#8 Shesa-Renegade checking in with a LOT of wonderful cards. It’s 1/4 of the way through the academic semester, so it’s been crazy busy with grading.
SO. MUCH. GRADING.
#2 @CrimsonKing sends a Valentine’s card with hearts and roses. I am heading out with some of my gal pals for dinner and a movie. We are going to see the 25th anniversary of the movie Titanic tonight!
#3 @Cruzin sends a handmade card! You are really so good at these cards, Lori! The wax seals made it on both the envelope and the card inside.
#5 @carolreader sends a card of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera for my passion them. Hubba hubba!! I have not read The Lacuna, but it is now on my Goodreads list!
#6 @mikeyz1 sends a card of a book reader standing on the base of a light post for my passion theme. This is such a great image! I am so excited to hear that you are working on a new paper. I just submitted one before Christmas to the Journal of Geoscience Education and am working on another one right now for Palaios that I expect to finish this summer. A colleague in Europe is working on some SEM images of the fossils. I’m pushing myself to write more - full professor is only a couple of years away.
#7 @CStar9 sends a fun tea collage postcard that she made! I love how you have celebrated the Earth and those that love it. I went last night to a talk at the Clinton Library that was given by Dr. Douglas Brinkley. He has put out a new book about the environmental movement of the 1960s called Silent Spring Revolution. Rachel Carson is a hero of mine and I simply couldn’t miss this talk.
#10 @emotis sends a fun facts card about sloths! Moths in their fur…icky…but they are so darn adorable!
#11 @Hazygirl sends a tropical beach scene card.$10.99 for a dozen eggs? faint Do you have a Trader Joe’s nearby? They are $2.99 a dozen there.
#13 @ladybug513 sends a Norweigian traditional dress card of bridal dresses. Those crowns look heavy! What a great tradition though.
#14 @dnrhott sends a wonderful Brazilian plume flower illustration. I can tell you that anything in education is hard, but it is so worth it. Thank you for being a helper! We need awesome people like you.
#16 @jacieslar sends a card of the National Park of American Samoa. Gorgeous! I would visit there for sure. You are right about travel. I just booked another cruise for the end of my academic semester. I can’t wait!
#17 @YOIYUMTEWA sends a Women in Science card of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space! I would absolutely go to the moon. I’m already packed!
#18 @LaurenceB sends an adorable illustrated sloth!!! Seeing the sloths was one of the highlights of my vacation. There needs to be more sloth postcards in my life!
#19 @ellistrations Special shout out here because she has sent me a fun envelope of blank postcards! This is a fun way that you have challenged yourself. How many have you had to send out so far? I just bought 15 new postcards yesterday. My favorite local spot appears to be getting rid of their local postcards. i don’t know where I will get some for the town I live in.
#21 @Sunshein sends a handmade Valentine card! I love it!! Arizona is a state that I haven’t explored much. I really need to visit and spend a couple of weeks. The problem is that I am essentially forced to travel in the summer because I teach, and Arizona is blistering hot during the summer. Maybe I need to think about May instead.
#22 @uconn sends a recipe card for seafood gumbo! I really need to try this recipe. It sounds delicious and I don’t think that I have ever had gumbo.
#23 @suatelier sends a 75% off chocolate day card for my passion theme! February 15th is tomorrow! See you at the store!!
#26 @sarahaeyo sends a sweet card “May all your days be filled with joy.” You wrote that it was chilly where you were and that you were snuggled under a blanket. I was just thinking that I needed to get under a blanket, too. It is cold and rainy here tonight. I am going to the movies soon and I am taking a small throw with me because I get chilly in the theaters.
#28 @TwoDoggies sends a funny card about priests playing tennis for my passion theme! This is great!! I think my challenges are challenging because there are so many different interpretations, but that is what makes it so fun for me is seeing just how everyone interprets the same thing.
Received: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 26, 28
Excited for: 4, 9, 15, 20, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30
Bacon is delicious and would be tickled to receive it as a gift, haha! We’re having steak tonight, yum!
The more I buy, the tougher it will be to give up these cards, but it’s a nice challenge for myself. Hold me accountable and makes others happy at the same time. Who knows, there may be another headed your waybin the future.
It also seems like a lot of work. On the stove for 40 minutes then let sit overnight to cool and strain all the bits out. I’d rather have something ready-made with no work at all! 
I hate being cold in the house … but I am also very cheap 
I didn’t care who won the Superbowl, but I watched it all
