And what a small world, I actually just solved your first box puzzle yesterday and am wondering when can I actually get over to get it?
We are on the Space Coast and avoid SO520 (south of 520) & OTB (over the bridge) like the plague 🤣😅. But soon, very soon I will make that trek!
You are in a great active area of boxers and I speak for us all when I say welcome!!!

Hey there! I'm in the Salt Lake area, and have been really enjoying this newfound hobby. I wish I'd discovered it year ago! I get to combine hiking and my love of arts and crafts?? Perfection!

I do feel like I'm getting my feet under me a bit since I'm still pretty new to this hobby, but I've poured over the wiki resources available and have had pretty good success finding boxes lately. I was 3 for 3 yesterday, which is better than my last trip where I think my success rate was like 1 out of 5 or 6 attempts >_<

Anyway, looking forward to getting to know the community a bit better, and maybe even some locals!

You could join State: Utah to talk to locals.

Welcome! We are in California, almost neighbors.

I've started making my own logbooks for recording my finds, but I seem to be having a glitch in the process.

I bought Scotch Self-Seal Laminating Sheets to cover the scrapbook paper I'm using. No problem with that. It works great.

But when I go to wrap it onto my cardstock (a little overlap on each side), I'm not sure which glue is right. I've tried spray adhesive, but I can't seem to get the overlapped edges to stay sealed. If I use E6000 to help with those sealed edges, I think it reacts with the laminating sheet and I end up with bubbles throughout.

I'm thinking I may just skip the laminating sheet at this point.

Hmmm...all advice is appreciated. Best glue? Other method?

I don't laminate my paper - I use duct shelf liner... then I don't have issues...

I adhere the paper first - then cover everything with the clear shelf liner...

Welcome to the insanity! Oops, I mean hobby!

BB

I was boxing in Clermont FL yesterday.
And I found one of Arf’s HHs!
I “might” have yelled “Arf!” when I found it. 😄
It really tickled me.
But when I claimed the find, I also saw it was her 16th AQversary. 😄

Congrats Arf!

Sits N Knits

U silly man!

I have a charming stamp of a bird in flight. No name on the back but it has an arrow carved in the back to show which end it up. Now that winter MAY be leaving the Pine Tree State, I would like to get this planted with proper credit to the wonderful person who gifted it to me. Any help for this senior citizens memory would be greatly appreciated.
Teacup

Maybe post a pic of the stamp if nobody responds?

Though the stamp was gifted to me, I wasn't sure it was okay to post someone else's carve without permission. Hopefully someone will be able to solve my mystery.

I planted a box called The Riddle of the Sphinx. It's a mystery box because I have no idea who carved that stamp and how it ended up in my possession.

The same thing happened to me. Where you put the carver’s name, I put N/A. Then before the clue I put in that I don’t know the carver and if they know, to let me know. Sure enough someone recognized the carve.

Mystery solved! The stamp was part of a raffle at a Massachusetts event that I attended. This is why Teacup should not leave the Pine Tree State.

I packed Glocks for decades until I couldn’t confidently aim, traded them in for a Mossberg and an Ithaca.

I have found that just the sound of a shotgun chambering a round is a sufficient deterrent.

Warrior Woman
chunk CHUNK

[Betty White's tribute stamp has hidden details.] Not what I was expecting when I saw this in my feed.

We have regulations against this type of behavior on Melmac.

March is almost over!! What has everyone been reading this year?

I’m currently reading (and almost finished with) A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

Some of my favorite reads this year so far are:

• The Murderbot Diaries (series) by Martha Wells
• Sunrise On The Reaping by Suzanne Collins
• Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
• We Could Be Rats by Emily Austin

I’m keeping track of my reading on StoryGraph, it’s so handy! I’ve read over 30 books in 2025 so far!

Yay, reading talk!

I'm currently reading When Women were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill, and enjoying it.

Other highlights so far this year:
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressman Taylor
Jonathan Stroud's Scarlett & Browne series

I've read about the same this year, but track on Goodreads -

I'm currently reading "The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West" by Sara Ackerman.

I've also enjoyed these:
The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear
Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
Dead Mountain by Douglas Preston
The Moonlight School by Suzanne Woods Fisher

I’m just finishing the 3rd book in a trilogy
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Forty Days of Rain
Fifty Degrees Below
Sixty Days and Counting

He also wrote Ministry for the Future and several other near future novels about dealing with climate change.

If you like doomsday books, Nuclear War A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. A minute by minute description of what could happen.

I looked this one up and added it to my list, it sounds super interesting!


My friend switched from Goodreads to StoryGraph and put me onto it. It has options for quarter star ratings and a TON of statistics and charts! I love a good graph and it’s really cool to get an overview of my highest rated reads, most read genres, pages read/hours listened, and more!

I'm currently listening to the audiobook Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions by Ed Zwick.
It is interesting listening to him describe his experiences writing and directing for TV and movies, then watching them to see some scenes he describes.

I am currently reading Realm of Ice and Sky by Buddy Levy.
I have read many books about polar expeditions over the years, but this one includes stories less known. Well written and keeps your interest.

We will be in Florida near Ormond Beach, May 17-24 if anyone can meet to box, exchanges or both. We plan on finding the boxes in Ormond Beach and visiting St. Augustine.

Oooh, I love this! Thank you for sharing. I pre-ordered those stamps and this makes it even better.

Recent Reads are:

Patricia Moyes mysteries, I just discovered these and am burning thru them. Very entertaining. Recently, Death and the Dutch Uncle, Black Widower, The Curious Affair of the Third Dog, and Angel Death.

Pauline Kael books that are compilations of her movie reviews, I Lost it at the Movies, Going Steady and Deeper Into Movies

Sunburn by Laura Lippman

Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

Behind the Smile by Bobbi Phelps Wolverton

And Ring Lardner The Love Nest and other stories.

-Amanda from Seattle

Currently reading the Runestone Saga books by Cinda Williams Chima

Bk 1: Children of Ragnarok
Bk 2: The Bane of Asgard

Just finished: The Winters (Inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca)-have not read the original

Favorites this year include:
The Book Thief
Light Over Lindon
Now or Never
The Nickel Boys