Sara sent me this postcard to mark that she has almost finished watching the series Lovesick (the one with Johnny Flynn, Antonia Thomas, and Daniel Ings).
Like me, she found the series a good distraction from ALL THE THINGS!
Look what arrived in my mailbox today!
Things I enjoy about this postcard:
Sara was taken (as was I) by the fact that is is both a postcard AND a bookmark.
Granted a postcard could be used as a bookmark at any point if the book is bigger than the postcard, but this has a detachable postcard built right in!
I think more postcards should make this evolutionary link.
Laurie sent this postcard from McMenamins because she and Burt were staying at the Anderson School and were given a free postcard. As I’m the person in her life who does postcards, she thought of me.
Laurie writes, “Looking forward to sharing some adventures (McMenamins and otherwise) with you in the future.”
I’ve sent this postcard myself. I quite like it. Thanks, Laurie.
This postcard comes from that other city that advertises itself as weird. (To be fair, they did it first. The “Keep Portland Weird” bumper stickers were copied from already existing bumper stickers in Austin.)
Rachel writes: “I’m going to make a bold statement. Austin is not as weird as Portland. I took the bus into and back from downtown…and people queued up to get on, the buses were clean and silent, and everyone just read or were on their phones. No one farted aggressively at me, told me about hospice work, or tried to convert me.”
So there we have it. Rachel assigns the weirdness crown to Portland.
I love these old fashioned map postcards. It would be fun to walk around Eureka and see how many of these buildings are still standing.
Sara reports that Shawn visited an actual coffee farm when he went to Costa Rica. This postcard comes with their coffee club shipment.
This byway cuts across Northern California. In these series of postcards, Sara reports that it’s been a busy weekend.
She expresses a desire for an additional weekend day, which is a feeling I am familiar with.
I’m not sure if all four of these postcards arrived on the same day. My guess is that they didn’t but that they did arrive in quick succession.
1/2 and 2/2 arrived on the same day!
This first postcard comes from, you guessed it, the town of Ferndale, the Victorian City, where Sara and Shawn spent the day with Shawn’s parents. They enjoyed strolling in the quaint downtown.
Apparently also Ferndale is the home of Guy Fieri, American restaurateur, author, and an Emmy Award winning television presenter. He went to high school in the town and had his first restaurant job here.
We missed out on Ferdale, opting instead for the county fair. But I look forward to catching up with her charms.
This is dated 1/14. Sara informs me that they are not recieving mail at the new house until the new mailbox shows up. She wonders when this will make it’s way to me.
And now we know! The Eureka postmark is 21 January and it took a normal three days to get here.
All hail the USPS!
It’s been a few years since my stationary box has been in use, but I’m feeling like 2020 will be the year of more correspondence. So I’ve stocked it with note cards, postcards and stationary. The box will sit in a drawer in the kitchen for easy access.
In other news, I love those state and county fair stamps!
Sara sends this greeting while she unpacks (from her move—the second in less than six months) and does laundry.
She hopes my 2020 is off to a great start.
Hopefully 2020 will end with an exit of fascist liars.
