Welcome and thanks for all the new letterboxes. We found hidden marker and
are looking forward to finding your others! Your clues are excellent. How
did you find that marker anyway?
For our log books we were using Mead Fat Little Bungee books that we found
at CVS. They have a plastic front cover and an attached elastic that holds
the book shut and are 180 pages long. I am very concerned that the books
hold up since our boys are aged 5 and 1. I found that as we got to the
middle of the book the outside edges of the pages started to hang out of the
book and get folded and one of the elastics broke. Then I found plastic
covered little ring binders that have index cards with holes. We each have
a ring binder that we keep at home. I take another ring binder with lots of
empty sheets and we stamp into one book and then put our sheets into our own
books when we get back. Since they're index card material they hold up a
little bit better and it is nice to have the blank side for the stamp. I
bought the binders on clearance so now the challenge will be to find more!
I have some (maybe all) of our letterboxes set up with them, too. I may
have to make pages by using a hole punch. I have to do something about it
soon because the Feed Store letterbox is almost full. The box for index
cards is a great idea since our books are getting pretty full.
Maybe we'll see you on the trail!
Mama Duck
Larry Boy
Dino Boy
Baby Brother Bear
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:00:51 -0500
From: "Straub"
Subject: Is this acceptable?
When I find a letterbox I have been stamping a 5" x 3" index card on the
clear side. I then can write date found and any other notations I may want
to make on the reverse. I would think that hiking through the woods with the
same notebook would put quite a bit of wear on the book. When I get home the
card goes into a little file box and be looked over at any time just as a
book could. The next time I go letterboxing I carry a few new note cards. In
this way I keep the stamps of my finds clean and it is much easier to take
care of in the woods. I am new to letterboxing so my question is: Is this an
acceptable way to record finds? Does any one else do this? Hoping to get
some opinions on this before I get into this hobby even more and find I may
have been doing it the wrong way......Chuck Straub P4F8
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