This is a fun card, and the second in a row with the word “hello.”
Sara reports that she just opened my Christmas present and loved it. She correctly observed that I probably will know this by the time I get the postcard because she sent me a Marco Polo of her opening it.
She’s also still recovering from the flu, which she caught as she came home from Coeur d’Alene.
Sara added some stickers to this postcard. It made for a fun presentation. Fun fact: I have a duplicate of this postcard (sans stickers) displayed on my wall. You can see it in this post.
The Spokane postmark tells me that this came from Coeur d’Alene. Sara reports that they are doing some cleaning and organizing and that she found some Christmas stamps back from when stamps were 37 cents. She put two on my postcard.
Sara writes from Wallace, Idaho, where the town highlights the work done in the old brothels as well as the work done in the mines.
Not learned via this postcard, but learned via text: Lana Turner was born and raised in Wallace, Idaho, at least until her family relocated to Hollywood where Turner was discovered. That was news to this Idaho native.
Sara writes from the ski lodge that she had planned to do work while others skied, but the noise and the lack of easy wifi access had her turning in other directions.
This postcard is from a new set of women artists.
Another NCTE postcard!
This postcard was posted in Boise, where Sara reports that they visited the Boise Botanical Garden’s Winter Garden aGlow (an aside: why is it styled that way??? “Aglow” is already a word that implies things with glow. No need to cap the G.)
Sara reported that it was quite a fun outing.
This one also came from NCTE, but from the previous year.
She asks if I find the stickers she pasted on the back to be affirming. They are: OK! (3) and Good Try! (3).
I vote those stickers are not affirming. There were a few Great, Wow, which I thought were affirming, and there was one very odd Mon Cheri one that just seems like a no.
This is postmarked 12/10, so it only took 3 days for it to arrive. A rarity.
Sara wrote this one while waiting for jury duty. She made it to voir dire, but wasn’t selected. She’s one, like me, who wants to serve on a jury, so that was bad news to her.
Sara sent this fun postcard (sure to be a Postcrossing favorite) from Newport. She correctly predicts that I will love the postcard.
She reports that Newport is sunny on 11/30, which is a big win after the atmospheric rivers and bomb cyclones of recent weeks.
Another postcard from the historic Albany, Oregon, site! But posted from Arcata, California.
Sara reports that Shawn is volunteering at the elections office from Saturday through Tuesday and that she is enjoying a quiet house.
Sara asked me to guess where she and Shawn stopped on their way back to Arcata. I’m going to guess at the Albany Historic Carousel & Museum.
Sara reports that they got a tour and got to ride on Frederick the Hare.
Margin Coffee was also a stop. They had London Fogs on the menu, which is always a good sign.
I note that both of these are postmarked in Portland, meaning that Sara posted them in Albany, the postcards were collected, transported to Portland, and only then postmarked. I’m not pleased with this updated system. Albany deserves a postmark!
