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!
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.
This postcard opens with “What do you think? When was this taken?”
Look at those white shorts and that hair! I agree with Sara’s call that this picture is from the 90s. She reports that everyone they’ve seen on the cable cars has had their phones out and on.
This next postcard is from the same day. It’s a very classic postcard message of what they were up to.
It sounds like a fun day of wandering, especially the de Young Sculpture garden.
But more importantly, this postcard marks the transition from postcard stamps being shells. Sara and I have both hated the shells and they seem to have been holding on as the postcard stamp for a much longer time than previous choices. Now we are into the tropical fish!
I’m not sure, but she may have bought a roll of 100 postcard stamps just to avoid another round of shells.
Here is postcard 1 of 2! Sara said that she meant to send the Boise postcards from Boise, but alas, they came to me from California.
I quite like this Basque card!
Also arriving is this postcard from Tampa where Sara was attending a conference. She reports that this was her hotel and that the Florida weather has been lovely.
Apparently not for Floridians, who keep saying it was cold.
This came as postcard 2 of 2 so we will have to wait to see what the first one says.
I love this, though, because it’s from the Basque Museum in Boise. If you grow up in Boise, you grow to love the Basques. Who wouldn’t, with their complex last names and delicious food?
The back of this postcard says: “‘You’re cutting the onions and the leeks…and you look across the table and there’s a second cousin,’ Ed Orbea says. ‘So then everything stops and hugs and kisses and back pats.’ Orbea stirs leeks and onions on a stove top in the basement of the Basque Center in Boise, Idaho. These ingredients are used to make mortzilla sausage for the Basque community’s annual Mortzilla Dinner & Bazaar.
Sara says that she and Shawn can’t get over how downtown Boise has transformed. There’s a whole new skyline.
Sara took most of the postcard reminding me that today (as she wrote this on 11/8) three years ago was THE election. Yep. That happened. I will not ever think of pickle shots without thinking of that night.
In other news, S&S are having a nice trip and spent Saturday wandering the shops.
Sara reports that her mom and Aunt Nancy visited, which led to the procurement of this postcard. All involved enjoyed a rainy walk through the Lady Bird Johnson Grove.
Subtitle: someone really needs some glasses. Sorry for the blurry photo.
Sara writes from the last weekend of summer. She and Shawn visited Willow Creek for Big Foot Daze. There was a parade!
Sara reports that they tried local wine and walked the beach and ate wonderful tacos and torta.
She also points out that there are couple of distilleries in the area that we could visit when I come for an extended visit.
This is not the loveliest of postcards, but the message on the back was most welcome.
Sara sent me another preview of August coming attractions.
I bought this same postcard when we visited, so you can also say it’s a preview of coming postcards.
She wonders if any of these things are on our list. I can say, in a preview of coming blog posts, that we visited at least three of these sites.
