[RR] North American August 2022 Round Robin - The "It's Hotter than Blazes" Edition - Closed!

[Cruzin]

#3 received

#1 @cawindt one of my favorite amendments too!! Hope you got a contract signed!

#4 @jenhart LOL - I felt the same way when I cleaned out my postcards…. Some were so awesome, and others were like “where in the world did I get these”!

#7 @mere5oh I hope your fur baby is healing!! I feel you on vet bills - we had to pay our daughters bill for her fur baby……

#11 @volvomom this is a “Christmas Carol” interpretation?? LOL!

#12 @Yarn-Lady Dylan!! Lucky you seeing him!!

#21 @mdmsamm love this card!! I wish I could think far enough in advance to start making my cards for the holidays,

#27 @beatriceh This card speaks the truth!!! I would have though Penn State would have cards…but so random sometimes where there are or aren’t postcards! My problem is I find nothing but tourist cards around here…. When I find a stationary store I have to say “non-tourist “ and they still look at me weird and say “try Cannery Row”.

#29 @melvnoble Sounds like a great museum!! Not sure if I’d walk through with my eyes closed half the time, but it would be interesting to go to1

Thank you all for the great cards and words!!!

[cawindt]

Another big update from me! So many amazing cards have arrived since my last report. Thank you to:

#4 @jenhart for the rather appropriate “Landmarks of the Twin Cities” card. We were just there last weekend! I saw many of the items on the card! As I didn’t find any cards to actually buy, this card is perfect

#6 @mikeyz1 for the awesome “City of Presidents” care of Madison. Yeah, I become more and more critical of many of the Founding Fathers as the years progress. The two that I have the highest esteem for are John Adams and Thomas Paine, neither of whom owned slaves and both of whom were highly critical of the institution.

#7 @mere5oh for the great “End of the Trail” tile. I actually sent this card once, as I received it in a pack of cards from Pomegranate, so I am happy to have it in my collection as a postally used card. I can’t wait to see all of the cool things you do with your exchange students this year!

#8 @Shesa-Renegade for the hilarious “The Mewnited States of Ameowica” card. Love it!! Hmmm, I may consider a subscription!

#9 @jbbauer for the fabulous cat card! Our cat Jupiter used to sit like that on the chair in the living room, and I have to admit, I put a bottle next to him and took a picture pretty similar to this card! I still have my grandma’s afghan that she made for my high school graduation in shades of blue. That was the graduation gift for all of her grandchildren. I will always treasure it.

#10 @emotis for the cool Lexington, Mass. card. I can’t believe how old your boys are getting!

#11 @volvomom for the great Soviet poster encouraging people to cut back on alcohol consumption. Students start back on Tuesday!

#12 @Yarn-Lady for the amazing Polynesian voyaging canoe card. I’m still astounded by how the people of the Pacific travelled around.

#13 @ladybug513 for the wonderful Philly city hall card. I remember taking refuge in the courtyard of the city hall when I was walking around the city a couple years back when it was like 100+ degrees. I hope you enjoy Cape May!

#16 @jacieslar for the great stamp card! The summer sure did fly by!

#21 @mdmsamm for the fabulous Portrait of Robert F. Kennedy card. I love it! I really love the escarpment area in Ontario. One of the last road trips we took before the pandemic was the weekend of Canadian Thanksgiving in 2019. We spent part of the trip in Niagara-on-the-Lake and we drove throughout the countryside. Maybe we’ll do that again this October!

#25 @Missy99 for the cool view of the North Carolina state house. I started hosting exchange students at the request of one of the many exchange students whom I taught over the years. She said that she thought we’d make great host parents.

#27 @beatriceh for the great Caravaggio painting! I did run for office - a write in candidate for precinct delegate. Supposedly I won, but I still haven’t heard official word yet and the local political organization is rather disorganized and doesn’t really know what I should be doing. Good times!

#29 @melvnoble for the awesome card from the Museum of the American Revolution in Philly. One of my good friends is director of education there. She’s so happy to be out of the classroom. Let me tell you, if I could find a great job like that, I’d jump from the classroom in a heartbeat!

#30 @RockyRoadTrip for the blast from the past card showing a magazine cover with Bruce Willis & Demi Moore. I certainly hope there’s not going to be a GI Jane II!!

Thanks again to everyone. I also appreciate all of the amazing stamps that you used.

[beatriceh]

Congrats!

[cawindt]

Unfortunately, still no contract.

[LaurenceB]

18 reporting - Managed to rock baby back to sleep

5 @carolreader sent a fabulous LP geometric card of Cuyahoga Valley! Thank you soo much, very happy to add it to my collection. I love this series so much! It must be great to have a beautiful hiking spot nearby! I admire you being so active, I gotta get back moving. It’s hard with the little kids. Though chasing them around and breastfeeding are workouts in themselves!

8 @Shesa-Renegade sent a gorgeous peacock! Thank you for introducing me to this new Etsy shop! Their work is so beautiful, might need to place an order myself I just love discovering artists through Postcrossing! Thank you for sharing the facts about yourself

13 @ladybug513 sent a beautiful South Carolina map from my faves! Thank you soo much for another great choice! And I absolutely adore the Thomas Point Shoal stamp! Hope the new floor looks amazing. We will need to do the same once all the kids are older

15 @AccentOnHakes sent California large letters! Yay thank you so much! In my album I put the reprints next to the original vintage one if I do have it Enjoy your time in CA! My best friend is a doctor too and I know all about not seeing her during her studies. Now at least she isn’t moving around as much, and only lives 2 hours away!

16 @jacieslar sent a majestic lion! Thank you very much! We’ve been to a zoo last week but missed the big cats, and it was so hot and the kids were so tired, so we left anyways We are having a beautiful sunny weekend and I will go in the pool with my son later, so yes, this is a perfect day

17 @YOIYUMTEWA sent another great happy mail package! Grand Central architecture, and a vintage linen North Carolina large letters Thank you soo much!!! Gorgeous one! Weather is all over the place here, sometimes crazy hot, others very cold. Today is one of those crazy hot ones!!!

19 @ellistrations sent Mila Marquis flamingos!!! AH FRIEND this card is perfect!!! I love it so much! And I had never seen this design before I have bought so many Mila cards too, including many with flamingos, but somehow never saw that specific one!! It’s amazing, thank you so much!! That blind set looks awesome, might need to order from your supplier

25 @Missy99 sent an amazing illustrated squirrel!! Thank you for choosing to share it with me! We love squirrels so much in my family! Thank you for the book recommendations and introducing me to a new artist! Hope to see you again in the next months!

26 @sarahaeyo sent a funny card from The Snooty Bookshop! Love it! My personal version of this dilemma: Shouldn’t you be cleaning the house while the kids sleep? And there I am outside with postcards instead! Hope your vacation was amazing! Visiting Powell’s and the Oregon Coast are on my bucket list Thank you!!

28 @TwoDoggies sent a beautiful view from Netherlands! Thank you for sharing a little bit of your trip with me! I didn’t realize people live inside the windmills!!

30 @RockyRoadTrip sent an awesome linen summer scene!!! Ahhhhh this card is awesome, it captures so well the postcard glory days I am NOT ready for Fall! Especially since I have to go back to work after maternity leave Thank you soo much!!

[cawindt]

Updated!

[cawindt]

Don’t worry at this point. Looking through, only 9 of your cards have not been reported yet. A few of those people haven’t updated their received cards in a while. Plus, cross-border mail can take a while.

[TwoDoggies]

@beatriceh Please, write details. I like details.

[sarahaeyo]

26 received: #1, 6, 7, 11, 18

1 @cawindt - craig, hope you enjoyed your time in greece! thank you for this view card of sounio - it is gorgeous (awesome stamps too)! i can almost hear the water below and feel the sea breeze while i look at the photo haha - i am extremely jealous!

6 @mikeyz1 - mike, thank you for the cool stamps and for sharing this card of diego rivera and frida kahlo in front on rivera’s “detroit industry” mural - it is wonderful and haunting. there is something so intimate and personal about the way this was photographed - like walking in on a private moment between the two

7 @mere5oh - meredith sends a wonderful architectural watercolour sketch by frank llyod wright - thank you so much! sounds like a busy day haha but i am glad that you ended it on a note that you enjoyed! agreed - i’ve always found that talking with an outside party such as a therapist helped me zoom out and focus on the the big picture, making it easier to make decisions and understand other perspectives!

11 @volvomom - kristin, thank you for the may-britt moser from the women in science box! it was so fascinating to read more about her discovery of and worth with grid cells, a type a neuron! looking forward to seeing you as well~ i am so excited as this will be my second ever meetup!

18 @LaurenceB - laurence, i am enjoying the summery space vibes of this postcard (and matching apollo 11 stamp!) alot haha, thank you so much - anja’s illustrations are always so cute and whimsical! awww omg i am so happy to hear that you really enjoy your first vacation as a family

[ellistrations]

#19 received

#11 @volvomom - thank you! This counts for both animals and bubbles! I had a great summer, time really flew by, but I really can’t complain. Finally glad the weather has cooled a bit.

[emotis]

#10 reporting this weekend’s arrivals:

#7 @mere5oh I have seen this cat poster a zillion times, and never knew who did it. Postcrossing to the rescue again!
#9 @ljbbauer Motel rooms of America. There is so much truth to these pictures. And omg… the finale of Saul . LOVED it!
#21 @mdmsamm So nice to meet you! And I love your art and your message. The Supreme Court is a headache these days… I’m supposed to teach a Con Law seminar in the spring. Ummm… no thanks. Where to even begin.

Thanks all for the wonderful cards!!!

ALL SENT
To Receive: * 20, 23

[cawindt]

September is open!

[RR] North American September 2022 Round Robin - The Labouring Over Postcards Edition - Now Open!

Welcome to the September 2022 North American Round Robin! As always, all in North America are welcomed to join, but the round robin is limited to the first 30 people who sign up, including myself. If you have not participated in the past, please be sure to send me your address when you sign up. THE RULES: Sign up between now and August 30 by posting in this thread. Note: This round robin has been filling up within 18 hours the past few months. New participants must send me their addresses be…

[beatriceh]

#27 beatriceh reporting

#1 @cawindt Thank you for the Greece card. It looks beautiful! I was supposed to go there in 2011, but the universe was against me. Perhaps I’ll expand on that in my next card…And great stamps!

#29 @melvnoble Wow, what a fascinating museum. So many skulls. I like it! And I really like the ice cream sticker. Thanks!

#18 @LaurenceB Another great card! For some reason, this makes me think of the recent Salman Rushdie incident. Great washi tape. Thanks!

#12 @Yarn-Lady This does look like a cool bookstore. Combining a bookstore and art gallery is a great idea. I remember wanting to work at a bookstore in high school. A few of my fellow English majors in college got to work at the strand, which is pretty nice. I hear you have to pass a literary test.

Thanks everyone!

[mere5oh]

#7

rec:
#2 @CrimsonKing Thank you for the great illustration of a woman submerged in water, except for her face. I do enjoy a bath, but not in our tub. It’s old, like cast iron old, and shallow. One of these days, though, I will have a nice deep tub.

#21 @mdmsamm A picture of a doll she rescued! Thank you! I think what you do is great as well. This one looks like Raggedy Ann. I used to love that doll growing up, so I thank you for sending this one to me!

To Rec: 1.9.20.23

[YOIYUMTEWA]

#17 received another cool card

#11 @volvomom a postcard that highlights some of the past generic lettered stamps (A-H). I remember those stamps, and some of them were pretty boring. You said you were expecting rain as you were writing cards…We are awaiting a thunderstorm to drop some rain here right now. It’s noisy outside, but not raining yet.

[uconn]

#22 uconn

#1 @cawindt great Parthenon, Athens card. Great old stamps too

#11 @volvomom fun Halloween theme card. I remember one costume dressing as an old man with a rubber mask and using my grandfather’s pants and hat

#20 @Triol very cool art, thanks

[jenhart]

#4 @jenhart reporting:

#1 @cawindt : beautiful Greek card. I rarely like the big cities best either. I like small towns and “boring” countryside with scattered homes.

#2 @CrimsonKing : Lantern Press Card of Cable Mill in the Smoky Mtns. I only live about 2 1/2 hours from there and yet had no cards from the mill (much less a great LP) - in fact I have ever only seen it once. Thank you!!

#3 @Cruzin : Nouvelles Pasta card. I have not received a Nouvelles card in years - what a treat! I am ashamed to admit I did not try to better myself in 2020 or learn to cook. I read a lot

#6 @mikeyz1 : multiview of the Luberon in Provence.I love it! We were there years ago too. One of my favorite memories of all time is eating lunch from a bakery on a bench on the grounds of the church in Bonnieux at the top of the hill

Thank you!

[jacieslar]

#7 @mere5oh I love this postcard. The buildings look deserted and I can almost hear the stillness. I hope you have a great experience with your two foreign exchange students I think you’ll have a lot of fun with four teenagers in the house!

#11 @volvomom Great postcard showing the Church Street Marketplace in Burlington, VT. Thanks! It looks like a wonderful place to shop. I’d love to visit New England in the Fall sometime.

#27 @beatriceh Thank you for the beautiful Iris card. I would never think to look in a garden shop for postcards! Iris do really well here and also grow wild in the mountains. There is an Iris farm in Hondo, NM that has over 400 varieties of bearded iris for sale.

#29 @melvnoble Thank you for the card from the Philadelphia Mint. I’ll bet the mosaics are even more beautiful in person. We were just talking about trying to get a reservation to tour the Denver Mint this Fall.

#30 @RockyRoadTrip I really like this postcard showing a satellite view of Cape Cod and the islands. The terrain looks very interesting. Provincetown sounds a lot like Key West with a New England flair.

[RockyRoadTrip]

AUGUST 2022 NARR

Report 2 from: Rocky Road Trip #30

More August scorchers…

#03 @Cruzin: sent a card from artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz who’s known for exploring the ten sions that exist around traditional religion, gender, and third-culture identit ies in modern society. This one, labeled They Said He Was a Softie, shows a business man with a large, throw pillow for a head. Exposes the micro-aggressions hidden within our everyday language. And shame on your dad! Thanks!

#04 @JenHart: sent a wonderfully detailed illustrated guide to the iconic landmarks found in and around Minnesota’s twin cities. Everything from Target Field and Mill City Museum (a personal fav) to The Witches Hat water tower. Good luck getting back there! (Or better yet, blow them off and go on a cruise in an accessible cabin!) Thanks!

#05 @CarolReader: sent a glorious linen card showing tourists, all looking at the camera, enjoying a sip at the St. Petersburg Fountain of Youth. I always thought the “real” Ponce De Leon Fountain of Youth was located in St. Augustine. But it would seem they are ALL man-drilled tourist traps! Yes, you’re right, why do they show a toddler at this Fountain of Youth? It’s like they say: “Youth is wasted on the young!” Thanks!

#06 @MikeyZ1: sent the classic Holiday Inn sign (so much classier that today’s Holiday Inn Express splash logo). Features that roadside monstrosity “the great sign” which the company got rid of since they were expensive and difficult to maintain, and the ill-conceived, lantern bearing, John Holiday, allegedly an early American hotel manager known for his outstanding warmth and hospitality. You’re right, this was a highway beacon. Thanks!

#10 @Emotis: sent a hilarious, vintage, Belgium bargain-bin find: a shot of the popular Blankenberge seaside resort with a giant bathing beauty “photoshopped” in among the bathers. So funny. Thanks!

#13 @Ladybug513: also sent an interesting Holiday Inn motel card… one that doesn’t feature an exterior shot with the “great sign” but, rather, an interior shot of their dark, wood-paneled dining room and outdoor pool. Yes, the best part of a remodeling is that you have to evacuate the house for the floor refinishing. Enjoy and thanks!

#21 @mdmsamm : It’s interesting, I was just thinking about powers and telephone lines and how we ever allowed such a visual abomination upon our landscape – because we were blinded by the convenience of powered lights and phone communication. Ha, we had a town that went underwater for a reservoir. Now they’ve built an Indian casino on it after draining! Anyway, yes, all this sparked by a shot of Norman Rockwell’s classic The Lineman. Thanks!

You can view these August choices here on my Flickr account.

And all my August cards are mailed out

Rocky Road Trip #30

[cawindt]

Updated again