Finding it online outside...

kids stamps

Started by (scoutingbear1978@aol.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2005-11-16 | Last message: 2005-11-18
I am doing a workshop this weekend for girl scout leaders on letterboxing. Part of the workshop will include a section on carving stamps and getting their girls involved. We have ideas for the...

Ink and moisture

Started by Charlotte Schmotzer (charpezt@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-11-16 | Last message: 2005-11-17
Not that this has much to do with pigment inks, but something I have found helpful in this cold clime...I save the little moisture packs that come in shoes and medicine and other items. The ones...

Pigment Ink - Problems?

Started by kirbert2001 (kirbert2001@yahoo.com) | 18 messages | First message: 2005-11-16 | Last message: 2005-12-06
I recently ran across something I haven't seen before: Instructions to NOT use pigment ink to stamp in. Not just once, but several. One explained that the log book was thin paper and it would soak...

just testing something out

Started by bigpoppaduz (bigpoppaduz@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2005-11-15 | Last message: 2005-11-15

Say what you want...

Started by Cire Otrue (cireotrue@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-15
Who cares. They're only words. I find that my energy is best put to use hunting boxes. Whether they be well written clues, or the more "cryptic" ones, the hunt shall prevail for me, not the vote. I...

ISO Boxer near Orange City, FL

Started by Laura/Nautilus (naturbuf@gwi.net) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-15
I'm looking for a boxer who is within a reasonable distance to Orange City, FL, preferably one who has already found my mini manatee box at Blue Spring State Park. It is a microbox and I recently had...

Letteringboxing - the Victorian way

Started by Michelle Lee (misch@pobox.com) | 7 messages | First message: 2005-11-14 | Last message: 2005-11-15
Greetings folks, One of my other hobbies is Vintage Dancing. (http://vintagedancers.org/) I was just at an 1860's ball last night and was talking about letterboxing and how it started. Many of...

Prepare, the hour is near!

Started by Tom Noone (mntnlover@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-13
Take heart, my weary pilgrims, redemption is at hand. Pack your belongings, prepare victuals to share with other travelers. Do not fret. Several different paths to angelic images available for...

Dana Common Letterbox

Started by automan01440 (automan01440@msn.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-13
Today Grandpajoe and Automan01440 found the Dana Common Letterbox. THe box had some water in it. The stamp and the ink pad are both a little wet. The logbook is dry but the logbook is almost full...

Reminder - newboxers chat 8pm EST on Sunday

Started by bindlestiff_boxer (bindlestiff_boxer@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-13
Any newboxers here, who've not yet heard about the yahoogroup for newbies, please note: there is a chat every Sunday night at 8p EST. I found the info on the homepage for the newboxers, which is...

Lbing in Columbus OH

Started by jldoughe (jldoughe@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-12
I will be traveling to Columbus in Feb. and was wondering if anyone knows if the LB's there are within walking distance from the Greater Columbus Convention Center. jld

The bird is back in Grapevine, TX

Started by (blhjrh@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-12
Be sure to see the amended clues (as of today, 11/12/05) before going to find In the Tree: Meghan's Bird in Grapevine's Heritage Park Botanic Garden. It's been relocated, still in the same park...

NPLW

Started by Maribeth Jagger (cjagger405@earthlink.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-11-12 | Last message: 2005-11-13
We should have a National Plant a Letterbox Week (NPLW) like in early Spring when all who care to participate plants at least one letterbox. That would give us all a fresh bunch of boxes to find...

well

Started by Dave (nhpedestrian@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2005-11-12 | Last message: 2005-11-12
as some of you have found out, i am Team New Hampshire. what i did the last few days, praising myself, and the last few weeks, disrespecting others as well as myself, was wrong. all i did was ask...

Ban banning (frustrating oft-made assumptions)

Started by cadenza74 (jjcadenza@gmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-12
Folks! Please keep in mind there is a difference between banning and placing someone on moderation status to make sure personal or inflamatory remarks aren't tearing up the group. I have seen time...

Letterboxing is for "Kids at heart"

Started by (budster2@juno.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-11
As soon as "adults" become involved ...................... (you fill in the rest) Budster of the Catskills

Ban banning

Started by Drew Family (drewclan@aol.com) | 7 messages | First message: 2005-11-11 | Last message: 2005-11-14
Margaret and I both hate this "banning" thing that happens sometimes on letterbox-usa, and have ever since the first person was banned, a gentleman from the Pacific Northwest four or five years...

winter letterboxing hints

Started by dixiedarlin_snakedancer (dixiedarlin_snakedancer@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2005-11-11 | Last message: 2005-11-11
we are newcomers and just started LB in July our Massachusetts weather can make outdoor activities more challenging and bet that the "CLUES" look different in a winter scene the first LB we went...

Bird rescued!

Started by (blhjrh@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-09
Thanks to P?uest for letting me know that my letterbox, In the Tree: Meghan's Bird, was in grave danger so that I could rescue her in the nick of time! For who knows what reason, park personnel...

... - Let there be peace

Started by Karen Ruhl (ruhlette@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2005-11-09 | Last message: 2005-11-10
This is good news. I have a question though ... did they know you were following in their tracks? I read the threads associated with this issue, but if I were unfamiliar, I might wonder whether...

blah blah Team New Hampshire - Let there be peace

Started by Bob Morgun (morgunjp@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-11-09 | Last message: 2005-11-10
I recently followed Team New Hampshire through a series a boxes (they were long gone). I found them to be capable and conscientious. They located the boxes without problems, and reported the...

Bike it or Hike it news; CT

Started by haalck (haalck@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-09
The Farmington Canal Rail Trail "Lock 12" Letterbox (Cheshire, CT) has gone missing again so I've retired it for good. However, there is still another box of mine at "Mount Carmel Station" for...

MN - New Ulm series boxes fixed (MLC Library)

Started by duncan53211 (duncan53211@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-08
For those of you that tried to find the New Ulm, MN boxes in the MLC library, I had one of my students check on the boxes during a trip up there last weekend. They reported back to me that he...

IN: Scoutdogs--are you ok?

Started by dvn2rckr (dvn2rckr@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-11-07
Heard the news about the tornado that touched down in your neck of the woods earlier today. We are praying that you made it through safe and sound. Please drop us a note if you need anything at...