Day #308

Again, I had good intentions to write, and actually got half of a letter written, but then came news that another friend had just died (the second long-term close friend this week) and that pretty much ended any chatty letter writing.

But it was a good feeling to get these incoming messages.

The envelope from Bonnie is from the orphan postcard project, with more postcards for me to write, there was a letter from my penpal in Germany, one from a penpal in So. Africa, and two Swap Bot cards.

Day #298

This is actually 15 postcards and a letter.  I am in a Swap-Bot swap where you send 5 postcards in an envelope to someone.  I chose strange cards that matched the interests of the person to whom I was writing...I hope.  The letter is to one of my faithful (and patient) pen pals.

Some nice postcards in the mail.  The top right is for a Swap-Bot exchange; it's from New South Wales in Austraila.  Next to it is "Dorothy's House" in Liberal, Kansas.  This was for another Swap-Bot exchange, for a poem on a post card.  The writer chose Langdon Smith's 1895 poem, "Evolution."  Bottom left is the British museum from my cousin's widower, Fred, who is visiting London at present, and the bottom right is a Postcrossing card from Amish Country.

Day #260

I sent off a few things in the mail today. Two were postcrossing cards, one was a card to sendsomething (which I've forgotten about lately!). Then there was a thank you note, a letter to an author who just joined sendsomething (I'll be curious to see if she was really interested in correspondents or just publicizing her book), and two pen pal letters, one to the US and one to Germany.

Ok. There were hand delivered by my husband, for himself and for our dogs ("the girls"), but they still count as incoming mail on Valentine's Day.

This was the only incoming mail, a postcrossing card of Hong Kong, but mailed from Sacramento, 20 miles from here!

Day #241

Trying to get past the inertia that descended upon me during the holidays...and deal with the time it takes to bottlefeed and raise a puppy. I did get one rather lengthy letter written today.

Incoming was kinder to me than I deserved. One nice post-crossing card, a letter from Sarah in the UK, and I loved the candy-themed envelope from Cindy here in California.

Happy New Year!

The nice thing about going away is coming home to a nice pile of mail!

The stack included nice Christmas cards from Noreen, Barbara, Limner and Patty...


Post-crossing cards from France, South Padre Island, Singapore and China....

A letter from a new friend from Bellingham, WA

a letter from my sponsored child, Anjali, in India.

...and two great letters from Barbara in Germany and Mariska in The Netherlands.

There were also not one but TWO letters to Kimi which were returned for a bad address, though they were sent to the return address on her envelopes!

With all this great mail to read, a suitcase to unpack, a new puppy to get settled in...and a new smart phone to learn, I didn't write to anybody myself!

Day #200

I actually didn't write anything yesterday and, since it was Sunday, didn't receive anything either. However, I did make new envelopes and used a couple of them today.

One was in response from someone who contacted me through my address on this page, one was to a penpal in Germany, and one was to my 3rd & 5th grade teacher, to let her know her e-mail account had been hacked. When I knew her in grammar school she was Sister Mary X. Now the nuns have taken their given names so she is Kathleen XX. I got an e-mail from Kathleen XX (her last name is not a common one) which begins: "Hello, Handsome. My name is Rose." I sent her a snail mail letter to let her know that she had been hacked, but told her I was glad to hear that she thought me handsome.


In the afterenoon was a nice card from our own Elle Mental, a letter from my Compassion child Murugi in Kenya, a post-crossing card and, coincidentally, a letter from Kathleen XX, in answer to my previous letter. There was also a letter from the lady who sent me a 30 page introductory letter. she said she would try to be shorter in this letter, which is "only" 25 pages. I always think *I* write long letters, but I'm a piker compared to this woman!!

Day #196

I wrote a long letter to my former teacher, Sister Kathleen. and sent 2 post-crossing cards

Two most-welcomed letters in the afternoon, one from Colorado and one from Germany. also a post-crossing card from France.

Day #173

Here are the letters I wrote today.

The bottom one is an envelope I made out of an ad for an upcoming production of Oklahoma!, and I liked what I did with the back of the envelope...

...adding the title of the show pasted on to seal the envelope.

And there were fun things in the mailbox today too.

...a postcrossing card from Italy (my first from that country) and three meaty pen pal letters, including the announcement of impending twins due in May. "The happiest times are when babies come" (Miss Melanie, GWTW)

Day #166

Two post-crossing postcards this morning, including a second one to the same recipient, since I forgot I had already sent a postcard. Also a pen pal letter.

But what a joy to get the mail this afternoon!

Lessee...There was 2 Swap-Bot letters, and a Swap-Bog postcard, a post-crossing post card (and that picture with the buildings is actually a two-sided post card, which came in an envelope), a packet from Compassion, Int'l with information about my newest sponsored child, and a letter from someone who decided to write to me after following this web page. I just love it when people do that!

Day #137

These were two penpal letters that I sent, one of which was an introductory letter through SwapBot.

But incoming was a sweet note and also a great letter from someone in Germany, whom I want to get to know.