[RR] North American October 2021 Round Robin - The Spooktacular Card Edition - Closed!

[cawindt]

Two more cards arrived in today’s mail! Thank you to:

#3 @Cruzin for the hilarious QE2 card. I love the cat sticker! I hope you had a good time at your gathering. I’m used to gatherings of around 30, as my largest class at school is 31 students.

#16 @CrimsonKing for the awesome Diego Rivera card. I love this mural and always spend time studying it when I visit the DIA. Today I went to the farmers’ market and picked up a half bushel of apples, apple cider, cider donuts and caramel apples. I love this time of the year as well!

[KeKet]

#27 checking in. A few new cards today Yay!!

#11 @PostAddy love the dancing skeleton. He probably has better moves than me.

#26 @alcott1 thank you for the card from the botanical garden. I want to visit as many as I can. The one in Atlanta is amazing.

#13 @ladybug513 i love beaches too unfortunately Oklahoma doesn’t have any but luckily I can travel to visit them. Fall is my favorite time of year too.

#16 @CrimsonKing love that we bought the same set of cards lol. I am doing great today! Awesome day fall of cool weather and college football.

Thank you everyone.

[scoutingbear]

#18 with new cards today!

#3 @Cruzin sends an autumn poem. This goes with my October theme.

#4 @jenhart sends an everything pumpkin spice card! Your weekend drives sound like the kind of thing I would like to do!

#14 @dnrhott sends me the state of Maryland thanks! I don’t have this one yet

[treeclimber]

#7 checking in with lots of wonderful cards!

#2 @Sunshein - hollyhocks - I started as a card maker and then moved into scrapbooking. I like using an ATG (adhesive transfer gun). I think it’s by Scotch. Some people find them to be too bulky. It’s about the size of a pricing gun that I used back in the day when price stickers were on everything. One of my friends prefers the much smaller Tombow Mono Adhesive dispensers. They’re good too. I found the ATG to be more cost effective and the size didn’t bother me. Have fun with your new hobby!

#3 @Cruzin - Louisa May Alcott quote - Sounds like you should definitely raise your book goal. I have a stack of books waiting for me (too many to count). I think I’ve finished 3 this year. One was almost 600 pages. I read a lot when I was on furlough but hardly at all once I went back to working full time.

#4 @jenhart - cute trick or treat card - It does seem weird to were shorts to see the fall colors of the leaves on the parkway. I think you should just go for it. I once has a snowball fight in July at Yosemite in shorts and sandals with my brother and sister… It seemed very wrong but is one of my favorite memories.

#5 @carolreader - Neil Gaiman excerpt - I may have to check out his work. I’m not a horror fan though. But this one sounds promising. I’ve seen most of the HP movies and enjoyed them but did not care for the spiders. Love the turkey stamp!

#8 @Shesa-Renegade - Monster Inc with a ‘Energy Action Month’ postmark. Love the fun rubber stamps you’ve been using!

#11 @PostAddy - a witch for halloween and fun black cat washi. I’m happy to have the cooler weather for walking.

#13 @ladybug513 - Piette’s House at Montfoucault by Camille Pissarro - I love autumn weather. We’re going to change out lighting fixtures in the kitchen and paint starting this weekend.

#15 @NittanyLionRI - a cute doggie! When I was growing up, we had a collie shepherd. He loved to play soccer with my dad.

#16 @CrimsonKing - a beautiful butterfly card and stickers - I am so ready for sweater weather.

#17 @YOIYUMTEWA - Oregon Shakespearean Festival - interesting question. In the last few years, I’ve seen homes being built with trees along the road right under electric wires. They’ must know the trees will grow…

#18 @scoutingbear - Ornamental Features by FLW - what a cute monster stamp! I first saw FLWs work when I was in college, studying design. I visited Fallingwater in Pennsylvania. I’d love to visit Chicago and see more of his work. It’s on my list…

#19 @ellistrations - an urban sketch by Carlos Marcelo Herrera - I love this series of cards. I love getting outside and drawing. I’ve been enjoying walking with our cooler temps. Glad your new job is going well.

#21 @Beachyblonde - World Postcard Day from Tennessee - I didn’t know the state fruit of Tennessee was a tomato. I had to look up NC - it’s Scuppernong grapes. How did I not know this?

#22 @uconn - an urban sketch by Alex Motyl - how is being back in the office? Our office delayed bringing everyone back until January. However, I am now permanent work from home. I’ve been into the office only twice this year. I feel like I get more done but I miss seeing everyone.

#24 @roxy - World Postcard Day - funny, I didn’t write any on Oct 1st but I sent a bunch!

#23 @normajean - cool spotlight card of bees (black and white card with the bees in color) - so glad you are enjoying your butterfly garden. We saw the eastern black swallowtails in our yard for the first time a few years ago when we planted red tithonia (mexican sunflowers) - they loved them! so did the humming birds and finches.

#26 @alcott1 - cape hatteras lighthouse - hope you get to go there, it’s a beautiful area. I’ve been dreaming up all kinds of trips too. Looking forward to traveling again for more than a day or weekend trip.

#27 @KeKet - a beautiful print by Tsuchiya Koitsu - Wiki doesn’t have a lot of info about him, born in 1870 and studied under Kobayashi Kiyochika, from whom he learned dramatic light effects.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

[PostAddy]

#11 received:

#3 @Cruzin sent beetle specimens. I bet that filet was delicious! Thanks, Lori!

#14 @dnrhott sent a Utah state card. Hilarious to me that the state bird is the gull. I guess they’re pretty? But such annoying birds

#19 @ellistrations sent Disney Orlando card. The drivers aren’t the only crazy thing in Florida! thank you, Barbara.

#23 @normajean sent a wonderful mermaid card. I’m a sucker for a good pun! Thank you, Norma Jean!

#25 @jocrafts sent Waikiki night life. I was born in Hawaii and love to receive cards from there. Too bad there’s no postmark! I laughed that your wrote your trip was a month but then crossed out to correct to a week. Wouldn’t a month long vacation be so nice!? Thanks, Jo.

[YOIYUMTEWA]

#17 received cool card from

#27 @KeKet “Moon Nymph” by Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896). He was a Spanish painter who specialized in female nudes and mythological, orientalist and fantasy settings

[CrimsonKing]

#16 received from:

#3 @Cruzin a Ryden postcard, love it! This is my first Ryden card, hehe. Thank you very much Lori, I appreciate it. I hope you are well also!

#11 @PostAddy a Halloween card of a girl in a red Devil suit, so cute! I don’t have IG, but just might have to sign up to look at the contest for the Halloween cards. Thank you for this card!

#13 @ladybug513 a Victorian Halloween card, I love Victorian style cards, they seem so elegant and soft. Ohh, that is a great idea for candy dishes at the end of the driveway on a table. Candy distancing! Thank you for the card.

#23 @normajean a street chalk art card. I adore these cards! Thank you for sending it to me. Ahh, Louisiana full of voodoo, history, awesome food and my birth place. I haven’t been back there since October 31, 2004. Man, what a crazy night Bourbon St. was, wow!! LOL.

[teddypostcrossing]

#12 @teddypostcrossing:

Thank you to #14~@dnrhott for the One Man Band Pixar film image postcard. I love shorts! The animation in this one is so creative! I love historical romances, too-especially westerns! Enjoy your book! We have a nice sunny day, yet the wind is blowing and the leaves are flying!

[uconn]

#22 uconn

#3 @Cruzin great Day of the Dead card

#7 @treeclimber nice Ferris wheel shot. In person at the office is weird as the parking lot is still over half empty. Every few weeks more are invited back

[NittanyLionRI]

#15 NittanyLionRI -

#3 @Cruzin sent a Harry Potter card from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter with a matching stamp. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a handheld printer. How cool is that?

#22 @uconn sent a Fifty-Nine Parks Arches card. I visited this park back in 2018 as part of our Utah Mighty Five trip. Great hiking there and the surrounding area of Moab. Hope you enjoy your time off, whatever you decide to do (or not do ).

Thank you both!

[mere5oh]

#9

All of my cards are addressed, stamped, and will be postmarked and mailed Tuesday, as the post office is closed on Monday!

[ellistrations]

#19 ellistrations received:

#3 @Cruzin - rocking chair, thank you! Thin but it made it safely! I often wonder of thinner cards do better in the machines. First rocking chair received since I’ve made it a challenge!

#27 @KeKet - Black Cat, thank you! I love Wrath as a name for a cat, that’s so perfect. Hope you have a wonderful weekend! Please give your fur babies an extra hug for me.

[RockyRoadTrip]

October 2021 NARR Report #1

First batch of cards to report.

#02 @SunShein : sent a shot of the iconic, but now overrun by tourists, “standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona” statue “attraction”. It sounds like the rest of your road trip on Route 66 was a little less hectic. Yes, I worry about the heritage of Route 66. Will the next generations still embrace it? My guess is no. The nostalgia for it will die off. Sadly. Thanks!

#05 @CarolReader: sent a terrific shot of four Goodyear blimps sailing over the skies of Akron, Ohio, a rare time that all four lighter-than-air crafts have flown together. This was a celebration of the newest dirigible, The Spirit of America, following its christening and official welcome to the fleet. Great card. Who doesn’t like blimps? Thanks!

#07 @TreeClimber: sent a new addition to my Appalachian Trail collection, a vintage scenic vista shot from Wildcat Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I follow several AT vloggers on YouTube and have hiked a stretch that cuts through New York. It’s nice to get a card from the northern section of the trail, as most cards I have feature views from below the Mason-Dixon line. Thanks!

#08 @Shesa-Renegade: sent a shot of the world’s largest crucifix from the Catholic Shrine in Indian River, Michigan. Probably more impressive than the 55-foot high redwood structure is the bronze corpus of Christ hanging on the cross. It alone weighs 7-tons, according to the card. Incredible the effort that goes into some things. Who dreamt this project up? “Don’t Go On Me The Ghost” rubber stamp = LOL! Thanks!

#13 @Ladybug513: Every year I can depend on Ladybug sending a fun Halloween card! This one shows a cherub-like devil climbing out of a jack o’lantern… out for a night of mischief one presumes! And a silly Halloween joke and vivid witch sticker, too. Sorry, I should have alerted you to the Hudson Valley meetup. I wasn’t sure I was going to attend until the night before, when I didn’t end up being called for Southern District of NY jury duty, thank goodness! Thanks and Happy Indigenous Autumn Squash Day!

#15 @NittanyLionRI: sent a pretty mountain stream scene from the Beartooth Mountains in Montana. Yes, autumn colors are running late in the Northeast. We have friends from Florida coming up because they miss the change of seasons and want to come up to see foliage, rolling hills, and farm lands. Yeah, about the only “mountains” you have in RI is the cliff house that Swift girl lives in! Thanks!

#16 @CrimsonKing: sent a Halloween card featuring the ominous grim reaper (complete with scythe!) standing before the full harvest moon. And a gentle reminder not to get too scared this spooky season. We’ve had two young families move into the neighborhood over the last year, so maybe, just maybe, we’ll get some trick-or-treaters this year… instead of eating all the leftovers! Thanks!

#17 @Yoiyumtewa: sent a vintage shot of the creepy Dutch Inn in Collinsville, VA. The windmill cropped to the top of the motel reminds me of the one the villagers set on fire in the 1931 film version of Frankenstein, which I just watched last night. The Inn still exists today, and has had a makeover (if not a total reconstruction) as a Quality Inn property, but they did replicate the windmill sails that now stick out from the fresco façade. Thanks for this classic motel view!

#19 @Ellistrations: sent a humorous addition to my Bigfoot collection, showing the big guy crossing a log in the woods, and, uncharacteristically, holding a flower. The softer, gentler side of the smelly monster! Halloween-themed stickers and washi tape on the back. Thanks!

#23 @NormaJean: sent an interesting view of the tonearm of a record player with an antique shell housing for the cartridge and needle. It’s interesting that vinyl has made such a resurgence over compact disc audio! When does a technology ever “swing backwards?” We’re the middle of decluttering, but I’m going to unbox my record collection from the 70s and 80s and rediscover some of its lots gems. Thanks! And thanks for the Oscar W. quote!

#24 @Roxy: sent the official 2021 Postcrossing World Postcard Day card. I need to become more strategic with this day moving forward, like you were! And who has a mother-in-law that has a bridge named after her, not to mention a ceremony to accompany the honor!? Deets please! Thanks!

You can view all these incoming October cards HERE…

Slowly getting my cards out this month. Most can expect them to arrive after the 15th.

Rocky Road Trip #30

[normajean]

#23 Reporting a very nice batch!

#3 @cruzin A beautiful textured card of Catalina Island in the moonlight. Field trips with 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders were terrifying for me, as even playground duty had my imaginations shooting to “worst case scenario” of all the dangers lurking to hurt “my kids.” Yet, with my own, I was more relaxed, loving to play in the rain storms with them without ever thinking of lightning or germs/bacteria or slipping in the mud. I cannot imagine escorting other people’s children to an island!

#11 @PostAddy Oh! How perfect! Yes, me, me, me! A witch sitting under a tree reading in the light of the full moon surrounded by a cat and kittens playing. My mother always told me “the witches brought me” because of my Halloween birthdate…at least, I’m pretty sure that’s why she said that…;). I have been feeding a feral black female for almost 2 years (hisses every time I open the back door to feed her). Of course, I’m now also feeding her 4 beautiful black kittens who are now as big as she is. I’m becoming attached to them, and I know I’m just a hair’s width away from becoming a crazy cat lady.

#13 @ladybug513 Orient Point Lighthouse, Long Island, under an awesome full moon. I miss my cathedral ceiling windows where I could see the moon every night. What a beautiful pairing! Thank you for the beautiful poem by T.E. Hulme; makes me smile. I Thank you so much.

#19 @ellistrations Herrmann Co.'s Beautiful Illusion, Maid of the Moon is beautiful, and yes, peaceful. The moon’s face has just the right touch of whimsy. I say, since you’re an October baby, start celebrating your birthday on Halloween! Mine are still exciting every year with all the decorations, celebrations and gatherings. I’m not a narcissist (sure sign of one? ) but I feel like the hoopla is for me, just as when I was young.

#24 @roxy I absolutely love the Official World Postcard Day 2021 postcard. Your stamps and stickers are awesome, also. That’s it, like several others in this group, I am definitely going to be ordering the official WPD 2022.

#27 @KeKet Luis Ricardo Falero’s beautiful artwork of a lovely woman dancing (?) in the light of the beautiful moon. My husband, who could do this any hour of the day or night, encourages me to release my inhibitions and experience this level of freedom (opposites attract). One day I shall, and with my luck, Google Earth will be recording the momentous occasion.

[cawindt]

All of my cards were ready to go out in tomorrow’s mail…until I realized that there is no mail tomorrow. So mine will be on their way on Tuesday.

[jocrafts]

A month long vacation in Hawaii would be amazing!! I wish!

[cawindt]

Updated

[ellistrations]

You were born in Hawaii?! Me too!!! Small world!

[PostAddy]

At tripler army hospital! The pink one!

[mere5oh]

Hey everyone! Craig gave me permission to post about this here:

Come join the NA Secret Christmas RR! It’s similar to the International one, but more affordable. To join, you send me a direct message, but because of that, it falls to the bottom of the topics list. So, come join us for some Christmas magic and fun!