Postcard: Wonderfulness

This one was very quick!  We were in Sacramento last week--and got our first Sacramento postcard back this week!  

I spent the week exploring solo, mostly (my husband was on business and busy during the day)--but I did have the chance to meet up with a friend I hadn't seen since 2014.  That 2014 meeting was our first, after meeting through the internet and the practice of mail art.  So it seemed wonderfully fitting that among the things we decided to do was to place the handmade cards I'd been creating in the evenings.  (We also went to the Crocker art museum, where I was delighted to find an Art-O-Mat!  After first hearing of them about 15 years ago, I was so excited to actually see one, to put my tokens in one of those refurbished 1970s cigarette machines and go home with tiny little pieces of art!)

This is the first Sacramento card that made it back; there are still 14 hidden somewhere in the library near Old Sac.

What tickled us about this card is that the finder added to the artwork on the front of the card, putting little hearts in each corner and extending the flourishes on the lettering with small dots!  Hm...maybe we should leave space on the front of some of our cards for artwork from the finders!

The finder wrote:
I found this great post card @ the down town Sacramento library.  My little girls go to a tweener book club there the last Thurs. of every month.  Their book selection this month was called Real Friends.  It's a graphic novel that helps tweeners navagate friendships.  Cheers!  Rebecca McDaniel

Boy...I remember those tween years and how fraught friendship was. I watched my own kids (well, four so far, two to go) go through it too, and most of them faced some struggles.  I looked up this book and now I need to see a copy in real life.  Graphic novels are cool--and this one is a memoir, which is even more intriguing. 

Thanks, Rebecca, for the return of our postcard and the book note!

Summer left our part of the world overnight.  Typically there's a good two weeks in which we run the air conditioning during the day and the heater at night and we just try not to think about the cost of cooling and then heating our house every 24 hours.  But this year, the temperatures dropped from the 90s to the 60s between a Monday and a Tuesday.

So when my husband and I visited Sacramento last week, we flew out on a chilly gray morning and arrived into a balmy, sunny midday.  While we were there, a postcard arrived back home with memories of our summer vacation and a warm message from the little family who had discovered it.

The finders wrote:
Our little family of 4 sat down as a family to read library books before bed.  Tonight we chose a "feel good" book called Thanks & Giving.  We opened the book & this card fell into our laps! Thanks for the smiles, joy, & excitement you contributed to our family tonight! 
The Stoddard family, Warrenton, Oregon 9/22/17

Stoddard family, thanks for sending it back!  We loved envisioning the scene you described.  The twins are 8 and they wondered how old your children are.  We also wondered if you might know the Moss family, whom we visited while on vacation! 

So much wonderful wondering! :)