That's alot of counting Jonathon!!!

We only got about 4" snow here today, and had no plans- as we went to Church last night.....
Our eldest daughter dropped in this weekend- Friday night and I stayed up chatting with her... Carving stamps and watching Football. I joined Orchid's LTC Superbowl tracker, so curious about how well we guessed the winning teams.
Packing to go see Son, DIL and grandsons tomorrow in Michigan. They live on a small family farm in South Central Michigan, and have brand new baby goat triplets. 2 boys and one girl. I love seeing them when they are babies and they kind of have a hop to their step! Its so cute! The Grandkids are 6 and 2. We'll head back Wednesday evening.

Shelly

You Americans are obsessed with gold! I personally recruited Ursula Andress for the Honey Ryder role in Dr. No. She was quite fun.

Bond, James Bond

The counties are just pulled in from the geocoders, so AQ just reports what they show. Some weird areas sometimes show up as different counties depending on the geocoder--they don't always agree! The whole thing PI Joe pointing out about the counties/not-counties in Connecticut is new information for me. Sounds like CT is having an identity crisis! But that's clearly causing issues for the geocoders.

Unfortunately, there's not really any way for me to fix it easily. Even if I manually edit the entries to be correct, the next person who tries to add a new address will get the geocoded county that the Google or Bing provides.

It's quite likely that many cities will show up twice. For example, "Enfield, Capitol Planning Region County" and as "Enfield, Hartford County". They'll usually look the same since AQ doesn't usually display the county, but wherever you see a list of cities such as on the city directory, it'll look like they are duplicates. That's usually because the two "cities" are listed as being in different "counties."

Anyhow, if you notice that sort of thing, let me know and I'll merge the cities into just one city.

I should probably update the code to stop adding the word "County" after the word "Region." The geocoder typically returns the county without the word "County". (So, in your example, it might return "Hartford" rather than "Hartford County".) So AQ adds "County" to the end of all the counties with a few exceptions that I hard-coded that I knew about. (For example, Burroughs in Alaska, or "Parishes" in Louisiana.) I never knew about the whole "Region" debacle in Connecticut, though, so the "Capitol Planning Region County" is an AQ "bug". It probably should just be "Capitol Planning Region."

-- Ryan

I sent a few cards the last few months of the year - they werent returned, so I'm taking that as a good sign. Miss her too. Keep sending hugs in the vermont direction.

I should put away my holiday decorations.....but I'm still enjoying them......(I put a bunch away, but not all) I just added my Valentines decor to them....LOL

I didn’t see this post yesterday. I posted ( not published) stamps for the Letterboxers Cruise to Alaska. The rest of the day, I machine embroidered kitchen towels for this year’s craft fairs. I also read and worked on a puzzle. I should have cleaned the house.

That is a huge goal!! My goal is getting a box in every state. Plus every city/town in Massachusetts.Will be knocking off Louisiana and Alaska this year. Next year Hawaii. I’m getting close in both goals.

My bird feeder has been very busy this weekend. So much fun to watch.

Has anyone tried the thin gray carving material by Motimind on Amazon? I’m wondering about the firmness, and how it holds ink.

https://www.amazon.com/MotiMind-Linoleum-Printmaking-Crafting-Scrapbook/dp/B0DQCYRWMX/ref=mp_s_a_1_40?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.3Mc9msQkdZMaQJ-dOc1aCLDFj-efzJfSPgGlAskuFcOE2ltqzOytLxFwTRkQQHCMcU7l4ya7peXIJs5tdguV-Ju1bklDgfDd1IurNN494mZnTXxtQHjv88cwHRpp5bEqyOWaLqgmB5cpOzpWNW684aZfkXtU1rV31pnDSAcGZw9gtDDpnVZQ96I1qcPVMh_Z11QtZhNfi6NqOo3Z9BAP4A.ERf20mMTopcDILLB1ZjKzoFzkJKnOo6UohelK4sP30c&dib_tag=se&qid=1769436056&refinements=p_89%3AMotiMind&sr=8-40&srs=120958322011&xpid=ImHK-Gq1Srp0f&th=1&psc=1

It is and if I only get to half of the 3,144 currently recognised counties, parishes, buroughs, and regions that the US Census Bureau recognises then I will be happy. Currently I have boxed in 482 counties, and have completed two states (New Hampshire and New Mexico).

That’s incredible! Good luck reaching your goal.

We bawled when Eddy died...
NOOOOOO, EDDYYYYYYY!!!

Every now and then I check your map just to see how you are doing. I’m along for the journey via lurking.
Happy Trails!

Welcome to the world of micro postals...🤪. You should see my inky fingers after I log in a micro postal, one would think I just finished a full day at a letterboxing event..😳

Most micros are hard to get a nice image because most stamps are usually very thin and floppy. It's kind of what's expected.

I will say, if my image didn't come out great, I take a 'sharpie' and then fill in the lines where the ink missed.

Hope you get some reply's, Im curious too.

I haven't used that one, but I have used a grey material before and I couldn't see the transfers AT ALL.

Just ordered a bundle and they should be here tomorrow. Will post how it carves hopefully in the next few days.

For the really thin stamps I will put a piece of double-sided tape on the back of it and use a piece of those thick postcard mailers that come. Then you can press down on all parts of the stamp. I tried once putting it on the stamping platform but that didn't give you an opportunity to press down in specific areas. Try that

Wow! Look at you go. I’ll be curious to hear. What type of transfer do you typically use? I’m hopeful it will work with heat.

I use a lazer printer and transfer with acetone transfer.

If I get a stamp too thin, I take a blank address label (or any paper with permanent adhesive) stick the stamp on it and trim around the edges.

I also suggest people shave down the back before carving the front. Here’s a link from the AQ help pages:
https://www.atlasquest.com/about/wiki/browse.php?catId=33#q792

Duct tape gets gooey when it’s squeezed through the sorting machinery the PO uses.

No experience with gray stuff. However I do pencil rubbings to transfer images, and they would not show up at all on this medium.

I’ve both received and sent micro postals that have holes from front to back. It’s always in an area that doesn’t stamp, because I gouged out blank areas too deeply.

Not ideal, but still stampable.

I’ve acquired quite a few tags (found, donated, purchased), and my collection is now approaching 200. I just received my first order of custom tags!

Please check them out and request a trade if you’d like to have one.
https://www.pathtags.com/community/viewuserprofile.php?id=190040

I have the same user name on here, for geocaching, and on the pathtags website.

I collect them when I go to state parks - most have them in the gift shop - and am in the pathtag club. None to trade yet but am working on one for an event at the community center in the future!

I was thinking "armpit! armpit!"

I have stuff for that, including a talking point outline, a chart explaining geocaching v. letterboxing, guidelines, etc. If you want it, I can email it to you.

I like it mounted. It's floppy stuff, and apparently, I suck at stamping.

Use those camping laundry bags. They have ridges on the inside to scrub clothes & pack down small for storage. It's called the scrubba.

I have! And I hated it.

Too firm, took a lot of strength to move the gouge, transfers (wintergreen/acetone and laser jet printer) went horribly, very dark and difficult to see pencil trace transfers, I’m a deep carver, so the thin material made my style difficult, and it stamped horribly compared to other materials.

Of all my complaints, the poor stamping quality bothered me the most. What is the point of making a stamp if the image doesn’t come out well?

Anyway, all that being said, I think you should try it. You might really like it and have a better experience than me. Experimenting is a good thing!