The Huron River finally lowered enough for me to get close to where
Jabberwocky USED to be -- I assume it floated somewhere downstream.
Nothing is left of where it had been placed but a bare riverbank.
I'll replace it in a new but close location soon. Too bad; I really
liked that stamp. I'll recreate it, though.

I haven't been able to get to where River Bend is -- that one might
have survived the flood because it was well wedged in its location.

Ruthann

> The Huron River finally lowered enough for me to get close to where
> Jabberwocky USED to be -- I assume it floated somewhere downstream.
> Nothing is left of where it had been placed but a bare riverbank.

Ruthann,

Sorry about your loss.

I too have a letterbox that is "adrift out there", for lack of
a better word. I lost it in a difficult environment while attempting
to place it, and never bothered to mention its existence on my web
site or this list since the odds of ever find such a box seem so remote.

They can be thought of as an extreme class of box, though, if they ever
turn up again in civilization :-)

Cheers
randy "the mapsurfer"

Randy Hall writes ("Re: [LbNA] Jabberwocky in Michigan"):
>I too have a letterbox that is "adrift out there", for lack of
>a better word. I lost it in a difficult environment while attempting
>to place it, and never bothered to mention its existence on my web
>site or this list since the odds of ever find such a box seem so remote.

Everyone put your hand up who's lost a box this way...

I placed a box along the Minnesota river last year. When placing it,
I thought, "Hmmmm, it might flood here. Maybe I should come back with
a line and tie it off to a tree." Before I could come back (and
before I could ever post to the list), we had heavy rains and it
apparently went downriver. I still have visions of scuba diving in
the Gulf and seeing it floating along.

I'll get around to replacing it once the snow melts...


--
Richard W Kaszeta Engineer and Sysadmin
bofh@me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta

Richard,
I may also have a "drifting" letterbox out there somewhere. My Wahkeena Falls
box aparently washed down the cliffside last winter. I looked around below
to see if I might stumble across it, but I suspect it washed into the
Columbia River and is now out at sea somewhere. In the movies, the guy on the
stranded island always finds a message in a bottle... how about a plastic
box???

--Der Mad Stamper, Portland, OR


Richard Kaszeta writes:

> Randy Hall writes ("Re: [LbNA] Jabberwocky in Michigan"):
> >I too have a letterbox that is "adrift out there", for lack of
> >a better word. I lost it in a difficult environment while attempting
> >to place it, and never bothered to mention its existence on my web
> >site or this list since the odds of ever find such a box seem so remote.
>
> Everyone put your hand up who's lost a box this way...
>
> I placed a box along the Minnesota river last year. When placing it,
> I thought, "Hmmmm, it might flood here. Maybe I should come back with
> a line and tie it off to a tree." Before I could come back (and
> before I could ever post to the list), we had heavy rains and it
> apparently went downriver. I still have visions of scuba diving in
> the Gulf and seeing it floating along.
>
> I'll get around to replacing it once the snow melts...