Put my outgoing cards in the mailbox this morning.
Mailman Eddie brought me a bounty today (and I don’t just mean my paycheck!)
From @silenus: a bonus card! A production painting of Sy Snootles and the Max Rebo band. The backside was treated roughly by the P.O.; it was postmarked on 3 of the 4 corners, and the joke silenus wrote was partially peeled off (but I was able to read it and it is funny.) Thanks, @silenus!
From @needscoffee, a holographic action photo of a running black cat, just like the one needscoffee has! Oooh, it has a psychedelic background too! Thanks, @needscoffee!
And from @Chad_Sudan, a panoramic photo of Yosemite National Park, a place I have never been despite residing in California. The back has interesting Yosemite facts. Thanks, @Chad_Sudan!
Reading the above post reminded me to check the mail. Score! @Karen_Lingel sent me a great card of the USS Hornet museum in Alameda. I’ve driven past it but never been on it. Thanks!
A couple of cards showed up today…yay!
From @Elendil_s_Heir, a card of Charles Willson Peale’s Washington at Princeton (the British prisoners “symbolically marching into his pocket” are a lot easier to make out on an uncropped image of the painting!).
And from @JaneDoe42, a collage of Route 66 imagery–very appropriate since I’m a big fan of the Mother Road. (I just spent 5 days on the stretch from ABQ to Arcadia OK back in May).
Thanks!
I spent all day in the hospital with my husband, who was having fun with A-Fib (rapid heart rate, upwards of 120 while sitting down.) When I got home, a cheery note from RollOuttheBarrel was there to greet me on the back of a shot of the capitol building in Sacramento.
It was perfect timing and just what I needed! thank you, Angela!
Glad you liked it! I hope your husband is doing OK.
Thank you. Hrs doing well and will be doing a treadmill stress test in the morning. We will know more then.
All the best to you both!
Today I received a bonus Star Wars postcard from @silenus, with a bonus Star Wars joke.
I also received a cool postcard of the USS Hornet Museum from @Karen_Lingel. That looks like a fascinating place to visit!
Thanks to both of you!
I sent my three out today. I fear they may need the help of a decoder bracelet to read my handwriting though.
Received my first postcard from @RollOutTheBarrel . A nice picture of the Sacramento Capitol building.
Just got mine from KarenLingel! A pic of the USS Hornet. Cool
Battles my way back online (comp failures) to thank both Elendil’s Heir and Blondbear for the post cards. I also received the George Washington card (he was a bit of a hotty) and Blondbear not only sent me a big fish from Wisconsin (not dead, though, LOL) I also reaceived a wonderful postcard book from the Madonna Inn In San Luis Obispo. Oh gosh, the understated opulence is amazing.
Thank you both so much!
Hey @JaneDoe42, your card arrived today as the first one this year. It shows a car squashed by a giant saguaro cactus. Thanks so much.
Card from @Reeses_Monkey arrived with words from the 1980s that are in the OED. Totally tubular!
Just got postcards from two in my group: a cheery card showing Arizona’s state symbols and stats from JaneDoe42, and a pulp novel cover for Rock ‘n Roll Gal and a collection of cards about Howard Hughes’s giant Spruce Goose aircraft from blondebear.
Also, bless her heart, Karen_Lingel very kindly sent me a bonus card, a nice (if, I gather, outdated) aerial view of the UC Berkeley campus.
Good stuff. My thanks to all!
Glad you liked it. I found it totally bitchin’!
I am very impressed, I expected it would take longer to get to your side of the world. I’m happy to know I was wrong.
I don’t know about the direction USA->Germany, but in my experience from many former Postcard Exchanges, cards from Germany to the US take about a week on average.
ETA: but sure, Arizona of course would take longer than from the East coast, so it really was a fast delivery.
We are out in the sticks, so our mail spends a day waiting to be delivered to a central hub in the big city before being sorted and sent on its way.
Here’s hoping that everyone’s cards will fly as swiftly!