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July 2006

Drivebys and Handicap Accessible Boxes Needed

Started by oldhounder (jackmarvin@alumni.uvm.edu) | 2 messages | First message: 2006-07-04 | Last message: 2006-07-04
We hope this is a temporary condition but it is hard to tell with arthritic inflamation. Siamese is in a lot of pain and cannot walk very long or very far. As a team, we now have to constrain...

Stamp from oldhounder

Started by oldhounder (jackmarvin@alumni.uvm.edu) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-03
If you were at any of the following gatherings and acquired a stamp of a pony-tailed woman riding a galloping horse, the stamp now has a name and is listed as an event stamp on Atlasquest so that you...

Opinion on Stamps.

Started by knightbaker63 (knightbaker63@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2006-07-02 | Last message: 2006-07-03
I have four Lb's out there and they all have carved stamps that are ok. You can tell I'm not an artist, but I think they look all right when compared to some I have stamped. I have a tendancy to...

Conquest LB on Outer Banks, NC

Started by ellbee01 (leronis@att.net) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-02
We must have inadvertently placed our 'Conquest' box on the Outer Banks in a (postage stamp-sized) park where a geocache exists. The stamp was taken and so the box has been pulled until further...

Letterpod Episode #2

Started by John Chapman (john@johnsblog.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-02
Letterpod, the letterboxing podcast, episode 2 has just been released. See iTunes music store or www.letterpod.net. Choi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

pH-Cross post

Started by Diana Newton Wood, MD (diana@kjsl.com) | 9 messages | First message: 2006-07-02 | Last message: 2006-07-03
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has heard from pH, or knows how to get in touch with him. All his boxes are up for adoption on Atlasquest as he hasn't posted in a year. There is one particular...

anyone lost a stamp with 2 stars on it????

Started by skier4444 (ellen@cyberportal.net) | 1 message | First message: 2006-07-01
Found a stamp neat by a letterbox in North conway with 2 stars on it- was not in log book -of letterbox- have it- will mail back to anyone is someone missing it

June 2006

Letterboxing Ethics

Started by Clyde Bentley (clyde.bentley@gmail.com) | 15 messages | First message: 2006-06-30 | Last message: 2006-07-04
If I can bring the ethical discussion back to the hobby, here is an interesting list I received from Yorkshire Tortoise, a fellow letterboxer in England. As you might know, most UK clues are sent to...

2nd Annual Mid-MO Spraing Gathering

Started by lnd_crzr (rmed_mountain@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-30
Not to long ago, the Mid-MO LB community gathhered for the second annual Spring gatheirng. Some may recall the galliant rescue by the Gardener and the Goddess last year of poor Wallace & Gromit...

off topic

Started by greenthumbnh (greenthumbnh@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-30
I just want to wish eveyone a safe and Happy 4th of July weekend. Nice long weekend for our favorite hobby Greenthumbnh

International Letterboxes.

Started by boomboxbettie (hexwrung308@hotmail.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2006-06-29 | Last message: 2006-07-01
Hi Everyone, Im sort of new to the whole internet LB discussions but I just returned from Japan where I found a letterbox called "Kotori-no- mori" near Inokashira Park. Its right in Mitaka City...

Urban Letterboxing List

Started by June (nfmoon@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-29
Since I stopped by to speak of the ape and see that we have many new members, if you're interested in urban boxing, check us out at:...

The Mighty Ape Returns

Started by June (nfmoon@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-29
After too long an absence, The Mighty Ape has once again returned to the scene of his demise. He waits.

Poison Ivy (cure)

Started by (RMORGAN762@aol.com) | 7 messages | First message: 2006-06-29 | Last message: 2006-06-29
I can't count the number of times I've found a box planted in a poison ivy patch. One clue was 'a small tree with branches growing out of the top'..it was a fence post covered in poison ivy. As...

Agree with you

Started by skier4444 (ellen@cyberportal.net) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-28
I should not of posted it here Soory

Differences between Geocaching and Letterboxing

Started by knightbaker63 (knightbaker63@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2006-06-28 | Last message: 2006-06-28
I have been searching through the posts here and I don't think that this has been discussed, or at least my take, but if I am merely echoing what previous posters have said, I appologize in...

Rummage sale box in IL

Started by duncan53211 (duncan53211@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-28
The Rummage Sale box will be in a couple of IL locations for a bit. This weekend it is in Hillside. You can find the clues...

Park vandalism

Started by (RMORGAN762@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-27
I was looking for a box today in Zanesville. (Destroyed) Seems some folks were caught breaking the concrete rail posts to get at the fancy metal railing to sell as scrap. I've been hearing a lot...

Taking a Road Trip... need boxes...

Started by Debbi Scott (dscott5377@earthlink.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2006-06-27 | Last message: 2006-06-27
In July we will be driving from Denver, CO to Dayton, OH. I was thinking I would like to take some boxes with me to plant along the way... however, I do not have time to carve stamps and make boxes....

Ethics

Started by mary Zinsle (mary_zinsle@yahoo.com) | 13 messages | First message: 2006-06-27 | Last message: 2006-07-01
I have notice a lot of topics going on here that hasn't a thing to do with letterboxing. Hmm so I guess I will put my two cents worth in, Spell checker? yes I do believe most people have that...

Where to find inspiration .....

Started by Gretchen Caldwell (boston.rott@verizon.net) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-26
I'm sure I'm not the only person who receives crazy emails (usually straight to my spam folder) with titles that seem like "mad libs" gone bad. A noun, and perhaps a mismatched adjective or adverb...

Twenty Questions Letterbox - Question #20

Started by ephemeralletterboxer (ephemeralletterboxer@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2006-06-26 | Last message: 2006-06-30
This mail is being sent as part of an ongoing game of Twenty Questions which has the purpose of determining the clues for the Twenty Questions Letterbox. For more details...

Joining Twenty Questions game

Started by cpascott (seh-letterbox@comcast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2006-06-26
Hey all ... I don't tend to follow the boards much, but I was made aware of the Twenty Questions game going on here and decided to take a look ... There is at least one letterbox already at Rocky...

Photos from 4th Annual Great Lakes Gathering

Started by Wisconsin Hiker (kotlarek@wi.rr.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2006-06-26 | Last message: 2006-06-27
I've already posted this on the Great Lakes message board, but if anyone else is interested in seeing some photos from the 4th Annual Great Lakes Gathering held on June 3, 2006, you can find them...

deleteted pics of Loons

Started by skier4444 (ellen@cyberportal.net) | 12 messages | First message: 2006-06-25 | Last message: 2006-06-27
i got jumped all over for pictures took of a mother loon- i NEVER NEVER left trail i was on that was looking for letterboxing. The people at the park knew that the loon was there and said the Lon...