Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
wanted to visit anyway...
Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
The Travelers 4 and many others!
So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate!" near the top
of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
ring in F20K!
So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
Cheers,
Wanda
Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
12 messages in this thread |
Started on 2008-11-06
Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2008-11-06 16:19:24 UTC
Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: gwendontoo (foxsecurity@earthlink.net) |
Date: 2008-11-06 18:38:21 UTC
Congrats Wanda!
Don
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, "wandaandpete"
>
> Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my
letterboxing after reaching PFX
> 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what
happened. Several people
> had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously,
since I was then
> 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think
I was going to be in
> any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only
boxes in places I really
> wanted to visit anyway...
>
> Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest
2000 boxes ever! Going
> out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-
weekend trip into a
> month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going
from dancing at the
> wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I
just couldn't seem to
> stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I
really didn't want to
> visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the
Adirondacks, which was where
> I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I
followed up with a few other
> trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the
week after the big
> gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing
F20,000!!!
>
> I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like
driving all the way up north
> again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost
any of the many terrific
> boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495
beltway around Boston
> would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of
the urban areas that
> we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes
around now outside the
> beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those
in the Andover area
> merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the
Sudbury area beautifully
> covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/Northborough area
delightfully filled by Zess
> and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/Foxboro area plentifully salted
and peppered by
> The Travelers 4 and many others!
>
> So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for
my final push to
> F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th
Birthday Bonanza (the
> Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball
series, and a whole
> bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted
by Ellen, T1 of the
> Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I
hopped on over to
> Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of
international folk
> dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
>
> Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go"
and "Grateful
> Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily
planted by Zess on a pleasant
> loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes,
including a mystery
> that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly
collecting charms on
> Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves
scattered around the
> Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up
to Northborough
> to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful
ones Pete and I had
> done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and
Away:Celebrate!" near the top
> of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to
finish up the last few
> charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-
treaters started
> coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly
dancer outfit, and
> headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween
international folk dance
> partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by
the time I got back
> home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but
what a grand way to
> ring in F20K!
>
> So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking
of having a Little Rhody
> Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming
Sunday, November 9th,
> from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am
hoping to have enough
> time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little
pumpkin stamps
> based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the
past. However, most
> people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you
would like some good
> stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier
and plant some of your
> own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one
carved pumpkin stamp
> to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the
better, so mine won't
> feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome,
too!:-) Anyway, please
> feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the
pond, just north of the
> Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us
for some pumpkin
> pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone
might feel like
> bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it,
and whether or not you
> choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda
>
Re: [LbNA] Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: Diana Newton Wood (diana.newton.wood@gmail.com) |
Date: 2008-11-06 18:47:31 UTC-05:00
Wanda, I am sorry I won't be able to make it!
Glad you could fit in a clutch of celtic in that frenzy :)
DEF
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:38 PM, gwendontoowrote:
>
> Congrats Wanda!
>
> Don
>
> --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com,
> "wandaandpete"
> wrote:
> >
> > Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my
> letterboxing after reaching PFX
> > 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what
> happened. Several people
> > had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously,
> since I was then
> > 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think
> I was going to be in
> > any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only
> boxes in places I really
> > wanted to visit anyway...
> >
> > Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest
> 2000 boxes ever! Going
> > out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-
> weekend trip into a
> > month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going
> from dancing at the
> > wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I
> just couldn't seem to
> > stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I
> really didn't want to
> > visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the
> Adirondacks, which was where
> > I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I
> followed up with a few other
> > trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the
> week after the big
> > gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing
> F20,000!!!
> >
> > I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like
> driving all the way up north
> > again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost
> any of the many terrific
> > boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495
> beltway around Boston
> > would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of
> the urban areas that
> > we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes
> around now outside the
> > beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those
> in the Andover area
> > merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the
> Sudbury area beautifully
> > covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/Northborough area
> delightfully filled by Zess
> > and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/Foxboro area plentifully salted
> and peppered by
> > The Travelers 4 and many others!
> >
> > So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for
> my final push to
> > F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th
> Birthday Bonanza (the
> > Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball
> series, and a whole
> > bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted
> by Ellen, T1 of the
> > Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I
> hopped on over to
> > Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of
> international folk
> > dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
> >
> > Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go"
> and "Grateful
> > Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily
> planted by Zess on a pleasant
> > loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes,
> including a mystery
> > that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly
> collecting charms on
> > Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves
> scattered around the
> > Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up
> to Northborough
> > to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful
> ones Pete and I had
> > done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and
> Away:Celebrate!" near the top
> > of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to
> finish up the last few
> > charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-
> treaters started
> > coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly
> dancer outfit, and
> > headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween
> international folk dance
> > partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by
> the time I got back
> > home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but
> what a grand way to
> > ring in F20K!
> >
> > So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking
> of having a Little Rhody
> > Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming
> Sunday, November 9th,
> > from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am
> hoping to have enough
> > time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little
> pumpkin stamps
> > based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the
> past. However, most
> > people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you
> would like some good
> > stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier
> and plant some of your
> > own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one
> carved pumpkin stamp
> > to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the
> better, so mine won't
> > feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome,
> too!:-) Anyway, please
> > feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the
> pond, just north of the
> > Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us
> for some pumpkin
> > pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone
> might feel like
> > bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it,
> and whether or not you
> > choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wanda
> >
>
>
>
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Glad you could fit in a clutch of celtic in that frenzy :)
DEF
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:38 PM, gwendontoo
>
> Congrats Wanda!
>
> Don
>
> --- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> "wandaandpete"
>
> >
> > Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my
> letterboxing after reaching PFX
> > 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what
> happened. Several people
> > had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously,
> since I was then
> > 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think
> I was going to be in
> > any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only
> boxes in places I really
> > wanted to visit anyway...
> >
> > Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest
> 2000 boxes ever! Going
> > out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-
> weekend trip into a
> > month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going
> from dancing at the
> > wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I
> just couldn't seem to
> > stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I
> really didn't want to
> > visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the
> Adirondacks, which was where
> > I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I
> followed up with a few other
> > trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the
> week after the big
> > gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing
> F20,000!!!
> >
> > I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like
> driving all the way up north
> > again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost
> any of the many terrific
> > boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495
> beltway around Boston
> > would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of
> the urban areas that
> > we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes
> around now outside the
> > beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those
> in the Andover area
> > merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the
> Sudbury area beautifully
> > covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/Northborough area
> delightfully filled by Zess
> > and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/Foxboro area plentifully salted
> and peppered by
> > The Travelers 4 and many others!
> >
> > So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for
> my final push to
> > F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th
> Birthday Bonanza (the
> > Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball
> series, and a whole
> > bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted
> by Ellen, T1 of the
> > Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I
> hopped on over to
> > Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of
> international folk
> > dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
> >
> > Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go"
> and "Grateful
> > Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily
> planted by Zess on a pleasant
> > loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes,
> including a mystery
> > that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly
> collecting charms on
> > Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves
> scattered around the
> > Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up
> to Northborough
> > to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful
> ones Pete and I had
> > done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and
> Away:Celebrate!" near the top
> > of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to
> finish up the last few
> > charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-
> treaters started
> > coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly
> dancer outfit, and
> > headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween
> international folk dance
> > partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by
> the time I got back
> > home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but
> what a grand way to
> > ring in F20K!
> >
> > So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking
> of having a Little Rhody
> > Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming
> Sunday, November 9th,
> > from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am
> hoping to have enough
> > time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little
> pumpkin stamps
> > based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the
> past. However, most
> > people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you
> would like some good
> > stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier
> and plant some of your
> > own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one
> carved pumpkin stamp
> > to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the
> better, so mine won't
> > feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome,
> too!:-) Anyway, please
> > feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the
> pond, just north of the
> > Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us
> for some pumpkin
> > pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone
> might feel like
> > bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it,
> and whether or not you
> > choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wanda
> >
>
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: Curtis & Paula H. (8hands4jesus@dslextreme.com) |
Date: 2008-11-07 02:23:22 UTC
Congratulations, Wanda -- your prolific finds simply AMAZE me!
Now, I haven't looked it up, but I've heard about PFX counts, and since
you brought it up, I'll ask. Here's my current theory:
P = Plants (# of letterboxes you've planted)
F = Finds (# of letterboxes you've found)
but what is "X"? (everything else? quisps, ltcs, et cetera?)
Thanks!
Paula (aka Hansenclan)
in sunny Southern California
with 0 Plants, 7 Finds, 2 quisps and 1 ltc...
... do my 4 postal finds count?
(I'm at the beginning of the learning curve, you see.)
Now, I haven't looked it up, but I've heard about PFX counts, and since
you brought it up, I'll ask. Here's my current theory:
P = Plants (# of letterboxes you've planted)
F = Finds (# of letterboxes you've found)
but what is "X"? (everything else? quisps, ltcs, et cetera?)
Thanks!
Paula (aka Hansenclan)
in sunny Southern California
with 0 Plants, 7 Finds, 2 quisps and 1 ltc...
... do my 4 postal finds count?
(I'm at the beginning of the learning curve, you see.)
Re: [LbNA] Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: Baqash (lliving51@gmail.com) |
Date: 2008-11-06 19:24:08 UTC-07:00
X = Xchanges with other boxers.
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Curtis & Paula H. <
8hands4jesus@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Congratulations, Wanda -- your prolific finds simply AMAZE me!
>
> Now, I haven't looked it up, but I've heard about PFX counts, and since
> you brought it up, I'll ask. Here's my current theory:
>
> P = Plants (# of letterboxes you've planted)
> F = Finds (# of letterboxes you've found)
>
> but what is "X"? (everything else? quisps, ltcs, et cetera?)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paula (aka Hansenclan)
> in sunny Southern California
> with 0 Plants, 7 Finds, 2 quisps and 1 ltc...
> ... do my 4 postal finds count?
> (I'm at the beginning of the learning curve, you see.)
>
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Curtis & Paula H. <
8hands4jesus@dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Congratulations, Wanda -- your prolific finds simply AMAZE me!
>
> Now, I haven't looked it up, but I've heard about PFX counts, and since
> you brought it up, I'll ask. Here's my current theory:
>
> P = Plants (# of letterboxes you've planted)
> F = Finds (# of letterboxes you've found)
>
> but what is "X"? (everything else? quisps, ltcs, et cetera?)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paula (aka Hansenclan)
> in sunny Southern California
> with 0 Plants, 7 Finds, 2 quisps and 1 ltc...
> ... do my 4 postal finds count?
> (I'm at the beginning of the learning curve, you see.)
>
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [LbNA] Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: Ellen Dill (thetravelersfour@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2008-11-06 19:17:56 UTC-08:00
Hey what a great story of great adventures! Isn't Mt. Pisgah a little gem? Great place for a milestone! We will be joining you on Sunday Wanda! Can't wait to see you!
Ellen
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, gwendontoo wrote:
From: gwendontoo
Subject: [LbNA] Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 1:38 PM
Congrats Wanda!
Don
--- In letterbox-usa@ yahoogroups. com, "wandaandpete"
wrote:
>
> Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my
letterboxing after reaching PFX
> 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what
happened. Several people
> had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously,
since I was then
> 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think
I was going to be in
> any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only
boxes in places I really
> wanted to visit anyway...
>
> Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest
2000 boxes ever! Going
> out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-
weekend trip into a
> month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going
from dancing at the
> wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I
just couldn't seem to
> stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I
really didn't want to
> visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the
Adirondacks, which was where
> I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I
followed up with a few other
> trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the
week after the big
> gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing
F20,000!!!
>
> I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like
driving all the way up north
> again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost
any of the many terrific
> boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495
beltway around Boston
> would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of
the urban areas that
> we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes
around now outside the
> beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those
in the Andover area
> merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the
Sudbury area beautifully
> covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/ Northborough area
delightfully filled by Zess
> and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/ Foxboro area plentifully salted
and peppered by
> The Travelers 4 and many others!
>
> So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for
my final push to
> F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th
Birthday Bonanza (the
> Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball
series, and a whole
> bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted
by Ellen, T1 of the
> Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I
hopped on over to
> Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of
international folk
> dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
>
> Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go"
and "Grateful
> Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily
planted by Zess on a pleasant
> loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes,
including a mystery
> that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly
collecting charms on
> Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves
scattered around the
> Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up
to Northborough
> to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful
ones Pete and I had
> done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and
Away:Celebrate! " near the top
> of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to
finish up the last few
> charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-
treaters started
> coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly
dancer outfit, and
> headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween
international folk dance
> partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by
the time I got back
> home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but
what a grand way to
> ring in F20K!
>
> So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking
of having a Little Rhody
> Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming
Sunday, November 9th,
> from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am
hoping to have enough
> time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little
pumpkin stamps
> based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the
past. However, most
> people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you
would like some good
> stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier
and plant some of your
> own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one
carved pumpkin stamp
> to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the
better, so mine won't
> feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome,
too!:-) Anyway, please
> feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the
pond, just north of the
> Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us
for some pumpkin
> pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone
might feel like
> bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it,
and whether or not you
> choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Ellen
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, gwendontoo
From: gwendontoo
Subject: [LbNA] Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 1:38 PM
Congrats Wanda!
Don
--- In letterbox-usa@ yahoogroups. com, "wandaandpete"
>
> Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my
letterboxing after reaching PFX
> 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what
happened. Several people
> had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously,
since I was then
> 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think
I was going to be in
> any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only
boxes in places I really
> wanted to visit anyway...
>
> Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest
2000 boxes ever! Going
> out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-
weekend trip into a
> month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going
from dancing at the
> wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I
just couldn't seem to
> stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I
really didn't want to
> visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the
Adirondacks, which was where
> I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I
followed up with a few other
> trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the
week after the big
> gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing
F20,000!!!
>
> I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like
driving all the way up north
> again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost
any of the many terrific
> boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495
beltway around Boston
> would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of
the urban areas that
> we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes
around now outside the
> beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those
in the Andover area
> merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the
Sudbury area beautifully
> covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/ Northborough area
delightfully filled by Zess
> and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/ Foxboro area plentifully salted
and peppered by
> The Travelers 4 and many others!
>
> So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for
my final push to
> F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th
Birthday Bonanza (the
> Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball
series, and a whole
> bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted
by Ellen, T1 of the
> Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I
hopped on over to
> Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of
international folk
> dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
>
> Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go"
and "Grateful
> Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily
planted by Zess on a pleasant
> loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes,
including a mystery
> that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly
collecting charms on
> Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves
scattered around the
> Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up
to Northborough
> to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful
ones Pete and I had
> done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and
Away:Celebrate! " near the top
> of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to
finish up the last few
> charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-
treaters started
> coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly
dancer outfit, and
> headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween
international folk dance
> partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by
the time I got back
> home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but
what a grand way to
> ring in F20K!
>
> So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking
of having a Little Rhody
> Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming
Sunday, November 9th,
> from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am
hoping to have enough
> time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little
pumpkin stamps
> based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the
past. However, most
> people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you
would like some good
> stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier
and plant some of your
> own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one
carved pumpkin stamp
> to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the
better, so mine won't
> feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome,
too!:-) Anyway, please
> feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the
pond, just north of the
> Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us
for some pumpkin
> pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone
might feel like
> bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it,
and whether or not you
> choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[LbNA] Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: wandaandpete (wandaandpete@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2008-11-07 22:50:39 UTC
> Hey what a great story of great adventures! Isn't Mt. Pisgah a little gem? Great place for
a milestone! We will be joining you on Sunday Wanda! Can't wait to see you!
> Ellen
Yes, Mt. Pisgah was definitely a terrific little place for F20K! We remembered it as a pretty
area from even before our "letterboxing days", but it got special meaning to us after
finding the "Mt. Pisgah Fledglings" there in 2001 on one of our earliest MA letterboxing
trips, back when that was the only box in the vicinity and it had a hand-carved stamp that
was one of our favorites for many years! Now, of course, the fledglings have flown, but
there are literally dozens of fun stamps up there that folks can really make a lot of noise
about-mooing, slurping, chooing and blurping along with Dr. Seuss! (just hope folks can
keep that story-line straight so those cool carvings don't get treated like a bunch of
outdoor "tabletoppers"!;-)
At any rate, we are so happy that central eastern MA on either side of the 495 beltway now
has such a wonderfully dedicated crop of planters who really know how to combine their
carving skills with sharing some of the loveliest little nature walks around. I would
definitely rank this area as one of the best new letterboxing "hotspots" in the country, and
hope that letterboxers will continue to treat this "charming bracelet" /bay circuit greenway
with great respect for those who have preserved and shared it!
Well, my twelve little pumpkins are carved and ready to go for Sunday, but don't expect
much compared to those great carvings of MA! Some of mine are pretty funny, though,
like the "Bacon & Eggs Pumpkin" or "Pumpkin Opuntia", so come on down for a few laughs
and a piece of pizza or pumpkin pie. See you soon!
Cheers,
Wanda from RI
(P300 F20,058 X1830)
Re: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: Chuck & Amy (woodschuckstraub@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2008-11-09 15:15:28 UTC-08:00
Congratulations Wanda on reaching F-20,000. Wow! Amazing! .....WWW = Chuck, Barbara, Amy
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, wandaandpete wrote:
From: wandaandpete
Subject: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:19 AM
Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
wanted to visit anyway...
Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/ Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/ Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
The Travelers 4 and many others!
So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate! " near the top
of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
ring in F20K!
So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
Cheers,
Wanda
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, wandaandpete
From: wandaandpete
Subject: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 11:19 AM
Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
wanted to visit anyway...
Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/ Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/ Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
The Travelers 4 and many others!
So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate! " near the top
of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
ring in F20K!
So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
Cheers,
Wanda
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: (hhartley5@aol.com) |
Date: 2008-11-10 10:32:33 UTC-05:00
Just wanted to say thanks? - we had a great time yesterday. It was great to meet everyone & be able to talk to people who love doing this as much as we do. We are inspired now to do some carving (now that we know?the proper?equipment to use!) & get out there and plant some more stuff.
Thanks again, Joe&Heather
-----Original Message-----
From: wandaandpete
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:19 am
Subject: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
wanted to visit anyway...
Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
The Travelers 4 and many others!
So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate!" near the top
of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
ring in F20K!
So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
Cheers,
Wanda
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Thanks again, Joe&Heather
-----Original Message-----
From: wandaandpete
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:19 am
Subject: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
wanted to visit anyway...
Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
The Travelers 4 and many others!
So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate!" near the top
of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
ring in F20K!
So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
Cheers,
Wanda
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: (sueb926@cox.net) |
Date: 2008-11-10 11:49:30 UTC-05:00
I also wanted to thank Wanda and Pete for the pumpkin party. It was nice to finally meet you both. We had fun too. It was nice meeting everyone. I too am more inspired to plant the Phantom Pumpkin and others I have been waiting to plant.
Sue/Subeespak
Thanks
-- hhartley5@aol.com wrote:
> Just wanted to say thanks? - we had a great time yesterday. It was great to meet everyone & be able to talk to people who love doing this as much as we do. We are inspired now to do some carving (now that we know?the proper?equipment to use!) & get out there and plant some more stuff.
>
> Thanks again, Joe&Heather
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wandaandpete
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:19 am
> Subject: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
> 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
> had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
> 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
> any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
> wanted to visit anyway...
>
> Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
> out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
> month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
> wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
> stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
> visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
> I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
> trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
> gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
>
> I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
> again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
> boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
> would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
> we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
> beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
> merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
> covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
> and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
> The Travelers 4 and many others!
>
> So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
> F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
> Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
> bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
> Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
> Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
> dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
>
> Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
> Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
> loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
> that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
> Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
> Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
> to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
> done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate!" near the top
> of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
> charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
> coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
> headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
> partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
> home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
> ring in F20K!
>
> So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
> Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
> from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
> time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
> based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
> people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
> stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
> own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
> to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
> feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
> feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
> Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
> pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
> bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
> choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
Sue/Subeespak
Thanks
-- hhartley5@aol.com wrote:
> Just wanted to say thanks? - we had a great time yesterday. It was great to meet everyone & be able to talk to people who love doing this as much as we do. We are inspired now to do some carving (now that we know?the proper?equipment to use!) & get out there and plant some more stuff.
>
> Thanks again, Joe&Heather
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wandaandpete
> To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:19 am
> Subject: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
> 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
> had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
> 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
> any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
> wanted to visit anyway...
>
> Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
> out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
> month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
> wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
> stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
> visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
> I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
> trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
> gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
>
> I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
> again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
> boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
> would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
> we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
> beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
> merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
> covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
> and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
> The Travelers 4 and many others!
>
> So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
> F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
> Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
> bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
> Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
> Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
> dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
>
> Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
> Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
> loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
> that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
> Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
> Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
> to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
> done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate!" near the top
> of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
> charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
> coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
> headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
> partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
> home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
> ring in F20K!
>
> So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
> Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
> from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
> time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
> based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
> people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
> stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
> own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
> to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
> feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
> feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
> Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
> pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
> bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
> choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
Re: [LbNA] Re: Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: zess the treehuggers (zess.devine@gmail.com) |
Date: 2008-11-10 13:09:09 UTC-05:00
Hi Wanda,
I'm honored to be included in your kudos. I love to carve and plant, and
it's so great that I can bring pleasure to people in this way :-)
I'm sorry we couldn't make it to your shindig. Today we leave on a vacation
adventure, so yesterday was a packing frenzy between soccer games.
See you on the trail or at the next event!
~zess~
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:50 PM, wandaandpete wrote:
>
>
> > Hey what a great story of great adventures! Isn't Mt. Pisgah a little
> gem? Great place for
> a milestone! We will be joining you on Sunday Wanda! Can't wait to see
> you!
> > Ellen
>
> Yes, Mt. Pisgah was definitely a terrific little place for F20K! We
> remembered it as a pretty
> area from even before our "letterboxing days", but it got special meaning
> to us after
> finding the "Mt. Pisgah Fledglings" there in 2001 on one of our earliest MA
> letterboxing
> trips, back when that was the only box in the vicinity and it had a
> hand-carved stamp that
> was one of our favorites for many years! Now, of course, the fledglings
> have flown, but
> there are literally dozens of fun stamps up there that folks can really
> make a lot of noise
> about-mooing, slurping, chooing and blurping along with Dr. Seuss! (just
> hope folks can
> keep that story-line straight so those cool carvings don't get treated like
> a bunch of
> outdoor "tabletoppers"!;-)
>
> At any rate, we are so happy that central eastern MA on either side of the
> 495 beltway now
> has such a wonderfully dedicated crop of planters who really know how to
> combine their
> carving skills with sharing some of the loveliest little nature walks
> around. I would
> definitely rank this area as one of the best new letterboxing "hotspots" in
> the country, and
> hope that letterboxers will continue to treat this "charming bracelet" /bay
> circuit greenway
> with great respect for those who have preserved and shared it!
>
> Well, my twelve little pumpkins are carved and ready to go for Sunday, but
> don't expect
> much compared to those great carvings of MA! Some of mine are pretty funny,
> though,
> like the "Bacon & Eggs Pumpkin" or "Pumpkin Opuntia", so come on down for a
> few laughs
> and a piece of pizza or pumpkin pie. See you soon!
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda from RI
>
> (P300 F20,058 X1830)
>
>
>
--
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long
to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
"..... The Bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began ....." Hop
aboard at:
http://groups.google.com/group/the-grateful-letterboxers?hl=en
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
I'm honored to be included in your kudos. I love to carve and plant, and
it's so great that I can bring pleasure to people in this way :-)
I'm sorry we couldn't make it to your shindig. Today we leave on a vacation
adventure, so yesterday was a packing frenzy between soccer games.
See you on the trail or at the next event!
~zess~
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:50 PM, wandaandpete
>
>
> > Hey what a great story of great adventures! Isn't Mt. Pisgah a little
> gem? Great place for
> a milestone! We will be joining you on Sunday Wanda! Can't wait to see
> you!
> > Ellen
>
> Yes, Mt. Pisgah was definitely a terrific little place for F20K! We
> remembered it as a pretty
> area from even before our "letterboxing days", but it got special meaning
> to us after
> finding the "Mt. Pisgah Fledglings" there in 2001 on one of our earliest MA
> letterboxing
> trips, back when that was the only box in the vicinity and it had a
> hand-carved stamp that
> was one of our favorites for many years! Now, of course, the fledglings
> have flown, but
> there are literally dozens of fun stamps up there that folks can really
> make a lot of noise
> about-mooing, slurping, chooing and blurping along with Dr. Seuss! (just
> hope folks can
> keep that story-line straight so those cool carvings don't get treated like
> a bunch of
> outdoor "tabletoppers"!;-)
>
> At any rate, we are so happy that central eastern MA on either side of the
> 495 beltway now
> has such a wonderfully dedicated crop of planters who really know how to
> combine their
> carving skills with sharing some of the loveliest little nature walks
> around. I would
> definitely rank this area as one of the best new letterboxing "hotspots" in
> the country, and
> hope that letterboxers will continue to treat this "charming bracelet" /bay
> circuit greenway
> with great respect for those who have preserved and shared it!
>
> Well, my twelve little pumpkins are carved and ready to go for Sunday, but
> don't expect
> much compared to those great carvings of MA! Some of mine are pretty funny,
> though,
> like the "Bacon & Eggs Pumpkin" or "Pumpkin Opuntia", so come on down for a
> few laughs
> and a piece of pizza or pumpkin pie. See you soon!
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda from RI
>
> (P300 F20,058 X1830)
>
>
>
--
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long
to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
"..... The Bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began ....." Hop
aboard at:
http://groups.google.com/group/the-grateful-letterboxers?hl=en
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
From: Ellen Dill (thetravelersfour@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2008-11-11 05:02:17 UTC-08:00
We had a great time too! The pumpkins were awesome, the food was great,and the company was the best. Moonstone, we'll be back soon! And Wanda, what can I say, I guess we'll have to keep planting to make sure you hit 25,000 and throw another great mini-meet!:) Love ya,
Ellen and Justin -- Christina is sorry she missed you.
--- On Mon, 11/10/08, sueb926@cox.net wrote:
From: sueb926@cox.net
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Cc: hhartley5@aol.com
Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 11:49 AM
I also wanted to thank Wanda and Pete for the pumpkin party. It was nice to finally meet you both. We had fun too. It was nice meeting everyone. I too am more inspired to plant the Phantom Pumpkin and others I have been waiting to plant.
Sue/Subeespak
Thanks
-- hhartley5@aol. com wrote:
> Just wanted to say thanks? - we had a great time yesterday. It was great to meet everyone & be able to talk to people who love doing this as much as we do. We are inspired now to do some carving (now that we know?the proper?equipment to use!) & get out there and plant some more stuff.
>
> Thanks again, Joe&Heather
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wandaandpete
> To: letterbox-usa@ yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:19 am
> Subject: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
> 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
> had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
> 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
> any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
> wanted to visit anyway...
>
> Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
> out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
> month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
> wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
> stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
> visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
> I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
> trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
> gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
>
> I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
> again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
> boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
> would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
> we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
> beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
> merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
> covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/ Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
> and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/ Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
> The Travelers 4 and many others!
>
> So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
> F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
> Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
> bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
> Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
> Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
> dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
>
> Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
> Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
> loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
> that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
> Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
> Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
> to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
> done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate! " near the top
> of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
> charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
> coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
> headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
> partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
> home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
> ring in F20K!
>
> So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
> Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
> from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
> time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
> based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
> people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
> stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
> own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
> to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
> feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
> feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
> Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
> pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
> bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
> choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wanda
>
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Ellen and Justin -- Christina is sorry she missed you.
--- On Mon, 11/10/08, sueb926@cox.net
From: sueb926@cox.net
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Cc: hhartley5@aol.com
Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 11:49 AM
I also wanted to thank Wanda and Pete for the pumpkin party. It was nice to finally meet you both. We had fun too. It was nice meeting everyone. I too am more inspired to plant the Phantom Pumpkin and others I have been waiting to plant.
Sue/Subeespak
Thanks
-- hhartley5@aol. com wrote:
> Just wanted to say thanks? - we had a great time yesterday. It was great to meet everyone & be able to talk to people who love doing this as much as we do. We are inspired now to do some carving (now that we know?the proper?equipment to use!) & get out there and plant some more stuff.
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> Thanks again, Joe&Heather
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> From: wandaandpete
> To: letterbox-usa@ yahoogroups. com
> Sent: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:19 am
> Subject: [LbNA] Halloween F20K and Little Rhody Pumpkin Party!
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> Well, I know I said that I planned on slowing down in my letterboxing after reaching PFX
> 20,000 just this past June, but somehow that's not quite what happened. Several people
> had teased me about PFX 20K not being the same as F20K, obviously, since I was then
> 2000 boxes away from that next big goal, and certainly didn't think I was going to be in
> any hurry to reach it, if my intention as stated was to do only boxes in places I really
> wanted to visit anyway...
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> Well, man, did that change, and I just ended up doing my fastest 2000 boxes ever! Going
> out to upstate NY for a wedding in late July turned from a long-weekend trip into a
> month-long "letterboxing spree", as I quickly found myself going from dancing at the
> wedding to once again getting stuck on "letterboxing autopilot"! I just couldn't seem to
> stop myself hopping from box to box, even in some urban areas I really didn't want to
> visit, until finally getting sucked out of the vortex into the Adirondacks, which was where
> I had really wanted to go in the first place. Thereafter, I followed up with a few other
> trips up north, and even a short trip with Pete out to Oregon the week after the big
> gathering out there! And before I knew it, there I was pushing F20,000!!!
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> I wanted to pick a special box for F20K, but didn't feel like driving all the way up north
> again for that last couple hundred finds, so I decided that almost any of the many terrific
> boxes that have come out within the last year or so along the 495 beltway around Boston
> would do, without even having to cross the 95/128 line into any of the urban areas that
> we tend to avoid anyway. There are certainly enough great boxes around now outside the
> beltway to keep any letterboxer busy for many days, including those in the Andover area
> merrily stocked by The Merry Pranksters, Choi and others, the Sudbury area beautifully
> covered by Dale End Farm, the Westborough/ Northborough area delightfully filled by Zess
> and Mim, and the Ashland/Bellingham/ Foxboro area plentifully salted and peppered by
> The Travelers 4 and many others!
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> So, what an exciting last few days of October I ended up having for my final push to
> F20K! After visiting the wonderful boxes placed for T2's 13th Birthday Bonanza (the
> Beatles series, the Seinfeld series, the Boys of Summer Baseball series, and a whole
> bunch of monsters and other assorted boxes all marvelously planted by Ellen, T1 of the
> Travelers 4) in several beautiful preserves around Ashland, I hopped on over to
> Framingham for DEFs Clutch of Celtic, and a fun-filled evening of international folk
> dancing with many of us in our Halloween costumes.
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> Halloween morning itself saw me starting out with "Go, Dog, Go" and "Grateful
> Letterboxes: Singing for the Merry Pranksters" very craftily planted by Zess on a pleasant
> loop around Chauncey Lake, while also finding several other boxes, including a mystery
> that hadn't been found since 2004! The afternoon I spent mostly collecting charms on
> Mim's sweet "Charm Bracelet" series in many lovely preserves scattered around the
> Westborough area, while somewhere in between I managed to scoot up to Northborough
> to get my one remaining box up there - out of the many delightful ones Pete and I had
> done there together recently - at Harmony's "Up, Up and Away:Celebrate! " near the top
> of Mt. Pisgah, a perfect box for my F20K! I then went back to finish up the last few
> charms in Westborough just before darkness fell and the trick-or-treaters started
> coming out, then quickly changed into my discreet Turkish belly dancer outfit, and
> headed off for yet another wonderful evening of Halloween international folk dance
> partying in Arlington - WOW! Needless to say, I was really beat by the time I got back
> home to southern RI, and it took me several days to recuperate, but what a grand way to
> ring in F20K!
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> So, now it's time to celebrate again, and Pete and I are thinking of having a Little Rhody
> Pumpkin Party at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, RI this coming Sunday, November 9th,
> from around 2 to 4 PM. (Sorry again for the short notice!) I am hoping to have enough
> time between now and then to carve and plant about a dozen little pumpkin stamps
> based on boxes of ours that some people may recognize from the past. However, most
> people know that I'm still not much for carving myself, so if you would like some good
> stamps, please feel free to come on down to the park a bit earlier and plant some of your
> own! It would be great if everyone who felt like it could bring one carved pumpkin stamp
> to plant somewhere in the area for the day (actually the cruder the better, so mine won't
> feel so bad, but beautiful stamps are, of course, most welcome, too!:-) Anyway, please
> feel free to come meet and greet at the picnic pavilion near the pond, just north of the
> Frosty Drew Observatory and Nature Center around 2PM, and join us for some pumpkin
> pie, pumpkin cake, punch, pizza, pretzels, or whatever else anyone might feel like
> bringing - whether or not it starts with "p" and has pumpkin in it, and whether or not you
> choose to wear pumpkin-colored clothing!
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> Cheers,
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> Wanda
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