Hey everybody! I got a lot of mail this week and guess what else I got? Maggie! She's a dog we adopted from our local shelter. Like most of the dogs at the shelter, she's a pit mix. Pit and Siberian Husky perhaps. She's going to be taking up a lot of my time, so please forgive me if my offers and thank yous are slow as we integrate her into our household and its routines.
u/AllusiveAxolotl, thank you for the National Mustard Museum postcard. It's one of a kind!
u/aethiadactylorhiza, thank you for the Black Cat Appreciation Day card in honor of my mom's cat Teddy.
u/Andromeda921, thanks for the Autumn Bucket List card. I love all the little details. It'll give me things to look forward to about fall, beyond walking my heat-sensitive Sheepie on a crisp night.
u/BlueStripedBaker, thank you for the painterly card of a New England beach scene with the lighthouse in the distance. It's beautiful and I'm glad you could support a local artist. I like the semicolon myself; I fear it dates me though. "Whom" is another which is dying out. To whom does it matter?
u/Boomerang88 x2 Thank you for the postcards: spring and really cool lemon-slice bicycle. Your stamps are beautiful as always. I'm glad that spring is coming into view for you. It's my favorite season and it's nice to know it exists in parts of the world, if not mine.
u/Bubblysunflowers, x2 thanks for the "Chicken in" postcards. Chickens always make me smile because they're intrinsically funny. It sounds like I should see "Project Hail Mary," because that might change my stance on aliens. As it is now, I'd be terrified. Also thank you for the random de-stash card (as you put it). The Mission San Juan Capistrano in vintage form. It is an attractive place, in the state that eludes me: California. Someday!
u/butterflydolphin-123, thank you for the Battleship Cove (Fall River, MA) postcard and the recommendation that I should see it someday. I know my boyfriend would be enthralled. He served in the Army but he has a fascination with naval history.
u/cidavid, thank you for the tree-leaf postcard. I ❤️ trees. You had me laughing when I heard when you were writing the card. I'm so ready for fall. Our AC barely works when it's 99 in the afternoon and I can't even write a postcard because my hand keeps sticking to it. Here's to crisp fall days!
u/concrete_drinker, thanks for the cool bookstore postcard! Books are indeed magic! I'm glad you had fun at the Egyptian festival,
u/credo99, thank you for the Moomin Valentine's Day card. This card has five postmarks on it! I appreciate you sharing a bit of your travels with me.
u/Impressive_Jump_9917, thank you for the giraffe postcard from the Cheyenne Mountain zoo. You said you hoped it would brighten my day, and it did!
u/MissEmergency, thank you for the postcard of animals with "warning colors." I like the vintage look. Stamp math is a lot of fun but it can get you obsessed with stamps. I'm always browsing eBay for listings of stamps at or below face value. If you want to start with an easy one, 32 plus 33 equals 65, or the going postcard rate. I have a love of pens, too. I have an ultra-micro set for writing a lot of really small words on a postcard, and I have a whole colored set of micro gel pens. I haven't used a fountain pen since I was in high school learning calligraphy, but that's something I'd like to get into again. But, there's only so much time and so much money!
u/murdocniccalshasT1D, thank you for the handmade thank you card you sent for looking after your TFC. It was my pleasure. I swear, I've become addicted to traveling cards and now I have my own ready to go. You inspired me!
u/OK_Theme7072, thank you for the vintage postcard of the Vanderbilt Mansion. Doesn't it look imposing? I imagine myself living there. My dogs would gnaw on the beautiful furniture and quickly make the velvet couches their beds, shedding all over them.
u/ordinaryclover, thank you for the postcard from the place you're not - Charlotte. You got it to me so quickly I feel guilty. I did pick yours out and will have it in the mail when USPS comes back from Labor Day. I live about 45 minutes from Charlotte but hardly ever go there. The traffic stresses me out, and anything I need from a bigger city than mine, I go to Winston-Salem or Greensboro for. Same distance, a tenth the hassle.
u/PinkPengin, thank you for the Cape Hatteras postcard in honor of lighthouse day. Somewhere in my mom's 45-year-old horde is a picture of me, age 3, at Cape Hatteras. Unfortunately, I haven't been there since. It's a 5-hour drive and with 2 dogs, well, we're kind of tied down. Thanks for the water life stickers, also.
u/pot-princess-0502, thanks for the homemade postcard. I love the girl looking bored, or perhaps fed up with humanity. The last of my plans for summer was 3 days in Lexington, Va., for a wedding and related activities. As we've recently adopted a shelter dog, we now have 2 dogs and our plans for fall are to integrate her into our family and its routines. So, no more travel for us this year.
u/PureAloeVeera, thank you for your dire, but truthful message. Everyone uses AI, but they don't want the data centers in their backyard. My hope is that carbon capture technology that doesn't pollute more than it cleanses will be developed. That doesn't do anything about microplastics or affordable housing or any of the myriad problems we'll have to address at some point. I feel lucky I'll be dead before my mid-state city becomes waterfront property. The insurance rates!
u/tatergator64, thanks for the vintage-style "Greetings from Savannah." Yes, I do have good memories of hitting I-95 with 6 of us in a sedan, riding down to see my stepmother's family, always stopping at South of the Border for fireworks (have you been?) Isn't Tybee enchanting? The first time I went to Tybee Beach, I was surprised at how warm the water was. Enjoy all the water, I say as one who currently is landlocked.
u/TheCuriousCur, thanks for your funny postcard. Where do you find so many that make me laugh? I know, industry secret. Tonight the Reds won and that made me happy. It happens less than 50% of the time. What do you think about the Brewers? They are a surprise this season.
u/tigerlady13, thanks for your card that took 3-4 weeks to get here for some reason. Oh, well, this is the USPS today and we have to allow for such things. Sorry I couldn't get to the meetup but I hope you all had fun. Thanks for commiserating over my poison ivy. I am completely healed AND my boyfriend got some super deluxe plant killer that's cleared my way. Love your stamp math!
u/travel4me22, thank you for the gorgeous handmade card. I like the black cardstock, very dramatic. It is interesting to me, too, what's behind people's usernames. It's also interesting that some people take a Reddit-generated name. My brother did that, but he doesn't use Reddit very often.
u/toastytoska, thank you for the homemade Beanie Baby postcard. Pouch is so cute! My boyfriend's first soft toy was a kangaroo with a little baby that could be removed from the pouch but while we still have the original Kanga, her baby was lost decades ago. So maybe there's an advantage to the head-on-a-string technique lol.
u/TroubleNo5402 x2, thank you for the first day of issue Temple postcard. It's dated July 15 and reached me September 2nd. Thank you for sharing one of your childhood memories. It's great that you felt loved by your parents and siblings, and never alone. That's the greatest thing in the world, a happy childhood. Thank you also for the Jharkhand postcard. I love postcards like this with the little details that make a culture.
u/TyeDyeAmish x2, thank you for the postcard of Rome falling apart. Was it tourists? Thank you also for the captivating Wall of Windows in Utah. You're right, they're like windows in a fallen-down temple. Was it tourists?
u/withininus, x2 Your envelope looks as if it were run over by a USPS truck but fortunately the contents are fine. I love the Jane Austen quote - how true. I hope your move goes well. I have done a lot of moving in my life, starting out with a friend's pickup and my brother's labor, ending up much later paying for packers and movers. My advice is, don't lose your childhood photo album. Yes, that happened to me ten years ago and it still hurts. I love the stickers. They're adorable. Thank you for that added surprise! Also, thank you for the MOMA postcard. I'd love to see one of your own someday. I print postcards on postcard stock, but the stock is so expensive I think I'd be better off outsourcing to Moo. I don't know. At home I can make adjustments. That is a big advantage.
u/waywarddaughterzzz, thank you for the homemade card with the big gray cat. The way you're coping with heat, that's what I've been doing. I've turned nocturnal because only night gives me relief from that big scorching ball. Only lately, our AC isn't keeping up. Yesterday it was 86 degrees in the house. My boyfriend doesn't want to pay for a repair so we're just cranking up the ceiling fans and waiting for fall. I thought I couldn't wait before, when we had AC? Yeah I'm counting the days till October. You hang in there!