Postcards in the Coronavirus Days - Part V

Postcard to KatieK on 8/20/2020 from Tom Hardy where Tom inserts himself into all the airplanes at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

 

This particular postcard was so very many postcards...

So many...

Bit of duplication there with the photos, but I wanted to catch them all...

Two left!!!  It was difficult to think of things to say for every plane.

Aw....taking a Koala back to Australia that was healing up in the US. 

To Aunt Sue on 8/18/2020: Clock Tower, Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge

On 8/18/2020 to Katie prior to the airplanes postcard.  From Tom Hardy pontificating on what a manly eruption it seems to be.

Postcards in the Coronavirus Days - Part IV

Sent to the Boss on 8/11: Geocaching Whitehouse. 

Sent to AnneT on 8/11: House of the Seven Gables

Sent to ChristineC on 8/11/2020: Arizona Desert in Bloom

Postcards in the Coronavirus Days - Part III

 To Joe: Headwaters of the Mississippi at Lake Itasca.

To Jessica and Drew.  This was a gift from Dan when he was in Hawaii.

To JonZ.  Really old hipsters.

To Kyle: Cathedral Spires, Needles Drive, Black Hills, SD.  Sung to the tune of The Beatles Rocky Raccoon.

To Ming: Mount Rushmore.  Sans posers.

To Vonda: Tower Soudan Mines in Northern Minnesota.

To ChristyF:  Walnut  Canyon National Monument.  Sinagua ruins.  The Boss is hiding in the darkness.

To JulieL: Wupatki Ruins at Wupatki National Monument.  Trimmed that bit of tape off.  It's holding a picture of her house to the card as it sold back in 1984.

To KatieK: from Tom Hardy.  He's taking a barrel over the falls to see her, but he's afraid he lose his shirt and be all wet.

To JanineL: reminder to give Larry a cognitive test because he keeps losing at Carcassonne.

To Jestine (and Erik): Erik mowing Buckingham Palace grounds shirtless.

Sandy (and Mark): The Knife Ridge, Mount Katahdin, Baxter State Park, Maine.

To Dele: tell me what kinds of t-shirts you like so I can leave them in the pot at the end of the rainbow.  Badlands, SD.

Postcards in the Coronavirus Days - Part II

Sent to Larry: Giles Corey being crushed to death with rocks in Salem.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey

Sent to Kevin: Oliver Cromwell, supreme wanker for a brief period.  Scourge of Ireland.  Probably killed some relative of mine.

Jessica: Hosue of the 7 Gables, hidden staircase.

A card I literally wrote for Ben in 1990.  Cathedral built by Christopher Wren.

Sent to Kyle: pentagram from Salem, MA.  But, more appropriately ESTEBAN! (from Evilspeak)

Sent to Dave (Mr. Putty): Henvry VII because he sort of looks like him.

Sent to Ming: Throne, cause mine is nicer than his. (Westminster Abbey, Stone of Scone)

Sent to Marnie: Somewhere in Scandanavian a man is leaping for some reason.

Sent to PatF: Flags/Nights from my visit to the UK in 1990.

Sent to Soon: Old Plank Road in Yuma, AZ.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Plank_Road.  Soon has snakes under his deck, just like this road.

Sent to Kristine: Train from the MN Iron Range.

 

Postcards in the Coronavirus Days - Part I

During the Coronavirus era of work from home, I've started sending folks postcards.  Partially because:

• people like to get handwritten items, even if they don't initially think they will,
• I have a lot of stamps and no way to use them
• the post office needs money and I need to use the stamps I have so I can buy more stamps
• I bought a lot of Last Week Tonight stamps, and I need to use them because they're funny,
• I have weird things to say to people I've known for a long time
• there were a bunch of old postcards in several boxes from my childhood/teen years my folks left me.  On the order of 100 or so.  I don't want to keep them.  They should be someone else's problem.

Sent to Garm and Maggie: This is Elizabeth, married to Henry VII, and the female side of ending the War of the Roses.  I bought this when I was in London in like 1991.  Probably at the National Portrait Museum.

Sent to Greg J: Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife that was married to his brother Arthur (who died).  Probably also from the National Portrait Museum in 1991.

Sent to Julie L: the Wren Library at Cambridge, from a visit to Cambridge in 1991 (you know, it might have been 1990.  It was a long time ago).  I loved that campus.  One of my FOMOs was not going to school in Wales/UK when I had the chance and getting married instead.  Life works out, but I loved my visits to England.

Sent to Katie K: from a trip to Maine when I was in High School..  Probably to visit colleges with my family (I remember reading Red Storm Rising, so that was 1986..dang, that was only his second book).  I sent this letter from Tom Hardy (my apologies for the impersonation Tom, but it was for a good cause) informing Katie that because of CV I was jogging cross country to meet up with her.  Dirigo!