Category: Mail

Sara writes from the ski lodge that she had planned to do work while others skied, but the noise and the lack of easy wifi access had her turning in other directions.

This postcard is from a new set of women artists.

Another NCTE postcard!

This postcard was posted in Boise, where Sara reports that they visited the Boise Botanical Garden’s Winter Garden aGlow (an aside: why is it styled that way??? “Aglow” is already a word that implies things with glow. No need to cap the G.)

Sara reported that it was quite a fun outing.

This one also came from NCTE, but from the previous year.

She asks if I find the stickers she pasted on the back to be affirming. They are: OK! (3) and Good Try! (3).

I vote those stickers are not affirming. There were a few Great, Wow, which I thought were affirming, and there was one very odd Mon Cheri one that just seems like a no.

This is postmarked 12/10, so it only took 3 days for it to arrive. A rarity.

Sara wrote this one while waiting for jury duty. She made it to voir dire, but wasn’t selected. She’s one, like me, who wants to serve on a jury, so that was bad news to her.

Sara sent this fun postcard (sure to be a Postcrossing favorite) from Newport. She correctly predicts that I will love the postcard.

She reports that Newport is sunny on 11/30, which is a big win after the atmospheric rivers and bomb cyclones of recent weeks.

Another postcard from the historic Albany, Oregon, site! But posted from Arcata, California.

Sara reports that Shawn is volunteering at the elections office from Saturday through Tuesday and that she is enjoying a quiet house.

Sara asked me to guess where she and Shawn stopped on their way back to Arcata. I’m going to guess at the Albany Historic Carousel & Museum.

Sara reports that they got a tour and got to ride on Frederick the Hare.

Margin Coffee was also a stop. They had London Fogs on the menu, which is always a good sign.

I note that both of these are postmarked in Portland, meaning that Sara posted them in Albany, the postcards were collected, transported to Portland, and only then postmarked. I’m not pleased with this updated system. Albany deserves a postmark!

This postcard came from a postcard pack that Shawn bought from LiarTown, a site in which I also now want to purchase postcards from. They have a funny Portland, Oregon, series, like this one called the Emerald Village.

Sara reports she is having a bit of a catch-up day.

I like that the year is listed on this tiny poster/large postcard. Often they are not, and I get annoyed because why wouldn’t people want to know in what year the concert took place?

Sara got to see the Indigo Girls at this concert with Shawn and her sister Jess. However, as you can see from the postmark on the wrong side, she sent it to me after she got home to Arcata. She reports that the Indigo Girls did “Galileo” as one of their last songs. It seems like an apt closing song.