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July 2006

BABE - OOPS here's the date

Started by Mountain Scorpia (mountainscorpia@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-24
Mark your calendars for an anniversary event Saturday, April 26, 2008 in the mountains of North Carolina! Letterboxing began in America on April 26, 1998 with an orienteer from Suwanee, TN...

BABE - mark your calendars for 2008 :)

Started by Mountain Scorpia (mountainscorpia@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2006-07-24 | Last message: 2006-07-25
Letterboxing began in America on April 26, 1998 with an orienteer from Suwanee, TN "seeding" a box on Max Patch, a "bald" in Madison County, NC. (Another claim of the first box in America is at...

Please don't bag my boxes

Started by Mountain Scorpia (mountainscorpia@yahoo.com) | 8 messages | First message: 2006-07-24 | Last message: 2006-07-26
Doing box maintenance yesterday, I found a box that someone had decided needed a ziplock bag around it. The ziplock had toothmark holes in it, which means of course a critter was involved, and also...

Using Freecycle was Re: [LbNA] off subject - in need of something weird

Started by ruhlette (ruhlette@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-24
I'm a moderator for a Freecycle group. I have gifted quite a few items this past year or so. I've only posted offers, but you see quite a variety of Wanteds. I'll be happy to post one in my group...

off subject - in need of something weird

Started by gingerbreadjunk (gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com) | 10 messages | First message: 2006-07-24 | Last message: 2006-07-24
well, i do have another hobby, which does involve Gingerbread Jim, which is a character i came up with for letterboxing, that did get it's start in Gingerbread Junction, which is what my other...

letterbox manners?

Started by The Cox Family (coxclan5@northstate.net) | 9 messages | First message: 2006-07-23 | Last message: 2006-07-25
We found a letterbox this weekend while on vacation at the beach---anyway the placer put it there while they were on vacation and now the notebook is full. What do you do? Should I put a new...

stamp

Started by private (psychicfiles@yahoo.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2006-07-23 | Last message: 2006-08-30
i to want to make a good stamp or find one at least.. i did try my hand at carving but i dont like the look of the stamp.. back to the drawing board.. bren

Mistaking Letterboxes for geocaches

Started by knightbaker63 (knightbaker63@yahoo.com) | 26 messages | First message: 2006-07-22 | Last message: 2006-08-25
As more letterboxes are planted along with even more geocaches, it is a matter of time before they get mixed up. This actually happened to me. There is an Lb up near Inlet, NY called Cathedral in...

Midwest Letterboxers

Started by midwest_letterboxers (coolwan@zoomtown.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-22
HTTP://letterboxers.org Who we are? We are a group of letterboxers from the Midwest of United States. IL,IN,KY,MI,OH and WI Our goal is simple, to bring in new letterboxers and up hold the...

popping in

Started by private (psychicfiles@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-22
hi guys i am just popping in to say hi..brenda

Remembering Rocky

Started by gingerbreadjunk (gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2006-07-22 | Last message: 2006-07-23
ok mosey, you gone done dude it now! on my blog, i have a poll question. the poll question is, How should i remember rocky? please go to my site and vote. i will after about 50 votes, decide with...

Stamp Creating

Started by HateItHuH? (snugelkin@hotmail.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2006-07-22 | Last message: 2006-07-23
Im new here and Im sure this has been asked befor but I havent found it anywhere. Is there a specific website I could go to to design and have them make my personal stamp? Im good with some...

Arington MA Artbeat boxes

Started by sisteragnes (sisteragnes@verizon.net) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-21
If anyone is searching for the Artbeat letterboxes placed in the vicinity of Arlington,MA the store informed me yesterday that the Waltham and Charlestown boxes are missing. sister@ -----...

as if my day couldn't have gotten any worse!

Started by gingerbreadjunk (gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com) | 14 messages | First message: 2006-07-21 | Last message: 2006-07-22
so today was my youngest childs birthday. he would have been 7 years old. it had been since christmas of 05, the last time i saw him. this time was really hard for me. i didn't shead a tear, but...

Remembering the young!

Started by gingerbreadjunk (gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2006-07-20 | Last message: 2006-07-20
As no one would ever like for to happen, a young child was lost. 7 years ago a young child was born. he had the most loving parents and cared for him ever second they could. now there was only so...

"Unknown" Letterboxes

Started by matolutacikala (matoluta@cmc.net) | 5 messages | First message: 2006-07-19 | Last message: 2006-07-19
Generally, for what reasons is a letterbox listed as "unknown"? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Nova Scotia Boxes - A Request

Started by jiggs11onlb (jiggs111@earthlink.net) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-18
This is for anyone going to Cape Breton later on this year. I have a report that my Men of The Deeps box in Glace Bay, NS is missing, due in part to the moving of the mine train car it was resting...

Need help to find Buffalo, NY boxer!

Started by jps225 (jps225@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-18
I found somethin near the Agua Linda Happy Gecko box in Scottsdale Arizona. I'm pretty sure the boxer is related to a "Pumpkin" and comes from Buffalo New York. I think this individual would want...

Heading to Barcelona ... care to plant a box?

Started by cpascott (seh-letterbox@comcast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-17
Hey all ... heading to Barcelona, Spain this Friday for 10 days on business. I'll have 3 days to myself. I took a look to see if there were any letterboxes there, but came up empty. The idea of...

Colorado Inkuisition this weekend

Started by edwebbe (edwebbe@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-17
Hello- The second annual Renaipalooza gathering will be happening at the Colorado Renaissance Festival this Saturday. If any of you folks will be in the Denver or Colorado Springs area this...

In Memory -- Please be careful out there!

Started by Clio Mouse (cliomouse@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2006-07-16 | Last message: 2006-07-17
I do not mean to bring those who read this down, but I think there's a valuable message to be understood here. Those in the Pacific Northwest may have heard of the recent murder of two women who...

I don't think you get it!

Started by gingerbreadjunk (gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2006-07-16 | Last message: 2006-07-16
Something tells me you aren't taking me seriously. you need to be prepared. we will be hostel. the time is coming! be afraid! http://thealieninvasion.blogspot.com details to come soon.

Hello and Introduction

Started by pgayle (bcbooks@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2006-07-16 | Last message: 2006-07-19
Hello I am new to letterboxing, and bought a stamp. I would like to make my own. I know there is a lot of information about carving etc. I would like to know is it better to use linoleum or a...

stamp found in Hamden CT

Started by defygravity2001 (defygravity@snet.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2006-07-16 | Last message: 2006-07-16
We found a dragonfly stamp on the ground near one of the Giant Hodgepodge letterboxes on Sleeping Giant. It had not been stamped into the box's logbook. Anyone own it? Aili & Bruce

looking for Spencer family

Started by beach12lady (Nillalady@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-15
Anybody know the Spencer family from MI? They left a personal stamp at a box in Destin, FL. Thought I'd mail it back if I could find them. Beachcomber