Day #102

A mish-mash of outgoing today.


Actually the top 3 are pen pal letters (two of which were re-mails because I made stupid mistakes in addressing them), but the bottom one was a "dear Rodrigo letter." This young man from Brasil and I have nothing in common and I find his letters to be more of an irritant. I thought I would just not answer, but he sent another letter, so I wrote to let him know that I just didn't think it was going to work out. He's younger than my children and seems to only be interested in heavy metal music and getting drunk. NOT my kinda guy!


Only two things incoming, but what fun. Lynn, in Pennsylvania sent a getting to know you letter. She was the first person to write first and I found her letter charming. And then Treva wrote a letter that for a time I thought I wasn't going to be able to get out of the envelope because she had it taped so securely, but she included such fun things, including a regular post card, the "world's tiniest postcard," and some blank postcards for decorating.

Day #89

well, the card on the left below is my first attempt at "mail art." We'll see how it goes. It is an addition to one of the cards I got in China, hopefully making it more interesting.

The others are a response to a penpal, a response to a new person on SendSomething with whom I find I have much in common (age being one things!), and a postcard to a guy in France from PostCrossing.

Incoming is a postcard from PostCrossing and a card from someone who saw my name on SendSomething and wrote because she used to live in Davis and still considers this home.


(the PostCrossing postcard is from Taiwan but it is a card that someone in Sweden sent to her!)

Day #88

I added these to the outgoing mail I collected over the long weekend.


Both were Sendsomething people. Haley is in NY and is an actress...plus likes biking and works in a no-kill shelter. Except for the 50 year difference in our ages, we could be contemporaries! LOL. The envelope I chose for her was a program from Oliver! which, as an actress, I thought she would appreciate.

In the afternoon, I had a lapful of incoming mail.


I'm not sure where the post card came from, but I suspect it was someone from the IUMA, since it doesn't seem to be a postcrossing postcard. The letter with the Gregory Peck stamp was great, a new penpal with whom I have much in common. The other two were from pen pals I've been writing to for awhile, since I started this project, and both were such fun to receive.