We're excited to hear that several people around the country, including those from a
couple of newly represented states, have been reaching PFX milestones recently, and we've
finally gotten around to adding their names to our PFX club lists! Newcomers to
letterboxing may not realize that the tradition of keeping a PFX count, and even of getting
patches to commemorate certain milestones, was something that started well before we
ever became involved in this hobby. We were, however, the first ones - long before some
people started logging or managing their boxes on LbNA or Atlas Quest - to maintain a
chronological listing on our website of people as they reached PFX 500 and subsequent
milestones, starting with that first little "poem" of mine from 5 years ago! (message
#7772 on the "big list"). Anyway,we just thought we'd let folks out there know, in case
they hadn't yet heard or had forgotten about this. that we are still happy to list those who
reach PFX 500 or more on our web page. Just let us know about when you reached a
particular milestone, and we'll be glad to add your name and date. (We might have to
check your credentials, though, if you say your name is Mr Pujeh! :-)
As for those recent additions, our PFX 500 list now includes the Knights of Colombo from
VA, Lock Wench from NY, Eidolon and Artemis from GA, and Aili and Bruce from CT!
Please take a look at the "PFX Clubs" section of our web page at http://alum.wpi.edu/
~p_miner/Letterboxes.html, and let us know about making any other additions,
corrections, or whatever! And let's not forget about those two CT teachers and
letterboxing "super-achievers", Bluebird (Debby) and Music Woman (Pam), who both
recently reached PFX 5000!!! These gals are well known locally for always being "hot on
the trail of a good mystery", too, so we are especially looking forward to seeing what
Bluebird and FishorMan have in store for us at the "gathering of mysteries" tomorrow in
Killingworth, CT!
As far as our own letterboxing adventures, we've been taking it sort of easy lately between
heat waves and my being bitten by a dog recently while letterboxing up in the mountains
of NH! Personally, I'm trying not to take on any extra new goals for the moment. I had
considered setting a goal for myself of doing a "decade of 25,000 letterboxes", to go
along with my earlier "decade of 25,000 miles of solo long-distance backpacking" ( 5 AT's,
3 PCT's, the CDT, and many, other trails that I backpacked mostly in the '80's and '90's
and that I'll have to get Pete to list on our web page one of these days before I forget
them all!) Anyway, I had thought that surely collecting 25,000 letterboxes would be much
easier than carrying a full backpack up and down the backbones of America's toughest
mountain trails for over 25,000 miles, but what with the price of gas for driving all over
going almost continually uphill and me going mostly downhill, I just might have to give up
that particular long-term letterboxing goal!However, I am glad that over a month ago now
I reached the point of having found over 10,000 "traditional letterboxes", so that even
without counting a single hitchhiker, personal traveler, event stamp, table topper, cootie,
PLB, virtual box, or any of the other things that some people count, I can now say that I
have now gone well over the F 10,000 mark with no "fillers" whatsoever!
The main point I want to make here now, though, is that, however people may count their
letterboxing plants and finds, I'm just glad that so many people out there still do take the
time to do that. Not that it takes much time, really. Anyone who has taken the time to
count out 500 paces or so to find a CT State Forest DEP letterbox knows that it takes
about the same amount of time to count off 500 paces as it does to count through 500
letterbox stamp images, namely, about 10 minutes!!! Even for us to go back through and
count all of our thousands of stamp images would only take a couple of hours, so it's
definitely not an issue of time! For those who don't want to keep track of their numbers,
for whatever other reasons, that's fine, but for those who do count, here's a little bonus -
no bells or whistles or trophies or badges, just a cute little line of happy dancing PFX-
heads holding a banner that says "We Count, Too!" So, whether your count is 1 or 1001, all
you have to do, when you see us, is tell us you count,
and, to quote Mr. Pujeh, you will "increase your PFX count by at least one"!
And please feel free to read the little poem that I wrote to go along with this stamp (P161)
in the "Clues" section of our web page, too, if you get a chance!
Congratulations once again to all those reaching PFX goals, and hope you all keep on
happy 'boxing, and counting if you can!
Cheers,
Wanda and Pete
Happy dance PFX-heads ... and still counting!
2 messages in this thread |
Started on 2006-08-19
Happy dance PFX-heads ... and still counting!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-08-19 20:14:25 UTC
Re: Happy dance PFX-heads ... and still counting!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2006-09-08 14:16:45 UTC
Just had to say how nice it was to get e-mail from folks all around
the country about how they enjoy keeping track of their PFX counts!
It seems like keeping track of things like that is a natural part of
human nature, and I was sad to hear that some people felt bullied
into thinking that they shouldn't do it! The only problem seemed to
be distinguishing between STAMPS and FINDS, and all I can say to
that is that we call it "PFX" (NOT "PSX"!) for a reason. It seems to
me that letterboxing is about FINDING BOXES, and not about how many
pretty stamps, from whatever source, one accumulates in logbooks -
otherwise our hobby would quickly degenerate into mere "stamp
collecting"! (People could just go to the stamp store or the post
office or whatever, if all they were interested in were the "stamps"
and not the actual experience of doing the "finds" which to me
constitute the true essence of "letterboxing"!)
Anyway, however you count, we hope to have the "Happy Dancing PFX-
heads" available at all the upcoming gatherings we are planning to
attend, so just come up and tell us you count to get the stamp!
Almost everyone at the recent "Gathering of Mysteries" in CT signed
in and wrote down their PFX counts, too! We were also thrilled that
virtually everone there signed on for that "Magical Mystery Cruise"
we mentioned in our last post, too, so please feel free to go back
and search that post if you want more information on the next "port
of call". And even mapsurfer's "LbNA 500" box turned up again - it
seems that some folks just couldn't quite wait their turn to get
that stamp and then forgot that others in line ahead of them might
have been waiting, but that's just part of human nature, too. Now
let's just back out to the "fun of the hunt"!
Cheers,
Wanda and Pete
P178 F11508 X1239
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
wrote:
>
> We're excited to hear that several people around the country,
including those from a
> couple of newly represented states, have been reaching PFX
milestones recently, and we've
> finally gotten around to adding their names to our PFX club
lists! Newcomers to
> letterboxing may not realize that the tradition of keeping a PFX
count, and even of getting
> patches to commemorate certain milestones, was something that
started well before we
> ever became involved in this hobby. We were, however, the first
ones - long before some
> people started logging or managing their boxes on LbNA or Atlas
Quest - to maintain a
> chronological listing on our website of people as they reached PFX
500 and subsequent
> milestones, starting with that first little "poem" of mine from 5
years ago! (message
> #7772 on the "big list"). Anyway,we just thought we'd let folks
out there know, in case
> they hadn't yet heard or had forgotten about this. that we are
still happy to list those who
> reach PFX 500 or more on our web page. Just let us know about when
you reached a
> particular milestone, and we'll be glad to add your name and date.
(We might have to
> check your credentials, though, if you say your name is Mr
Pujeh! :-)
>
> As for those recent additions, our PFX 500 list now includes the
Knights of Colombo from
> VA, Lock Wench from NY, Eidolon and Artemis from GA, and Aili
and Bruce from CT!
> Please take a look at the "PFX Clubs" section of our web page at
http://alum.wpi.edu/
> ~p_miner/Letterboxes.html, and let us know about making any
other additions,
> corrections, or whatever! And let's not forget about those two CT
teachers and
> letterboxing "super-achievers", Bluebird (Debby) and Music Woman
(Pam), who both
> recently reached PFX 5000!!! These gals are well known locally
for always being "hot on
> the trail of a good mystery", too, so we are especially looking
forward to seeing what
> Bluebird and FishorMan have in store for us at the "gathering of
mysteries" tomorrow in
> Killingworth, CT!
>
> As far as our own letterboxing adventures, we've been taking it
sort of easy lately between
> heat waves and my being bitten by a dog recently while
letterboxing up in the mountains
> of NH! Personally, I'm trying not to take on any extra new goals
for the moment. I had
> considered setting a goal for myself of doing a "decade of 25,000
letterboxes", to go
> along with my earlier "decade of 25,000 miles of solo long-
distance backpacking" ( 5 AT's,
> 3 PCT's, the CDT, and many, other trails that I backpacked mostly
in the '80's and '90's
> and that I'll have to get Pete to list on our web page one of
these days before I forget
> them all!) Anyway, I had thought that surely collecting 25,000
letterboxes would be much
> easier than carrying a full backpack up and down the backbones of
America's toughest
> mountain trails for over 25,000 miles, but what with the price of
gas for driving all over
> going almost continually uphill and me going mostly downhill, I
just might have to give up
> that particular long-term letterboxing goal!However, I am glad
that over a month ago now
> I reached the point of having found over 10,000 "traditional
letterboxes", so that even
> without counting a single hitchhiker, personal traveler, event
stamp, table topper, cootie,
> PLB, virtual box, or any of the other things that some people
count, I can now say that I
> have now gone well over the F 10,000 mark with no "fillers"
whatsoever!
>
> The main point I want to make here now, though, is that, however
people may count their
> letterboxing plants and finds, I'm just glad that so many people
out there still do take the
> time to do that. Not that it takes much time, really. Anyone who
has taken the time to
> count out 500 paces or so to find a CT State Forest DEP letterbox
knows that it takes
> about the same amount of time to count off 500 paces as it does to
count through 500
> letterbox stamp images, namely, about 10 minutes!!! Even for us
to go back through and
> count all of our thousands of stamp images would only take a
couple of hours, so it's
> definitely not an issue of time! For those who don't want to keep
track of their numbers,
> for whatever other reasons, that's fine, but for those who do
count, here's a little bonus -
> no bells or whistles or trophies or badges, just a cute little
line of happy dancing PFX-
> heads holding a banner that says "We Count, Too!" So, whether your
count is 1 or 1001, all
> you have to do, when you see us, is tell us you count,
> and, to quote Mr. Pujeh, you will "increase your PFX count by at
least one"!
> And please feel free to read the little poem that I wrote to go
along with this stamp (P161)
> in the "Clues" section of our web page, too, if you get a chance!
>
> Congratulations once again to all those reaching PFX goals, and
hope you all keep on
> happy 'boxing, and counting if you can!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda and Pete
>
the country about how they enjoy keeping track of their PFX counts!
It seems like keeping track of things like that is a natural part of
human nature, and I was sad to hear that some people felt bullied
into thinking that they shouldn't do it! The only problem seemed to
be distinguishing between STAMPS and FINDS, and all I can say to
that is that we call it "PFX" (NOT "PSX"!) for a reason. It seems to
me that letterboxing is about FINDING BOXES, and not about how many
pretty stamps, from whatever source, one accumulates in logbooks -
otherwise our hobby would quickly degenerate into mere "stamp
collecting"! (People could just go to the stamp store or the post
office or whatever, if all they were interested in were the "stamps"
and not the actual experience of doing the "finds" which to me
constitute the true essence of "letterboxing"!)
Anyway, however you count, we hope to have the "Happy Dancing PFX-
heads" available at all the upcoming gatherings we are planning to
attend, so just come up and tell us you count to get the stamp!
Almost everyone at the recent "Gathering of Mysteries" in CT signed
in and wrote down their PFX counts, too! We were also thrilled that
virtually everone there signed on for that "Magical Mystery Cruise"
we mentioned in our last post, too, so please feel free to go back
and search that post if you want more information on the next "port
of call". And even mapsurfer's "LbNA 500" box turned up again - it
seems that some folks just couldn't quite wait their turn to get
that stamp and then forgot that others in line ahead of them might
have been waiting, but that's just part of human nature, too. Now
let's just back out to the "fun of the hunt"!
Cheers,
Wanda and Pete
P178 F11508 X1239
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
>
> We're excited to hear that several people around the country,
including those from a
> couple of newly represented states, have been reaching PFX
milestones recently, and we've
> finally gotten around to adding their names to our PFX club
lists! Newcomers to
> letterboxing may not realize that the tradition of keeping a PFX
count, and even of getting
> patches to commemorate certain milestones, was something that
started well before we
> ever became involved in this hobby. We were, however, the first
ones - long before some
> people started logging or managing their boxes on LbNA or Atlas
Quest - to maintain a
> chronological listing on our website of people as they reached PFX
500 and subsequent
> milestones, starting with that first little "poem" of mine from 5
years ago! (message
> #7772 on the "big list"). Anyway,we just thought we'd let folks
out there know, in case
> they hadn't yet heard or had forgotten about this. that we are
still happy to list those who
> reach PFX 500 or more on our web page. Just let us know about when
you reached a
> particular milestone, and we'll be glad to add your name and date.
(We might have to
> check your credentials, though, if you say your name is Mr
Pujeh! :-)
>
> As for those recent additions, our PFX 500 list now includes the
Knights of Colombo from
> VA, Lock Wench from NY, Eidolon and Artemis from GA, and Aili
and Bruce from CT!
> Please take a look at the "PFX Clubs" section of our web page at
http://alum.wpi.edu/
> ~p_miner/Letterboxes.html, and let us know about making any
other additions,
> corrections, or whatever! And let's not forget about those two CT
teachers and
> letterboxing "super-achievers", Bluebird (Debby) and Music Woman
(Pam), who both
> recently reached PFX 5000!!! These gals are well known locally
for always being "hot on
> the trail of a good mystery", too, so we are especially looking
forward to seeing what
> Bluebird and FishorMan have in store for us at the "gathering of
mysteries" tomorrow in
> Killingworth, CT!
>
> As far as our own letterboxing adventures, we've been taking it
sort of easy lately between
> heat waves and my being bitten by a dog recently while
letterboxing up in the mountains
> of NH! Personally, I'm trying not to take on any extra new goals
for the moment. I had
> considered setting a goal for myself of doing a "decade of 25,000
letterboxes", to go
> along with my earlier "decade of 25,000 miles of solo long-
distance backpacking" ( 5 AT's,
> 3 PCT's, the CDT, and many, other trails that I backpacked mostly
in the '80's and '90's
> and that I'll have to get Pete to list on our web page one of
these days before I forget
> them all!) Anyway, I had thought that surely collecting 25,000
letterboxes would be much
> easier than carrying a full backpack up and down the backbones of
America's toughest
> mountain trails for over 25,000 miles, but what with the price of
gas for driving all over
> going almost continually uphill and me going mostly downhill, I
just might have to give up
> that particular long-term letterboxing goal!However, I am glad
that over a month ago now
> I reached the point of having found over 10,000 "traditional
letterboxes", so that even
> without counting a single hitchhiker, personal traveler, event
stamp, table topper, cootie,
> PLB, virtual box, or any of the other things that some people
count, I can now say that I
> have now gone well over the F 10,000 mark with no "fillers"
whatsoever!
>
> The main point I want to make here now, though, is that, however
people may count their
> letterboxing plants and finds, I'm just glad that so many people
out there still do take the
> time to do that. Not that it takes much time, really. Anyone who
has taken the time to
> count out 500 paces or so to find a CT State Forest DEP letterbox
knows that it takes
> about the same amount of time to count off 500 paces as it does to
count through 500
> letterbox stamp images, namely, about 10 minutes!!! Even for us
to go back through and
> count all of our thousands of stamp images would only take a
couple of hours, so it's
> definitely not an issue of time! For those who don't want to keep
track of their numbers,
> for whatever other reasons, that's fine, but for those who do
count, here's a little bonus -
> no bells or whistles or trophies or badges, just a cute little
line of happy dancing PFX-
> heads holding a banner that says "We Count, Too!" So, whether your
count is 1 or 1001, all
> you have to do, when you see us, is tell us you count,
> and, to quote Mr. Pujeh, you will "increase your PFX count by at
least one"!
> And please feel free to read the little poem that I wrote to go
along with this stamp (P161)
> in the "Clues" section of our web page, too, if you get a chance!
>
> Congratulations once again to all those reaching PFX goals, and
hope you all keep on
> happy 'boxing, and counting if you can!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda and Pete
>