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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
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 Posted - Apr 09 2007 : 06:13:51 AM
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Karin,
What was the name of the book you found? My fiance and i are going to try this when the weather breaks. This is so cool, as you can do it on vacations too.
Blessed Be!
farmgirl@heart
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Apr 09 2007 : 08:22:50 AM
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Megan, Thanks so much for letting us know about this COOL "hobby." I've never heard of it and it sounds like so much fun. I'm always looking for ways to get outside. And, there are so many hidden close by!
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James Taylor
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Libbie
Farmgirl Connection Cultivator
3579 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
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Posted - Apr 09 2007 : 08:49:48 AM
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This sounds just AWESOME!!! ...here's echoing the thanks for letting us all know!
XOXO, Libbie
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blueroses
True Blue Farmgirl
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Debbie
in the Pandhandle of
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Apr 09 2007 : 4:19:28 PM
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Megan,
This is so cool! We seem to have a lot in our area. I'm gonna get the ladies (farmgirl chapter) in on this!!! Thank you.
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shmeg
True Blue Farmgirl
222 Posts
Megan
Granville
Ohio
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - Apr 09 2007 : 4:24:12 PM
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Debbie,
That is a good idea. If a group of farmgirls in any one area wanted to get together to do this, you could even make your own group farmgirl stamp. My sisters and I did this. I have my own, and I made when for my two sisters and I and a few friends who get together a few times a year. Some people make a family stamp too, instead everyone in the family making ther own. |
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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1433 Posts
Talitha
Vermont
USA
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Posted - Apr 09 2007 : 9:56:49 PM
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Megan,
Thank you so much for posting this! I had never heard of it. I visited the websites and saved them and printed off some info for DH. He thought it was a really neat idea and we are going to see if we can't start doing it as a family soon! How neat!! Thanks again!!
Hugz!
Talitha
"If we could maintain the wonder of childhood and at the same time grasp the wisdom of age, what wonder,what wisdom,what life would be ours" |
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
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Posted - May 05 2007 : 08:04:46 AM
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Megan, just saw your post. Since I go back to the UK every 3 or 4 years to visit my family, I am VERY familiar with letterboxing! My family actually lives on the edge of Dartmoor and we could hike right onto the moor and spend hours if not days searching for all the boxes. I have one on Dartmoor that my family 'monitors' for me. When my note-book is full of stamps they put a new one in the container and mail me the filled note-book so I can see who 'visited'. Now, each time I visit my family, I go and check my box to see who has visited me! Very adictive!
Angie.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - May 05 2007 : 6:06:51 PM
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BritChickNY-
That is so neat that you have a letterbox back home! A really neat idea. I wonder if I could think of a place to put one... hmm...
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
1048 Posts
Angie
Port Orange
Florida
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Posted - May 06 2007 : 05:01:16 AM
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Alee, you have to save your pennies and go to Dartmoor! Imagine a landscape that goes on forever. Very few trees but huge outcroppings of granite evrywhere. These are called Tors. Hundreds of the letterboxes are hidden on/under/around these Tors. Some boxes are very easy to find, some are not. The idea is that you must not'change the landscape' in any way to either hide your own box or to look for someone else's. It is such fun to read the notes in someone else's box and see who has found it. And then you get to rubber stamp their book with your stamp and write them a message. Perhaps it is a primitive blog!!! What a concept!
Ang. (ps, I would be glad to be your tour guide!)
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Posted - May 06 2007 : 6:36:39 PM
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Thanks so much for sharing this! I was familiar with geocacheing, I learned about it through an amateur radio activity, but I had never heard of letterboxing before. I am doing a geocaching event with the Girl Scouts in my council next Saturday. I'll have to be sure and let them know about letterboxing, if they don't have a GPS this is something they could do on a teenage budget!
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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NeeneeB
Farmgirl in Training
34 Posts
Kristin
N Windham
CT
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2012 : 2:48:35 PM
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Rather than start a new thread on the topic, I decided to reply to this older one. We've been letterboxing for several years now and love it! It's one of my favorite ways to get out of the house. I've carved a few stamps and made a few books and want to work on those skills this summer when I'm off from work. Anyone else letterbox? We do some geocaching too but I'm not so good at it!
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SpyChicken
True Blue Farmgirl
436 Posts
Christine
Fond du Lac
WI
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2012 : 2:15:19 PM
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This sounded like a lot of fun, so I took a peek at the website! Now, dh and I have plans to find a box while we are on our Niagara Falls trip! We'll have to improvise the stamp but I can't wait to see how we do. If all goes well, the family will investigate more boxes close to home.
Can't wait to get started! |
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Joey
True Blue Farmgirl
1868 Posts
Joey
Gulf Coast
FL
USA
1868 Posts |
Posted - Jun 09 2012 : 9:42:44 PM
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Hi all. My DH and I have been letterboxing for over 2 years..I think my DH has at least 100 from all over the country. Now my DD and her family do it too. It has taken us so many interesting places that we wouldn't have gone otherwise. We also geocache and love that too, but I like letterboxing better. My DH loves th "hunt" to find it. I like the stamps and reading what people write. My name on atlasquest is "Travelin RN." You can look up my box and see where I have been, although I have several I have to post still. If anyone has questions please e-mail me. I'll be glad to help. Thanks Megan, for posting this. I never thought about it. We've even been to a letterbox retreat and there are tons of boxes near us. We started bcause it was my way of getting us off the couch and outdoors. It was cheap and fun. Maybe someday we'll meet on the trail. Joey
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
427 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - Jun 10 2012 : 8:25:41 PM
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I am so excited to try it. My girls are pretty young, 5 and 2, so I worry about the three of us out hiking alone. Most of the boxes I see listed around me aren't in the woods like the geocaches are so I feel much safer trying to find them. I am a little uncreative though so I am not sure about making my own stamp. I am already trying to figure out when we can get out and try to find one though.
Emily
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Joey
True Blue Farmgirl
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Joey
Gulf Coast
FL
USA
1868 Posts |
Posted - Jun 11 2012 : 10:10:11 PM
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Emily, alot of letterboxes are in parks or playgrounds. Also, although we have letterboxed for years, my Dh and I have not carved our own stamps. We got them at Michaels. They represent us. My stamp is a pair of flipflops and DH is a bird. I guess someday we'll get around to carving stamps but so far have not and have never gotten any flack about it. Joey
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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marianne
The Beautiful Pacific NW
Washington State
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2012 : 03:02:26 AM
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Thanks so much for sharing this. It sounds very interesting ... a fun new hobby!
Marianne |
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musicmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
430 Posts
Wendy
Oregon
USA
430 Posts |
Posted - Jun 12 2012 : 07:05:05 AM
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Letterboxing is so much fun for my boys. Our oldest takes the clue list and off they go. I've had to bite my tongue a few times when they've gone the wrong direction, but they eventually figure it out. We even did letterboxing at Disneyland a couple of years ago. That was a hard place to be stealthy!
My youngest said that he feels like Indiana Jones when we letterbox.
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
427 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2012 : 06:27:46 AM
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We are so excited, today or tomorrow weather permitting on one of them we are off. Definately we will start with buying as I have read and read and sounds like it isn't so bad and we have so many around or house I can't believe it. I explained it to my five year old who loves treasure hunts and she doesn't quite get it but she will.
Emily
Farmgirl # 3591 |
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
427 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - Jun 13 2012 : 11:53:25 AM
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We found our first two letter boxes today! So fun. The girls loved it so while the youngest naps today we will plan tomorrow's hunt.
Emily
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ruthie218
True Blue Farmgirl
1445 Posts
Ruthie Ann
Indiana
USA
1445 Posts |
Posted - Jun 14 2012 : 05:40:06 AM
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Hi! This looks likec a fun activity. There are 4 boxes within a six miles of my house. Today Im packin up the kids and were off to find the first box. Then a picnic and playing in the park.
Thanks for a great share,
Ruthie Ann
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
1085 Posts
Julie
TX
USA
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Joey
True Blue Farmgirl
1868 Posts
Joey
Gulf Coast
FL
USA
1868 Posts |
Posted - Jun 19 2012 : 9:07:23 PM
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How wonderful for you and your new hobby, Emily. Nothing like the firat box. We were so excited and still get excited at finding a box. Welcome to a new "secret" society.
We found that since this is "secret" and you don't want other "muggles" in the area to know what is going on, you need something to say when you are searchiing for a box and people catch you or when you've found a box and want the others in your party to know it but not let anyone else know..
We tell non-boxers who ask what we are doing that I dropped my cell phone or a bracelt and we're looking for it..when we have found a box and want to let others in our party know we ask "Are you hungry?"..seems like a reasonable question and nobody thinks to question what you are saying, but we all know what we're saying is "I found the box"..this works for us. Just thought I'd pass it on. Have fun! Joey
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
1085 Posts
Julie
TX
USA
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Joey
True Blue Farmgirl
1868 Posts
Joey
Gulf Coast
FL
USA
1868 Posts |
Posted - Jul 04 2012 : 01:36:34 AM
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DH and I got a letterbox yesterday at the only lighthouse on the island of Kauai, HI. It was a nice lighthouse stamp. We hadn't been letterboxing is awhile so this was sweet. Joey
Well behaved women rarely make history. |
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
427 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
427 Posts |
Posted - Jul 15 2012 : 8:32:34 PM
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Just an update... My daughters and I have found 19 LBs now. I have repaired afew and even helped two Letterboxer's when they needed a new book and a new stamp placed in boxes they no longer live near. Both were so nice and thankful the first sent us a pouch to place our first LB with and the second sent us two letterboxing trading cards. What a nice group of people these Letterboxers are. Thank you so much for showing us the way to such fun.
Emily
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letterboxing-the perfect family hobby
