1012. Tardy Tardis - limited time
planted rather tardily for Boxing Day friends in our backyard

We had already pulled this Tardis snowflake (on loan from connecticut croaker) from its home at the site of the last public pay phone in Charlestown, RI when we found out that some of our nearest letterboxing neighbors hadn’t yet gotten them. When asked why, they said they couldn’t get the clues because our letterboxing site was still down. Turns out they had only been checking LbNA, and had entirely missed our email message to them that we had started listing some of our more recent clues directly on AQ to avoid that down-site problem!

Well, what to do? We were heading south with some of these snowflakes right after Christmas, so pretty much all we had time for was replanting them for our friends for only about 24 hours in our backyard! Normally we would prefer not to do something so contrary to the original spirit of letterboxing as set down by our American “founding fathers”, who had promoted a healthy style of letterboxing that would have unrestricted public access, free and open to all for more than just a few days (or-gasp-hours!), so people could go and have nice active individualized letterboxing adventures out in nature at their own convenience. However, given the present circumstances (plus the fact that we had been really hoping to reach our own personal goal of F1000 by the end of 2019 and thought that wouldn’t be possible because we had been far too busy with other things for almost the entire month of December!), having the kind of “private backyard stamp party” apparently favored over traditional American letterboxing by some of the current generation of “numbers stampers and planters” would be the obvious “quick and easy fix” for us “old-school boxers” to do in this case, too! (shame, shame on us for once again going down that “slippery stamping slope”, but hopefully it’s just a temporary “mirroring of these factional, narcissistic times we live in”, and we’ll get back to true traditional letterboxing soon, right?;-)

Anyway, to find the Tardis snowflake planted very late on Christmas day, just turn right after passing north through the cedar archway, to head toward the road. Tardis hangs in a black pouch on a south-facing branch of the largest white pine.

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