Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
ridge, plus many more!
That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
box as my 10,000th find!
So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
playing loud polka music - what a blast!
So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
finally reaching this landmark number now!
Thanks a bunch,
Wanda from RI
P163 F10012 X1105
I did it - F 10,000!!!
23 messages in this thread |
Started on 2006-03-31
I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 18:39:29 UTC
Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: Jess (jmwestin@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 19:10:12 UTC
My god! Congratulations! I was happy just to reach 200! Way to go!
Jess
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
wrote:
>
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
> joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
> to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
> Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
> church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
> bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
> Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
> all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
> of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
> Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
> different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
> ridge, plus many more!
>
> That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
> there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
> everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
> letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
> through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
> few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
> sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
> March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
> commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
> but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
> morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
> letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
> stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
> as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
> less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
> box as my 10,000th find!
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
> with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
> her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
> headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
> playing loud polka music - what a blast!
>
> So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
> accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
> American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
> listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
> live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
> and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
> could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
> counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
> as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
> anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
> count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
> ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
> finally reaching this landmark number now!
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Wanda from RI
> P163 F10012 X1105
>
Jess
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
>
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
> joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
> to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
> Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
> church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
> bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
> Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
> all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
> of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
> Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
> different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
> ridge, plus many more!
>
> That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
> there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
> everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
> letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
> through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
> few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
> sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
> March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
> commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
> but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
> morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
> letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
> stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
> as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
> less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
> box as my 10,000th find!
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
> with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
> her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
> headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
> playing loud polka music - what a blast!
>
> So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
> accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
> American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
> listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
> live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
> and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
> could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
> counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
> as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
> anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
> count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
> ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
> finally reaching this landmark number now!
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Wanda from RI
> P163 F10012 X1105
>
Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: johnoballou (johnjballou@hotmail.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 19:14:55 UTC
> P163 F10012 X1105
INCREDIBLE! Congrats, and happy boxing to the next 10,000!
jackbear
Re: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: (StDebb@aol.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 14:19:39 UTC-05:00
Go, Wanda!
DebBee
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DebBee
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Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: archimedesscrew17 (sharon@bignachos.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 19:44:02 UTC
You rock, Wanda!
This means I only have 9,767 or so to go to catch up. :)
This means I only have 9,767 or so to go to catch up. :)
Re: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: Donna Magner (donutz716@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 12:02:44 UTC-08:00
That is quite an accomplishment! Many congrats to you and Pete! I loved the way you told the story - sounded like so much fun! So do remember all of the stamps you got so you know which ones you still need? With that many, it must be difficult. Even with my F880, I sometimes visit a box twice.
Enjoy!
donutz716
wandaandpete wrote:
Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
ridge, plus many more!
That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
box as my 10,000th find!
So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
playing loud polka music - what a blast!
So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
finally reaching this landmark number now!
Thanks a bunch,
Wanda from RI
P163 F10012 X1105
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wandaandpete
Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
ridge, plus many more!
That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
box as my 10,000th find!
So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
playing loud polka music - what a blast!
So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
finally reaching this landmark number now!
Thanks a bunch,
Wanda from RI
P163 F10012 X1105
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Re: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: Chuck & Molly (woodschuckstraub@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 12:09:36 UTC-08:00
Congratulations Wanda! Thats a great letterboxing
achievement. Best wishes from your friends Chuck,
Chickabirdie, and Molly
--- wandaandpete wrote:
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that
> I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd
> better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would
> think it was a
> joke!)
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> I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd
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Re: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: (SawnSJ@aol.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 15:26:45 UTC-05:00
WOW - congratulations!! It was fun reading about your adventure!!!
Tom & Suz
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Re: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: Tattoo (nancyanna4200@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 13:31:01 UTC-08:00
Way to go, Wanda !!!!!
wandaandpete wrote: Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
ridge, plus many more!
That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
box as my 10,000th find!
So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
playing loud polka music - what a blast!
So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
finally reaching this landmark number now!
Thanks a bunch,
Wanda from RI
P163 F10012 X1105
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wandaandpete
10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
ridge, plus many more!
That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
box as my 10,000th find!
So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
playing loud polka music - what a blast!
So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
finally reaching this landmark number now!
Thanks a bunch,
Wanda from RI
P163 F10012 X1105
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RE: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: Gretchen Caldwell (boston.rott@verizon.net) |
Date: 2006-03-31 17:52:29 UTC-05:00
Very very nice!! Was fun to find your stamp in my boxes last week! :-)
BostonRott
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Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: cahillymom (acahilly@prodigy.net) |
Date: 2006-03-31 23:20:30 UTC
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
wrote:
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up
high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more
boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite!
Congratulations! and thank you! I needed a good excuse to go get
Chinese food for dinner tonight! Now we will eat it in your honor.
Come do a sweep of Jersey again soon; I miss seeing your stamp in the
all the newer boxes.
Aud
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up
high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more
boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite!
Congratulations! and thank you! I needed a good excuse to go get
Chinese food for dinner tonight! Now we will eat it in your honor.
Come do a sweep of Jersey again soon; I miss seeing your stamp in the
all the newer boxes.
Aud
Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: Pat, Michelle, Chris, Adam, Dakota, Autumn (teamdakota5@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 23:54:42 UTC
Wanda We wish you the best. We are Happy for you and hope another
10,000 boxes are in your future. --- In letterbox-
usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete" wrote:
>
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it
done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
> joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday
afternoon
> to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in
RI.
> Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
> church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
> bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to
make
> Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty
much
> all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
> of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge
and
> Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
> different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
> ridge, plus many more!
>
> That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
> there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
> everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
> letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
> through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
> few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100
near
> sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999
at "Holidays:
> March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
> commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in
RI,
> but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the
next
> morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
> letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
> stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the
year
> as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of
the
> less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have
this
> box as my 10,000th find!
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up
high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more
boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
> with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
> her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
> headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
> playing loud polka music - what a blast!
>
> So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
> accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
> American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
> listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
> live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
> and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
> could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
> counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes
listed
> as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
> anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer
keeping
> count the way we describe in an interview done with us several
years
> ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
> finally reaching this landmark number now!
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Wanda from RI
> P163 F10012 X1105
>
10,000 boxes are in your future. --- In letterbox-
usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
>
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it
done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
> joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday
afternoon
> to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in
RI.
> Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
> church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
> bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to
make
> Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty
much
> all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
> of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge
and
> Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
> different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
> ridge, plus many more!
>
> That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
> there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
> everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
> letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
> through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
> few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100
near
> sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999
at "Holidays:
> March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
> commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in
RI,
> but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the
next
> morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
> letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
> stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the
year
> as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of
the
> less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have
this
> box as my 10,000th find!
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up
high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more
boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
> with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
> her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
> headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
> playing loud polka music - what a blast!
>
> So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
> accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
> American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
> listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
> live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
> and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
> could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
> counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes
listed
> as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
> anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer
keeping
> count the way we describe in an interview done with us several
years
> ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
> finally reaching this landmark number now!
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Wanda from RI
> P163 F10012 X1105
>
Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: sue_sojourner (sldp@optonline.net) |
Date: 2006-04-01 00:06:02 UTC
Congratulations, Wanda!!! That is an amazing number!
sojourner
sojourner
Re: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: Barefoot Lucy (barefootlucy@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 17:12:47 UTC-08:00
Unbelievable - you are amazing!
What a neat story yours is - and how it inspires the
rest of us to strive to make 10,000 finds seem
mundane! I wonder what YOUR F count will be when that
day comes?
I hope you'll be able to swing back down to Texas one
of these days and count some of my boxes among your
next 10,000, but meanwhile I'm so glad my personal
stamp is counted among your X1105 - it was a great
pleasure meeting you at the Texas gathering last year!
BarefootLucy
--- wandaandpete wrote:
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that
> I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd
> better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would
> think it was a
> joke!)
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What a neat story yours is - and how it inspires the
rest of us to strive to make 10,000 finds seem
mundane! I wonder what YOUR F count will be when that
day comes?
I hope you'll be able to swing back down to Texas one
of these days and count some of my boxes among your
next 10,000, but meanwhile I'm so glad my personal
stamp is counted among your X1105 - it was a great
pleasure meeting you at the Texas gathering last year!
BarefootLucy
--- wandaandpete
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that
> I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd
> better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would
> think it was a
> joke!)
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Re: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: david baril (gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 19:34:28 UTC-08:00
i am so jealous. i am no where near that. bummer!
chillin in the warm spring air
david (team new hampshire)
wandaandpete wrote:
Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
ridge, plus many more!
That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
box as my 10,000th find!
So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
playing loud polka music - what a blast!
So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
finally reaching this landmark number now!
Thanks a bunch,
Wanda from RI
P163 F10012 X1105
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chillin in the warm spring air
david (team new hampshire)
wandaandpete
Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
ridge, plus many more!
That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
box as my 10,000th find!
So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
playing loud polka music - what a blast!
So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
finally reaching this landmark number now!
Thanks a bunch,
Wanda from RI
P163 F10012 X1105
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Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: cclightningbug (cclightningbug@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-04-01 04:12:04 UTC
You're my hero, Wanda. The enthusiasm and enjoyment that characterizes
the way you embrace this hobby makes us all look good. I am in awe of
how you have found so many boxes, yet always take the time to write
thoughtful comments in each of their logs. It is such a pleasure and
honor to know you. Archimedes' Screw and I are working on some
contributions for F15,000.
Hope to see you back on the Cape trails soon,
Cape Cod Lightning Bug
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
wrote:
>
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
> joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
> to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
> Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
> church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
> bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
> Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
> all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
> of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
> Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
> different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
> ridge, plus many more!
>
> That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
> there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
> everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
> letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
> through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
> few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
> sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
> March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
> commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
> but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
> morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
> letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
> stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
> as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
> less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
> box as my 10,000th find!
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
> with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
> her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
> headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
> playing loud polka music - what a blast!
>
> So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
> accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
> American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
> listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
> live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
> and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
> could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
> counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
> as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
> anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
> count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
> ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
> finally reaching this landmark number now!
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Wanda from RI
> P163 F10012 X1105
>
the way you embrace this hobby makes us all look good. I am in awe of
how you have found so many boxes, yet always take the time to write
thoughtful comments in each of their logs. It is such a pleasure and
honor to know you. Archimedes' Screw and I are working on some
contributions for F15,000.
Hope to see you back on the Cape trails soon,
Cape Cod Lightning Bug
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
>
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
> joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last Sunday afternoon
> to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends" remaining for us in RI.
> Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer work to do at
> church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to bring smaller
> bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so I decided to make
> Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already done pretty much
> all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to the "other side
> of the river" to make a big sweep through Wallingford, Woodbridge and
> Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on various trails in
> different areas, I finally got all the boxes along the Beacon Cap
> ridge, plus many more!
>
> That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one of my friends
> there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of that flower
> everwhere we went last year when I first introduced her to
> letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day for a quick swing
> through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but picked up quite a
> few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing Irene to F100 near
> sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to F9999 at "Holidays:
> March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the special
> commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant for me back in RI,
> but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South Yarmouth, so the next
> morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of the Dog"
> letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful job on this
> stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic meaning of the year
> as a time for less selfishness and increased social awareness of the
> less powerful among us) that I was absolutely delighted to have this
> box as my 10,000th find!
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and 60's swung up high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for a few more boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to meet up
> with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after school to tell
> her how happy we were with our letterboxing adventures, and then we
> headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely gorgeous sunset and
> playing loud polka music - what a blast!
>
> So, once again I just want to thank everyone who made this
> accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big deal for North
> American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed 20,000+ plants
> listed as available to find "on-line", but to actually have a real
> live person who went out "on trail" and found over 10,000 of them -
> and has the many many books full of stamps to prove it! Actually, I
> could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while ago, if I
> counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial boxes, boxes listed
> as missing before either of us could find them that we searched for
> anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but I prefer keeping
> count the way we describe in an interview done with us several years
> ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just really glad to be
> finally reaching this landmark number now!
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Wanda from RI
> P163 F10012 X1105
>
Re: [LbNA] I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: bret bridwell (dekulink69@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-03-31 20:14:30 UTC-08:00
congrats wanda.
thats great. what a role model you have become for all
us newboxers. something for us to look forward to.
hopefully someday i can find one of your boxes.
later days, dragonrider83338
--- wandaandpete wrote:
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that
> I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd
> better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would
> think it was a
> joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last
> Sunday afternoon
> to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends"
> remaining for us in RI.
> Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer
> work to do at
> church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to
> bring smaller
> bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so
> I decided to make
> Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already
> done pretty much
> all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to
> the "other side
> of the river" to make a big sweep through
> Wallingford, Woodbridge and
> Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on
> various trails in
> different areas, I finally got all the boxes along
> the Beacon Cap
> ridge, plus many more!
>
> That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one
> of my friends
> there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of
> that flower
> everwhere we went last year when I first introduced
> her to
> letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day
> for a quick swing
> through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but
> picked up quite a
> few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing
> Irene to F100 near
> sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to
> F9999 at "Holidays:
> March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the
> special
> commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant
> for me back in RI,
> but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South
> Yarmouth, so the next
> morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of
> the Dog"
> letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful
> job on this
> stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic
> meaning of the year
> as a time for less selfishness and increased social
> awareness of the
> less powerful among us) that I was absolutely
> delighted to have this
> box as my 10,000th find!
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and
> 60's swung up high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby
> swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for
> a few more boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis
> for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super
> Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to
> meet up
> with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after
> school to tell
> her how happy we were with our letterboxing
> adventures, and then we
> headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely
> gorgeous sunset and
> playing loud polka music - what a blast!
>
> So, once again I just want to thank everyone who
> made this
> accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big
> deal for North
> American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed
> 20,000+ plants
> listed as available to find "on-line", but to
> actually have a real
> live person who went out "on trail" and found over
> 10,000 of them -
> and has the many many books full of stamps to prove
> it! Actually, I
> could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while
> ago, if I
> counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial
> boxes, boxes listed
> as missing before either of us could find them that
> we searched for
> anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but
> I prefer keeping
> count the way we describe in an interview done with
> us several years
> ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just
> really glad to be
> finally reaching this landmark number now!
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Wanda from RI
> P163 F10012 X1105
>
>
>
>
>
>
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thats great. what a role model you have become for all
us newboxers. something for us to look forward to.
hopefully someday i can find one of your boxes.
later days, dragonrider83338
--- wandaandpete
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that
> I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd
> better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would
> think it was a
> joke!) Anyway, Pete and I went out after church last
> Sunday afternoon
> to finish up a few letterboxing "loose ends"
> remaining for us in RI.
> Monday I had a dental appointment, plus volunteer
> work to do at
> church ( rearranging the big floral arrangements to
> bring smaller
> bouquets to shut-ins in nursing homes and such), so
> I decided to make
> Tuesday my big "CT wrap-up boxing day". I'd already
> done pretty much
> all the nearer CT boxes, so I got an early start to
> the "other side
> of the river" to make a big sweep through
> Wallingford, Woodbridge and
> Naugatuck. By hiking over 20 miles that day on
> various trails in
> different areas, I finally got all the boxes along
> the Beacon Cap
> ridge, plus many more!
>
> That evening back in RI at Polish Club, I asked one
> of my friends
> there (now known as "Hibiscus" for the prevalence of
> that flower
> everwhere we went last year when I first introduced
> her to
> letterboxing in Florida!) to join me the next day
> for a quick swing
> through Cape Cod. We got a rather late start, but
> picked up quite a
> few boxes out there Wednesday afternoon, bringing
> Irene to F100 near
> sunset at "Wychmere Harbor" in Harwich, and me to
> F9999 at "Holidays:
> March" nearby! I was going to leave F10,000 for the
> special
> commemorative box that Pete was planning to plant
> for me back in RI,
> but Irene and I stayed over at a motel in South
> Yarmouth, so the next
> morning we just had to go out to the nearby "Year of
> the Dog"
> letterbox! "Archimedes' Screw" did such a wonderful
> job on this
> stamp, logbook, and story (including the symbolic
> meaning of the year
> as a time for less selfishness and increased social
> awareness of the
> less powerful among us) that I was absolutely
> delighted to have this
> box as my 10,000th find!
>
> So, afterwards we two "old ladies" in our 50's and
> 60's swung up high
> into the air like happy children on the nearby
> swings! Then we went
> down to the Dunkin Donuts and onward up the Cape for
> a few more boxes
> nearer the shore before heading back towards Hyannis
> for our
> celebratory Chinese lunch at the Cape Cod Super
> Buffet - our
> traditional letterboxing favorite! We even got to
> meet up
> with "Archimedes' Screw" later that afternnon after
> school to tell
> her how happy we were with our letterboxing
> adventures, and then we
> headed back to RI while viewing an absolutely
> gorgeous sunset and
> playing loud polka music - what a blast!
>
> So, once again I just want to thank everyone who
> made this
> accomplishment possible. I think it really is a big
> deal for North
> American letterboxing, not only to have a supposed
> 20,000+ plants
> listed as available to find "on-line", but to
> actually have a real
> live person who went out "on trail" and found over
> 10,000 of them -
> and has the many many books full of stamps to prove
> it! Actually, I
> could have said that I reached F10,000 quite a while
> ago, if I
> counted all the multiple stamps in boxes, partial
> boxes, boxes listed
> as missing before either of us could find them that
> we searched for
> anyway, hitchers we found multiple times, etc., but
> I prefer keeping
> count the way we describe in an interview done with
> us several years
> ago ( see "About Us" on our webpage), so I'm just
> really glad to be
> finally reaching this landmark number now!
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> Wanda from RI
> P163 F10012 X1105
>
>
>
>
>
>
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RE: [LbNA] Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: Maribeth Jagger (cjagger405@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2006-03-31 22:30:53 UTC-06:00
I just did a little math and figured if a person found five boxes everyday of the year, it would only take five and a half years to find 10,000 boxes. However, if you really buckled down, you could accomplish that in one year if you found 27 a day! Heck, what's the big deal? Seriously, congratulations Wanda and Pete. I'm sure your record will last as long as Babe Ruth's has!
Puddle Splasher
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Puddle Splasher
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RE: [LbNA] Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: MaryAnn Lockard (mizscarlet731@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-04-01 03:06:07 UTC-08:00
I always wondered how Wanda and Pete could find so
many boxes, then I had the opportunity to box with
them. I had to jog to keep up!
--- Maribeth Jagger wrote:
> I just did a little math and figured if a person
> found five boxes everyday of the year, it would only
> take five and a half years to find 10,000 boxes.
> However, if you really buckled down, you could
> accomplish that in one year if you found 27 a day!
> Heck, what's the big deal? Seriously,
> congratulations Wanda and Pete. I'm sure your record
> will last as long as Babe Ruth's has!
> Puddle Splasher
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
> letterbox-usa-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
>
>
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many boxes, then I had the opportunity to box with
them. I had to jog to keep up!
--- Maribeth Jagger
> I just did a little math and figured if a person
> found five boxes everyday of the year, it would only
> take five and a half years to find 10,000 boxes.
> However, if you really buckled down, you could
> accomplish that in one year if you found 27 a day!
> Heck, what's the big deal? Seriously,
> congratulations Wanda and Pete. I'm sure your record
> will last as long as Babe Ruth's has!
> Puddle Splasher
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
> letterbox-usa-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: lord_ladybug (Lord.Ladybug@adelphia.net) |
Date: 2006-04-01 13:34:09 UTC
Wow! Congratualtions! We'd say that was an unbelievable feat, except
that everywhere we go, you have been there before us! You are a role
model to us all.
Lord & Ladybug
that everywhere we go, you have been there before us! You are a role
model to us all.
Lord & Ladybug
RE: [LbNA] Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: pkleingers (pam@kleingers.net) |
Date: 2006-04-01 10:07:07 UTC-05:00
And you have to figure they are good to box for another 30 years or so...
Wanda and Pete, Thanks for being an inspiration to those of us who might be
couch potatoes otherwise!
Mama Stork
aka Pam in Cinci
I just did a little math and figured if a person found five boxes everyday
of the year, it would only take five and a half years to find 10,000 boxes.
However, if you really buckled down, you could accomplish that in one year
if you found 27 a day! Heck, what's the big deal? Seriously, congratulations
Wanda and Pete. I'm sure your record will last as long as Babe Ruth's has!
Puddle Splasher
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Wanda and Pete, Thanks for being an inspiration to those of us who might be
couch potatoes otherwise!
Mama Stork
aka Pam in Cinci
I just did a little math and figured if a person found five boxes everyday
of the year, it would only take five and a half years to find 10,000 boxes.
However, if you really buckled down, you could accomplish that in one year
if you found 27 a day! Heck, what's the big deal? Seriously, congratulations
Wanda and Pete. I'm sure your record will last as long as Babe Ruth's has!
Puddle Splasher
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Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: DonnaMae (Mae62202@AOL.com) |
Date: 2006-04-02 05:44:57 UTC
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early!
Wanda, You go girl :)
Your next 10,000 are waiting for you!!!
The Engraver
Re: I did it - F 10,000!!!
From: cpascott (seh-letterbox@comcast.net) |
Date: 2006-04-03 18:06:03 UTC
Only one thing I can say ...
WOW
Congrats!
CPAScott
(pushing hard to reach but 1/10th of wanda's accomplishment)
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
wrote:
>
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
> joke!)
WOW
Congrats!
CPAScott
(pushing hard to reach but 1/10th of wanda's accomplishment)
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
>
> Well, am I ever delighted to be able to report that I reached my F
> 10,000 goal a few days early! ( I decided that I'd better get it done
> before April Fool's Day just so that no one would think it was a
> joke!)