Hello.
We're back.
Maybe not consistently. Life changes. We don't have the chances for travel we used to, and the little girl who started it all grew up and became a Marine and moved far away and got married.
But there are the little boys. Who aren't little any more, really--they're both taller than me now and about to go on the adventure of high school. But they wanted to make postcards for our upcoming vacation, so we did...and I thought maybe it was time to put some that we've received up here.
This one returned to us in 2021, when we were still kind of pandemicky feeling, though mail doesn't worry us. I wish I were more organized and got all of them up here when they arrived, so that the person who sent each one back would have a better chance of seeing it. Paul, the rescuer of Crab and Shadow, has probably forgotten this page exists, which is a shame, because he wrote us a very cool note on the back. Here's the card:
Well, I won't be crabby about this, but this nifty, artistic card only traveled a few miles prior to being sadly stuffed in a mailbox in cosmopolitan Seal Rock, OR. I work as a volunteer reshelving books in the Waldport, OR library and discovered the card nestled in the pages of Eric Carle's "Book of Many Things." Touching, because he died a few days after I "rescued" it two years after it started its journey. USPS will complete its appointed round in a few days. It was fun having it around before its return journey ^so far from the sea. A well crafted card and a fun experience.
Paul, another library fan
We love Paul's note and we really hope something brings him here again so he can see that the card did return to us!
