well... take this as you will, I've lived here all my life, then when up in AK i drove the the Seward Highway near the Turnagain Arm with a Subaru and was like "man! What a gorgeous, twisty, fun to drive road! I love this! What an exhilarating drive! 4 wheel drive is awesome!" and the fellow who caught a ride with me thought I was nuts.

Also, I swear by a owning a dash cam. Won't have a car without one now. :D

We have glued the hook portion of an old plastic coat hanger to a LocknLock container. I don't remember what kind of glue we used but it helps to rough up the plastic with sandpaper before applying glue.

For our “Clue Crew” we used to have a bigger crew 20 years ago.
Our children have grown up and now it’s me and hubby that make up our crew.
How many are in your crew?

We’ve seen a bunch of different clever ways boxes are hidden in evergreen trees. We’ve used zip ties and small medicine bottles with camo duct tape.
The bird suet holder was the most clever idea we have seen. Inside the suet holder was a black duct-taped pouch containing the logbook and stamp.
It was very camouflaged among the tree branches and securely held the pouch.

thanks wise wanderer!!! I was thinking it was a website I had to go to!
I will message again, this time spelling the name correctly 🤣

This is a cluster phuque* and it's only just begun. Trump is destabilizing the entire Middle East. He is doing what all of the terrorist groups have been trying to do for decades - create chaos. So what does that make him?

From now on, No other nation, except Israel, is going to trust us. This is gonna be an endless war. Someday we may get out of the war, but the region's "US induced" war will continue. And we probably will never leave the region.

BTW Israel had no qualms about attacked the USS Liberty in 1967 because they consider attacking it and apologizing later as in their best interest. The attack killed 34 Americans and wounded 171 more.

Old Blue
*French

Thank you!

Usually 2. Sometimes we plan a road trip and have 3 or 4.

My crew? Uh. One?

The suet holder mentioned can be bought online with no suet. That way they are not at all expensive.

If it’s in a place where stealth is important I’m not a fan of the net container. Getting it off and back on securely can be time consuming.

it’s a sitcom. He fired Kristi Noem. I saw a snippet of her testimony about the I think ……$70 million ……luxury plane they bought claiming that was going to save money after they “refurbished” it. Hilarious. I think that was the straw that broke his back.

I think it was the exposure of the vanity ad featuring her on horseback in front of Mt. Rushmore, produced by a brand new, unknown company owned by her friend, and paid $220M. When brought to light, she said it was approved by Trump. I guess he didn't like being thrown under that burning bus.

I wonder if her new fictitious title "Envoy for The Shield of the Americas" comes with a pay cut.

Last year, I found a box on LbNA that was a pouch with this bar/bracket with a couple of hooks on it. The letterbox was hanging off the branch of a tree a couple of feet overhead.

1 to.... ????
At events, some of the groups can be several people. :)

A way to simulate a narrower gouge is to bend the material outward. That way you can carve the same width of furrow, but when you let it relax it will become narrower. You will become better as you practice.

However, what I do takes more practice: Learn to carve very shallow furrows. It takes a sharp gouge. I sharpen my own to make sure that they are sharp when I need them.

Here is a video on sharpening a small V-gouge. This example is a wood gouge, but see how well the result cuts wood? I use this to sharpen my gouges and blades. As suggested in Kirbert's sharpening tutorial (which someone else can post a link to), use a ceramic knife to take the burrs off of the inside of the gouge.

Be sure to use a new suet holder. The scent from a used one will surely attract critters with sharp teeth who like to nibble on things.

May I point out a similar campaign beginning on 19 March 2011 in Libya by a coalition of NATO counties:

Usually 2, but it's fun to team up with 1 or 2 others, especially at events. Teaming up with other boxers can be a great way to improve boxing skills, as everyone has a different skill set and methodology. Learning new ways to solve clues is fun! 5 or more in a group starts to get cumbersome but there are times when it still works.

We had 3 humans & 1 lab. But just like your story our son grew up.

Ummm, just me? But that will change Saturday at my first TALE!

Whataboutism aside, I’m curious as to why you didn’t post this text from the Wikipedia article:

In a 2016 interview with Fox News, U.S. President Barack Obama stated that the "worst mistake" of his presidency was "probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya."[311][312] Obama also acknowledged there had been issues with following up the conflict planning, commenting in a 2016 interview with The Atlantic magazine that British Prime Minister David Cameron had allowed himself to be "distracted by a range of other things".

The ability to admit making mistakes is a characteristic that the current president sorely lacks. Instead, he doubles down on his mistakes (tariffs, for example) or blames others. I don’t recall any other president with such a complete inability to accept any responsibility for his actions.

We have dash cams in all of our cars. It’s helped us on many an accident, to prove that we weren’t at fault.

Ok so no lie about traffic and drivers in Miami! Understood. What should we see in Miami and if we make it down are you up for meeting up again?

I’ve done this successfully and my boxes are still in place several years later.

I used a prescription bottle upside down. I glued a metal hanger (the hook part) to the container. The hangers from Kohl’s are the best. Then added a layer of green duct tape for camouflage and to help secure it. Since the cap is on the bottom, it doesn’t take in water. There is no log book, just the stamps. They hang against the branches like Christmas decorations.

You could probably use a carabiner instead of the hook and attach in the same manner.

Libya is currently divided between two primary, rival administrations.
This enduring stalemate stems, in part, from the failure to hold elections in 2021, with power split geographically between the west and east; and with warlords controlling territories scattered about.

The conflict is characterized by a struggle for legitimacy, control over oil resources, human rights abuses, terrorism, and the influence of foreign powers, with the country still reeling from the aftermath of the 2011 civil war and the subsequent collapse of state institutions. (AI assisted)

The Iranian situation is massively larger and complex, with dozens of countries, ethnic and/or religious groups. All of this and a few thousand years of ugly history.

Old Blue

But Trump never has made a mistake, just ask him.

Be a shame if she had to curtail her earring purchases.

Signed Too Easy To Ignore.

One headline reads “Kristi Noem confronts grim truth that everyone is expendable in Trump world”

Everyone learns that at some point.

If I'm in town, I'm down! :) I will be in Orlando at some point of April, so just let me know.,

Where else but AQ? 😊 I love this place.

I SOOO jealous! You are in for a great experience. Please tell the folks there that DZ&ECP say hello.

I'm finalizing my first singleton postal this weekend/beginning of next week and am thinking about how I want to go about organizing the tracker. I've gone through some of the previous trackers for inspiration and think I have wording/rules figured out, but was wondering about the tracker participant signups limit.

What determines how many people you let into your trackers? Is it estimated mail time? Management? Logbook space? Lack of postal interest? Something else I'm not thinking of?

It seems like the average singleton postal tracker for this past year is limited to 8 participants and I was just wondering why that is?

Thanks everyone!