Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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August 2015

Clue in a Video?

Started by (john@johnsblog.com) | 1 message | First message: 2015-08-29
Did you know that if you create a letterbox clue as a video, it is very easy to add it as a clue on LbNA? You add the video to youtube, click Share, click Embed, copy the code give in the little text...

Little updates to letterbox-usa

Started by (john@johnsblog.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2015-08-29 | Last message: 2015-08-29
You may have noticed a couple of visual updates to letterbox-usa. This is part of a transition of the ownership of the list from mapsurfer to Jay (DrewFamily) and I (Choi). We'll be working to...

A refreshed Letterboxing North America

Started by (drewclan@aol.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2015-08-29 | Last message: 2015-08-30
I'm delighted with the changes Choi is making to our beloved letterboxing.org. He has been maintaining the website for many years now, and with a burst of energy has re-written much of the code and...

LbNA Ideas

Started by (john@johnsblog.com) | 1 message | First message: 2015-08-29
A few months ago LbNA has started using a service called UserVoice for feedback and suggestions. There's a little icon in the bottom right of most LbNA pages to access the service. If you'd like to...

Kickstarter Campaign - Silent Doug Articles

Started by (john@johnsblog.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2015-08-27 | Last message: 2015-08-27
Use the Help > LbNA Articles menu to get to Silent Dougs articles on LbNA.

Link from LbNA Home Page

Started by (john@johnsblog.com) | 1 message | First message: 2015-08-27
Just a heads up... I've added a link to this list under the Home button on the LbNA home page. We'll see if it generates more activity for this list. Choi

June 2015

Flooding in Texas

Started by (babybearlb2002@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2015-06-10
With multiple rivers and lakes way out of their banks over the last 3 weeks, many letterboxes may be destroyed or displaced.   Please be sure to update status of boxes you look for, and after the...

May 2015

Death of a letterboxer

Started by (gilbe@bendbroadband.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2015-05-17 | Last message: 2015-05-19
I don't use this group very often, but I do watch the posts that are on it.  A friend of mine, an avid birdwatcher and letterboxer, died yesterday, and his brother asked me to let all his...

Kickstarter Campaign

Started by (babybearlb2002@yahoo.com) | 27 messages | First message: 2015-05-08 | Last message: 2015-08-14
  Strange that this topic is not even discussed here?    And that on AQ forum they are even talking about creating an LBNA forum page for discussion of LBNA issues?     I guess this talk list is...

April 2015

Hikes vs History

Started by (babybearlb2002@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2015-04-22 | Last message: 2015-04-26
If it will stop raining in Texas I have multiple new History boxes to place.   Lately, I have found many interesting historical events and figures in Texas small towns, with links to (or since good...

A Meeting of the Minds

Started by Nathan Brown (Cyclonic07@aol.com) | 7 messages | First message: 2015-04-12 | Last message: 2015-04-14
Had a nice day yesterday.  Schizokeet and I ventured north to Penns Woods to catch up with a  few letterboxers and old friends in Downingtown. On the way we did grad a...

Letterboxing in Wallacetown, ON

Started by Pam Hedden (scrap.master.pam@rogers.com) | 1 message | First message: 2015-04-07
We managed to get out for an afternoon last May to find Happy Halloween?? Letterbox.  http://inmyworld-pam.blogspot.ca/2015/04/backus-page-house-wallacetown-on.html   See...

It is spring

Started by Pam Hedden (scrap.master.pam@rogers.com) | 1 message | First message: 2015-04-05
We only made it out letterboxing a couple of times in 2014 which made me really sad.  Our lives were filled to the brim, dear hubby was working all the time and towards the end of the year our...

TALE XIII

Started by (babybearlb2002@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2015-04-03
That would be great.   Lucky 13!!!!!   We are working on location and theme right now, and should have booked and set up in a few months.   Hope you make it!!!

March 2015

in the unlikely event ... Joke?

Started by Susan Da (davisarc@gmavt.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2015-03-28 | Last message: 2015-03-28
Guinness for breakfast?  Sounds somewhat like an old Irish fiddle tune "Whiskey Before Breakfast" .  However, I don't believe the bar is open that early in the day.  I remember a wonderful breakfast...

in the unlikely event ... Joke?

Started by (sileagle@windstream.net) | 1 message | First message: 2015-03-28
Now that I have looked at the Event, methinks Sir Randy is playing a delayed April Fools joke on us.  For those of us who have been around awhile you know this wouldn't be the first time (see 2004...

in the unlikely event ...

Started by Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) | 30 messages | First message: 2015-03-26 | Last message: 2015-04-03
there are any really old timers reading this list (or, more accurately, anyone reading this list) http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?eventId=3450

Planted our first boxes!

Started by Becky Brunner (rebeccasigns@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2015-03-16 | Last message: 2015-03-17
I know discretion is the name of the letterboxing game so I hope that sharing this news is ok.  But...we got 'em done!  My kids carved their stamps, created their logbooks, secured everything in...

The rookies ask: Best container for outdoor letterbox?

Started by Becky Brunner (rebeccasigns@yahoo.com) | 9 messages | First message: 2015-03-14 | Last message: 2015-03-16
Hi friends,What is the best container you have used for a letterbox?  I can't find anything that seems watertight. We found a few local boxes that were soaked, and they used smallish "Ziploc"...

Rookie question about a clue

Started by (rebeccasigns@yahoo.com) | 11 messages | First message: 2015-03-08 | Last message: 2015-03-11
Hi everyone,My daughters and I are new to the hobby.  We're so excited.  We've just finished carving our "personal" stamps, we have journals, and we're ready to hunt!  We're going to find a few boxes...

January 2015

Virtual Letterboxes

Started by (ontario_cacher@yahoo.ca) | 6 messages | First message: 2015-01-19 | Last message: 2015-01-27
It's winter and my thoughts turn to Virtual Letterboxes. I had to move my VLBs from the AQ site, Ryan Carpenter decommissioned Virtual letterboxes from the AQ site as of January 1 2015. After all...

November 2014

Bentornato a nuova inghilterra

Started by (harriet_noone@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2014-11-23 | Last message: 2014-11-25
Cari tutti,After several years of travel and adventure, I've returned from a long hiatus. It's nice to see the LBNA site still functional. I had a wee poke around the basement but thankfully most of...

LBNA Stability

Started by (john@johnsblog.com) | 8 messages | First message: 2014-11-19 | Last message: 2014-11-20
Has anyone had any problems with LbNA in the last week? I restarted the entire virtual server and it seem to have corrected the problems that I was seeing. Also, I resolved a problem with Contact the...

LBNA Access

Started by (sileagle@windstream.net) | 16 messages | First message: 2014-11-04 | Last message: 2014-12-04
A fellow Texan is not able to log into LBNA because his email no longer exists and he can't change it in LBNA unless he logs in under the old one.  Since the webmasters don't seem to be answering...

October 2014

Images that are trademark or patents

Started by donutz716 (donutz716@yahoo.com) | 8 messages | First message: 2014-10-25 | Last message: 2014-10-29
I've not really paid much attention in the past when searching images for letterboxes, but I've found a cool image and my husband asked me if I checked to us if I can legally use it.  Should I be...