Day #218

Only two letters got written today, one may be the penultimate letter to Soldier Amanda, who will be back in the states for Christmas. Her C.O. says last date for mail from home is December 5. The other was to a penpal.

It's the Sunday after Thanksgiving and a lot of time was spent stripping all the edible meat off the turkey carcass and getting it ready to go into the crock pot for overnight cooking, prior to making a turkey stew tomorrow.

Day #217

Two post-crossing cards mailed today, along with a reply to a pen pal.

Incoming was a post-crossing card from the Netherlands, and a couple of pen pal replies

And then there is this fun gift from an anonymous person in Poland, who writes, "Please accept this small gift as a token of appreciation for promoting letter writing. As you will notice, there is no return address. Including one could suggest that -- contrary to my statement -- I might want something in return. Keep up the good work."

Thank you so MUCH. I am just tickled by this, and very grateful.

Day #216

Today was our belated Thanksgiving, but I woke early and had enough time to write a letter before we left for my mother's house.

The nice thing about doing a holiday a day late is that when you come home, there is a nice mailbox full of mail. This was a good batch, including a post-crossing card from Neuschwanstein Castle

Day #215

I got three postcards ready to mail tomorrow.


This being Thanksgiving, there was no incoming mail. We didn't celebrate because my son was busy having dinner with his in-laws, but tomorrow we are taking a turkey and all the trimmings to my mother's and we will have our Thanksgiving dinner there, just the five of us.

Day #214

Got a new pen pal from the Netherlands today. What a fun letter to answer. Also got the address of a Post-crossing person who included no information whatsoever, so I went with a generic California postcard.

Got a nice postcard from Kimi and a very nice letter from SaraLea. A nice way to pass the afternoon.

Day #213

I only wrote two letters today, but they were kind of long. I love the envelopes, one of which is an ad for a local production of "A Christmas Carol." The bird one I particularly like--and I had to block out the names so I wouldn't spoil the surprise, in case either of the recipients checks this page.

I did get incoming mail, but it was a bit of a surprise. It was a letter from Day #211 that I had mailed two days ago, which was delivered back to me. It was in that stamp patterned envelope, with the address information written on an address label that I bought at the post-office! I had to go back to the post office to ask what the problem was and was told that they had goofed. No wonder the post office is in trouble.

I remember years ago when I used to get a lot of international mail. A letter came addressed to "Mrs. Beverly, Davis, California." It was delivered to me!!! (I should mention that this is a town with a population of 60,000.) That was also during the days when I would go into the office, be greeted by name and someone would call out my address if I was there to pick up mail.

Then they stopped sorting letters here, but sent them to Sacramento to be sorted. I addressed something to Longs Drugs at the intersection of Covell and Sycamore and it was returned for a better address. Because the mail was sorts in Sacramento, they didn't have a clue what was at that intersection. It's been downhill ever since.

Now, a properly addressed envelope, with the proper postage can't be delivered, but involves a trip to the post office for me to send it on its way again (and it will be interesting to see if it gets delivered this time).

Day #212

This represents a Swap-Bot envelope, a letter to my 3rd & 5th grade teacher, and a postcard wishing a letter-writing Blogger a Happy Thanksgiving


The afternoon mail needs two pictures. In this one, there are Post-Crossing cards from "100 km south from the polar circle,", one from a village next to a river in Croatia, one from the Ukraine which is identified as "City Square Altanka Center" and a terrific card from New Hampshire, with a cut-out of a bear paw on it. Also a nice pen pal letter.

And then there was this envelope from a Swap-Bot swap with all sorts of terrific goodies in it. The only thing missing is the 2-page letter that was supposed to be the heart of it. But all the goodies were fun. That postcard on the right edge, under the whales is the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, which Jeri has visited. The particular picture was taken in 1907.