Can We Talk?

We're all like family here, right?

It's been an interesting week here in Pineconeville! We've experienced both the highs and lows of letterboxing . . . .

Lows:

* Published the 10th in our interview series with what we thought was a gangbuster interview with silverbacks Don & Gwen from CA. While these interviews have been widely accepted in the past and were always an event when published, this recent one went totally unobserved.

Sure - the interview page received a lot of hits but we heard from only 2 people - one via post on the LBNA and one personal email. Have these interview reached their saturation point? Maybe the boxing community is just not interested in them any longer. I'm not saying that I want a huge outpouring of remarks but only 2 people even acknowledged that they existed. Our purpose is to preserve the thoughts and accomplishments of those early boxers and we feel that we have done this so maybe that should be reward in and of itself.

Highs:

* We received notice on one of our very first HH's, Ken Sings Kensington, placed at the Maine Event in August of 2003! The HH is a joint collaboration between Delerium (she carved) and ourselves (we placed.) Great to hear about this one since it's been almost 3 1/2 years since we've heard of the status of this one!


* On the newboxers talk list, the Wildcats posted about following a family of new boxers on a recent hunt. The parents let the children rehide the boxes which consisted of just throwing them near the hidey holes because the kids didn't like the bugs that were swarming around! The Wildcats, after talking to the family, realized that this new family didn't have a trail name, were not members of the talk list and were just out there boxing willy nilly as a result of some local article about letterboxing.

The Wildcats took the extra time - almost 2 hours worth - to walk with the family, help the with the fine art of rehiding and encourage them to join the newboxers list. This series is owned by David of Team New Hampshire and after the Wildcats notified him, he publically thanked the Wildcats on the talk list.

The Wildcats reply was something like "Mark & Sue helped us so much when we started between their blog and in person, always welcoming us. We felt that we had to do the same to this family."

Wow! Pay it forward! Thanks, Alice, you really made our week!
All in all, not a bad week here!
And so it goes . . . .