Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who came down to the Burlingame Picnic Area
yesterday evening in Charlestown, RI to help make my PFX 20K celebration picnic so very
special! What a treat to see some old letterboxing friends and meet some new ones,
sample a delightful variety of food that folks brought to share, and even find a few
letterbox surprises!!! I loved being able to sneak in a couple of plants at the last moment,
like that "sassy gal with the 12 slender legs" and the picnic basket box carved by the
Compass Cuties, who also helped find a good quick rest spot for it before it gets its more
permanent home. Then, of course, Warrior Woman's pretty piney event stamp really "took
the cake" (you just had to see the cake to get it!:-), and Laurette's cute little surprise box
"Wanda Queen of Letterboxland" just blew me away and made me feel like "Queen for a
Day"! Patrick and Amy's "Busy Bee" - soon to fly away - reminded me of just how busy I've
been these past few years following our "sweet honey of a North American letterboxing
circuit", and Sparky Butterfly's nice stash of carving material will probably keep me busy
carving for a good long time to come (and also contained one of the prettiest logbooks I've
ever seen!) Many thanks to all of you who came to help me celebrate this special
letterboxing milestone, to all who have hosted gatherings all around the country through
the years, and of course to all who have planted, found and cared for the little boxes that
keep this hobby going! What a great bunch you all are!
Cheers,
Wanda from RI
P279 F18119 X1738
PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
4 messages in this thread |
Started on 2008-06-30
PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2008-06-30 00:18:48 UTC
RE: [LbNA] PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
From: Debbie Kotlarek (kotlarek@wi.rr.com) |
Date: 2008-06-29 19:32:53 UTC-05:00
Congrats! Glad to hear you had such a nice party! Sorry we couldn't be
there to help you celebrate. Best wishes to both you & Pete on your future
hiking & boxing adventures!
Wisconsin Hiker & Martini Man
-----Original Message-----
From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com [mailto:letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com]On
Behalf Of wandaandpete
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:19 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who came down to the Burlingame
Picnic Area
yesterday evening in Charlestown, RI to help make my PFX 20K celebration
picnic so very
special! What a treat to see some old letterboxing friends and meet some new
ones,
sample a delightful variety of food that folks brought to share, and even
find a few
letterbox surprises!!! I loved being able to sneak in a couple of plants at
the last moment,
like that "sassy gal with the 12 slender legs" and the picnic basket box
carved by the
Compass Cuties, who also helped find a good quick rest spot for it before it
gets its more
permanent home. Then, of course, Warrior Woman's pretty piney event stamp
really "took
the cake" (you just had to see the cake to get it!:-), and Laurette's cute
little surprise box
"Wanda Queen of Letterboxland" just blew me away and made me feel like
"Queen for a
Day"! Patrick and Amy's "Busy Bee" - soon to fly away - reminded me of just
how busy I've
been these past few years following our "sweet honey of a North American
letterboxing
circuit", and Sparky Butterfly's nice stash of carving material will
probably keep me busy
carving for a good long time to come (and also contained one of the
prettiest logbooks I've
ever seen!) Many thanks to all of you who came to help me celebrate this
special
letterboxing milestone, to all who have hosted gatherings all around the
country through
the years, and of course to all who have planted, found and cared for the
little boxes that
keep this hobby going! What a great bunch you all are!
Cheers,
Wanda from RI
P279 F18119 X1738
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there to help you celebrate. Best wishes to both you & Pete on your future
hiking & boxing adventures!
Wisconsin Hiker & Martini Man
-----Original Message-----
From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com [mailto:letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com]On
Behalf Of wandaandpete
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 7:19 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who came down to the Burlingame
Picnic Area
yesterday evening in Charlestown, RI to help make my PFX 20K celebration
picnic so very
special! What a treat to see some old letterboxing friends and meet some new
ones,
sample a delightful variety of food that folks brought to share, and even
find a few
letterbox surprises!!! I loved being able to sneak in a couple of plants at
the last moment,
like that "sassy gal with the 12 slender legs" and the picnic basket box
carved by the
Compass Cuties, who also helped find a good quick rest spot for it before it
gets its more
permanent home. Then, of course, Warrior Woman's pretty piney event stamp
really "took
the cake" (you just had to see the cake to get it!:-), and Laurette's cute
little surprise box
"Wanda Queen of Letterboxland" just blew me away and made me feel like
"Queen for a
Day"! Patrick and Amy's "Busy Bee" - soon to fly away - reminded me of just
how busy I've
been these past few years following our "sweet honey of a North American
letterboxing
circuit", and Sparky Butterfly's nice stash of carving material will
probably keep me busy
carving for a good long time to come (and also contained one of the
prettiest logbooks I've
ever seen!) Many thanks to all of you who came to help me celebrate this
special
letterboxing milestone, to all who have hosted gatherings all around the
country through
the years, and of course to all who have planted, found and cared for the
little boxes that
keep this hobby going! What a great bunch you all are!
Cheers,
Wanda from RI
P279 F18119 X1738
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [LbNA] PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
From: Ellen Dill (thetravelersfour@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2008-06-30 03:05:05 UTC-07:00
Wanda and Pete,
You guys know how to throw a really fun picnic! We were so glad to be able to celebrate with you . . . I know you're going to slow down now, right? . . .Seriously, it was a blast, and the stamps were awesome!
~The Travelers Four
--- On Sun, 6/29/08, wandaandpete wrote:
From: wandaandpete
Subject: [LbNA] PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 8:18 PM
Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who came down to the Burlingame Picnic Area
yesterday evening in Charlestown, RI to help make my PFX 20K celebration picnic so very
special! What a treat to see some old letterboxing friends and meet some new ones,
sample a delightful variety of food that folks brought to share, and even find a few
letterbox surprises!!! I loved being able to sneak in a couple of plants at the last moment,
like that "sassy gal with the 12 slender legs" and the picnic basket box carved by the
Compass Cuties, who also helped find a good quick rest spot for it before it gets its more
permanent home. Then, of course, Warrior Woman's pretty piney event stamp really "took
the cake" (you just had to see the cake to get it!:-), and Laurette's cute little surprise box
"Wanda Queen of Letterboxland" just blew me away and made me feel like "Queen for a
Day"! Patrick and Amy's "Busy Bee" - soon to fly away - reminded me of just how busy I've
been these past few years following our "sweet honey of a North American letterboxing
circuit", and Sparky Butterfly's nice stash of carving material will probably keep me busy
carving for a good long time to come (and also contained one of the prettiest logbooks I've
ever seen!) Many thanks to all of you who came to help me celebrate this special
letterboxing milestone, to all who have hosted gatherings all around the country through
the years, and of course to all who have planted, found and cared for the little boxes that
keep this hobby going! What a great bunch you all are!
Cheers,
Wanda from RI
P279 F18119 X1738
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
You guys know how to throw a really fun picnic! We were so glad to be able to celebrate with you . . . I know you're going to slow down now, right? . . .Seriously, it was a blast, and the stamps were awesome!
~The Travelers Four
--- On Sun, 6/29/08, wandaandpete
From: wandaandpete
Subject: [LbNA] PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, June 29, 2008, 8:18 PM
Just wanted to say thanks again to everyone who came down to the Burlingame Picnic Area
yesterday evening in Charlestown, RI to help make my PFX 20K celebration picnic so very
special! What a treat to see some old letterboxing friends and meet some new ones,
sample a delightful variety of food that folks brought to share, and even find a few
letterbox surprises!!! I loved being able to sneak in a couple of plants at the last moment,
like that "sassy gal with the 12 slender legs" and the picnic basket box carved by the
Compass Cuties, who also helped find a good quick rest spot for it before it gets its more
permanent home. Then, of course, Warrior Woman's pretty piney event stamp really "took
the cake" (you just had to see the cake to get it!:-), and Laurette's cute little surprise box
"Wanda Queen of Letterboxland" just blew me away and made me feel like "Queen for a
Day"! Patrick and Amy's "Busy Bee" - soon to fly away - reminded me of just how busy I've
been these past few years following our "sweet honey of a North American letterboxing
circuit", and Sparky Butterfly's nice stash of carving material will probably keep me busy
carving for a good long time to come (and also contained one of the prettiest logbooks I've
ever seen!) Many thanks to all of you who came to help me celebrate this special
letterboxing milestone, to all who have hosted gatherings all around the country through
the years, and of course to all who have planted, found and cared for the little boxes that
keep this hobby going! What a great bunch you all are!
Cheers,
Wanda from RI
P279 F18119 X1738
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [LbNA] PFX 20K Picnic Gathering - Thanks for coming!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2008-07-04 03:46:30 UTC
Yes, Ellen, I am planning to slow down, and already have - considerably! Not only is the
chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia still kicking my butt from time to time (like right now, for
instance!), but I'm just plain tired of reading clues all the time and running around chasing
down little boxes almost every single day! (As I keep telling folks, I just need to kick back
now and again with a good old book as a change of pace from a steady diet of letterbox
clues, and, whereas some folks take a vacation FOR letterboxing, I've been boxing so hard
and for so long that I need to take a vacation FROM letterboxing!:-)
Seriously, though, I still love letterboxing, and hope to continue to do so for quite a while
yet, but I've definitely become more selective. Just like on my last trip down to the
Southern Appalachians, I stayed out hiking in the mountains almost the whole time and
enjoyed many boxes that rarely if ever get visited. I only dropped down out of the
mountains for a couple of days of "urban boxing", mostly in the Gatlinburg and Asheville
areas, which were not nearly as appealing to me as the mountain hikes, so please don't
expect me to go chasing after all those "easy pickin's" that are so popular with some of the
newer folks nowadays, although I'm sure we've all enjoyed a few of them!
Of course, with limited time and energy left, if I mostly try to do just the longer letterbox
hunts that more appeal to me, I'll never get to my originally stated goal of PFX 25,000
(unless I were to resort to considering virtuals, postals, cooties and such as "letterboxing",
but that will certainly never happen!:-) And I still intend to keep my percentage of
gathering-type "SWOH" ("Stamps without Hikes or Hunts") well below 5% of my total
count, so I definitely need to continue to do considerably more real letterbox "hunting"
rather than "gathering"! But, even if I never reach that next goal, that's OK because I'm
just so glad that I got to celebrate PFX 20K and know that I've worked longer and harder at
letterboxing - just like I did with my 25,000-plus miles of long-distance backpacking in
the 80's and 90's - than most folks could ever even begin to imagine!
So, after what seems like years of spending more nights "camping out", on the trail or on
the road, than sleeping at home, getting bleary-eyed with late night clue reading, getting
up at the crack of dawn to climb a snowy mountain or cross a sweltering desert - yes, it's
definitely time to slow down. Nowadays it seems Pete and I almost never even get going
before noon, and I'm finally coming to realize that there are going to be quite a few states,
people and places that I just won't be able to get back to visit, as I had once hoped. All I
can say is that I'm really glad that I got to hike in all 50 states and visit many other
countries while I could, and now I'll probably be staying closer to home. Oh, I'll still
letterbox when the spirit moves me, but it's going to be "part-time", not "full-time", and I
hope that people will still be glad, wherever we do get to go, if I take the time to visit
their boxes and write something in their logbooks - even if it's just "thanks"!
Cheers,
Wanda
chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia still kicking my butt from time to time (like right now, for
instance!), but I'm just plain tired of reading clues all the time and running around chasing
down little boxes almost every single day! (As I keep telling folks, I just need to kick back
now and again with a good old book as a change of pace from a steady diet of letterbox
clues, and, whereas some folks take a vacation FOR letterboxing, I've been boxing so hard
and for so long that I need to take a vacation FROM letterboxing!:-)
Seriously, though, I still love letterboxing, and hope to continue to do so for quite a while
yet, but I've definitely become more selective. Just like on my last trip down to the
Southern Appalachians, I stayed out hiking in the mountains almost the whole time and
enjoyed many boxes that rarely if ever get visited. I only dropped down out of the
mountains for a couple of days of "urban boxing", mostly in the Gatlinburg and Asheville
areas, which were not nearly as appealing to me as the mountain hikes, so please don't
expect me to go chasing after all those "easy pickin's" that are so popular with some of the
newer folks nowadays, although I'm sure we've all enjoyed a few of them!
Of course, with limited time and energy left, if I mostly try to do just the longer letterbox
hunts that more appeal to me, I'll never get to my originally stated goal of PFX 25,000
(unless I were to resort to considering virtuals, postals, cooties and such as "letterboxing",
but that will certainly never happen!:-) And I still intend to keep my percentage of
gathering-type "SWOH" ("Stamps without Hikes or Hunts") well below 5% of my total
count, so I definitely need to continue to do considerably more real letterbox "hunting"
rather than "gathering"! But, even if I never reach that next goal, that's OK because I'm
just so glad that I got to celebrate PFX 20K and know that I've worked longer and harder at
letterboxing - just like I did with my 25,000-plus miles of long-distance backpacking in
the 80's and 90's - than most folks could ever even begin to imagine!
So, after what seems like years of spending more nights "camping out", on the trail or on
the road, than sleeping at home, getting bleary-eyed with late night clue reading, getting
up at the crack of dawn to climb a snowy mountain or cross a sweltering desert - yes, it's
definitely time to slow down. Nowadays it seems Pete and I almost never even get going
before noon, and I'm finally coming to realize that there are going to be quite a few states,
people and places that I just won't be able to get back to visit, as I had once hoped. All I
can say is that I'm really glad that I got to hike in all 50 states and visit many other
countries while I could, and now I'll probably be staying closer to home. Oh, I'll still
letterbox when the spirit moves me, but it's going to be "part-time", not "full-time", and I
hope that people will still be glad, wherever we do get to go, if I take the time to visit
their boxes and write something in their logbooks - even if it's just "thanks"!
Cheers,
Wanda