Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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August 2004

Rehiding boxes....

Started by Steve (boxdn@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
Not a rant just an obseveration. The past two weeks I've been all over our area hutning and checking and out of the twelve boxes hunted two were missing and six were hardly covered. The two...

Why are we pointing fingers and sticks at one another?

Started by Karen Ruhl (ruhlette@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
A perfect example --- today I went out to look for Broad Ripple Microbox planted very recently. I was the first finder. The clues indicated the box was hidden behind some bark. When I spotted it,...

Little Stinker HH

Started by Rebecca Lay (rmlay@mindspring.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
Little Stinker (mailed to me in the "Call the Plumber" PLB) was released into the wilds again today after a long sojourn in my backpack! Oops... She's had quite a journey so far... :) Buckaroo

Passport To Letterboxing Stamp Camp

Started by bookwormbox (bookwormlb@comcast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-24
The Passport To Letterboxing Stamp Camp is less that a week away and I am very excited! This event promises to be spectacular! Just a few reminders: If you are coming up for the day on Saturday,...

Letterbox Karma - was: A Newbies Perspective

Started by Sandy (zebziggle@yahoo.com) | 7 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-24
I was thinking more about destroyed letterboxes and was wondering if the website could actually be used as a solution rather than a cause. This requires a couple of steps: 1. The website would...

phytohaiku

Started by Phyto (phyto_me@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "johnnylb1000" wrote: > Who is Phyto and why is she threatening us. Who does she think she is? > Why do we care if she removes her letterboxes? > Does anyone...

I'm going to piss someone off here; now etiquette for Lithuanian fruit bats

Started by Lady Hydrangea Prisspott nee Hedge (lady_prisspott@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-24
A tear is welling up in my eye, all these years I thought my dear sister Ivy was just annoyed by me and then she composes this beautiful post. All my worry and concern were for naught, she has become...

Recipes for the Lithuanian Fruitbat

Started by Judy B (sowbiz@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-23
Oh, pulleeze - it is bad enough I am reading these posts, but now I am laffing my fool head off at my desk - situated somewhere in a cubical in DC. --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "Flame...

Time article - A Newbies Perspective

Started by Sandy (zebziggle@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-23
Hi all, I'm a newbie (P0 F3 now) that was turned on to letterboxing as a result of the Time article. The only salient part of article for me was the url of the website. From there I learned all...

Mating Habits of the Lithuanian Fruitbat

Started by Flame Thrower (ADGLBNA@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
I am now going to yell at myself: TAMMY, how could send a post about not having the contents match the subject line and forget to change the subject line? So here is my correction and huge...

I'm going to piss someone off here.

Started by Poison Ivy Hedge (poizniv@gmail.com) | 10 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-24
Hypothetical conversations : Loosely based on actually happenings. Yelling is a no no - Via electronic communications - yelling is signified by all caps. As in: "PUT THE LID BACK ON MY BOX!" I...

Tom Cooch Interview

Started by funhog1 (funhog@pacifier.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-24
After my morning cruise of the excellent, and always amusing, Pepe's website (http:// markandsuepepe.blogspot.com/) I found that the Cooch interview was up and running! Thanks again for a glimpse...

Re. VT/NH sitrep

Started by rospa10 (wilmes2@mindspring.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
Thanks for the update. We love visiting VT and N.H. I'll save your update in my letterboxing folder. Glad to hear you made it to my hometown! Question: What do you mean by "the basement"? Is...

VT/NH SitRep

Started by Lea Shangraw Fox (princesslea@alamedanet.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-24
I have just returned from a whirlwind trip to New England where I had the opportunity to do some letterboxing in Vermont and a few in New Hampshire too. Here is the status of what I was able to...

ME: Laudholm Quest and others **WARNING**

Started by Phyto (phyto_me@yahoo.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-24
CROSS POSTED TO LBNE Folks - I just got a report that Great Blue Heron of the Laudholm Quest as well as Nautilus' Otter in the Pines was left out in the open. Saco Heath #2 was graciously...

Las Vegas Strip LBs?

Started by Debbi Scott (dscott5377@earthlink.net) | 5 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-24
My husband is going to Las Vegas for a business trip tomorrow. He will be staying at the Monte Carlo and has no transportation... can anyone recommend some good (and on the easier side)...

Amanda in Seattle

Started by floridasunsets1017 (fla-sunsets@verizon.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
Found one of Amand in Seattle's boxes on Sunday and would lik to pass along status. Unfortunately, to contact her via her clue requires me to register with Atlasquest. I'm one of those people that...

OH--New Boxes

Started by Debra Nickles (artndeb@horizonview.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
Good day, happy boxers! Placed 2 new boxes this weekend at Scioto Trails: "Lurker" and "Lumpy Lounger." One contains my first hand-carved, well, er, my hubby's (he's modeled mini-s for years & is...

Accurate Subjects - NOT: Re: [LbNA] To Post or Not To Post

Started by Judy B (sowbiz@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-23
Very recently, here or on the LBMA site, it was mentioned that when REPLYING to a post, if you are changing the discussion topic then the Subject should also be changed to accurately reflect the...

hh difficultly hitting the shift key?

Started by lizardbuttsfamily (mmebt@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
love the i but i lost it somewhere in time not all of us are e.e. cummings maybe but most likely not i guess the muscles in the fifth digit don't work love the old typist but i love warriner's the...

WOM clues

Started by Alafair (lkazel@mindspring.com) | 12 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-09-09
First, let me say to all who read this list, Mark and Sue are two of the nicest and most enthusiastic letterboxers I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Their website is one of my fave boxing...

drying out wet letterboxes

Started by Anna Lisa Yoder (annalisa@fast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
About drying out letterbox contents-- I've thought about saving those little desiccant packets that come with certain things you buy, to keep in my letterboxing backpack and put in damp letterboxes I...

Rosie Ruiz HH and Fabian Forte

Started by funhog1 (funhog@pacifier.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-23
Serendipity smiled! Rosie just got a chance to leapfrog her way to the lovely Heartland of America. She's been lingering on the West Coast for way too long and much appreciates this leg up in the...

Time article and WOM clues

Started by playschoolteach (playschoolteach@yahoo.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2004-08-23 | Last message: 2004-08-23
As I sit here typing this, I am already ducking, waiting for the flame that is sure to come my way. I've now been engaging in this hooby for a total of five months. In that time, I have found...

Satish's resume (Ooops or intentional?!)

Started by carol pedersen (pedersenteevens@cablespeed.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-22
Good luck, Satish ;-) PennyPenny South Lyon, MI