Dad & me - early 1960s

So True!

Apples so red hang overhead

and nuts, ripe-brown, come showering down

in the bountiful days of September!

Mary Howitt

A belated graduation wish

This belated graduation card sent by a family friend definitely has a more autumn feel to it rather than the usual spring/summer theme of most graduation cards.  It's a very pretty scene!

 

Dad - early 1960s

Scalloped Potatoes

Slow and steady does the trick ...

This is a get well card sent to me in the early 1970s by my math teacher at the time.  I hated math but I still love turtles ... especially psychedelic ones!!  

 

What is your pop star name? Mine is Zoe Ace!

Your Pop Star Name Is Zoe Ace

You're Gonna Be a Star!

What's Your Pop Star Name?

Blogthings: A Fine Line Between Insight and Stupidity

United Kingdom, World Showcase

I think my mother brought this postcard back from a visit to Epcot Center in the early 1980s.  Looks like fun!

 

For you, daughter on your birthday

This very pretty and very cheerful birthday card was sent to me in 1981 by my parents.  I would have been in summer session in college and if I were lucky, the card would have had cash enclosed with it!!  

 

Dad - early 1960s

I enjoyed seeing this old snapshot not just because my father is in it but it's been fun to take a look at the kitchen of my childhood again!  I see cookies cooling on the baking sheet on the oven top, the electric frying pan that my mother used to cook in back then ... I wonder how many of those are still around?  She used to bake swiss steak in it quite often ... I can almost smell and taste the steak bubbling in the tomato sauce.  Yum!  The electric frying pan is empty in the picture and I'm not sure if my father is preparing some ingredient for it or what.  

 

Peanut Butter-Date Cookies

For a sweet girl at graduation

This high school graduation card was sent by an uncle & aunt that live in Virginia Beach.  They note inside "Hope to see you this summer."  ... You bet!  This is the 3rd graduation card I've noticed since putting the blog together that has daisies on it.  

 

So True!

A road like brown ribbon, a sky that is blue,

A forest of green, with the sky peeping through, 

Asters, deep purple, a grasshopper's call, 

Today it is summer, tomorrow is fall.

Edwina Fallis

I'm Bert! Which Sesame Street character are you?

You Are Bert

Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you lovable - even if you don't love them! You are usually feeling: Logical - you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others

The Sesame Street Personality Quiz

Blogthings: Quizzes and Tests and Memes, Oh My!

November - 2001

I'm wishin', wishin', wishin' ...

My grandmother sent this adorable card in the early 1970s.  I wish I had kept the envelopes to these cards but at the time it never dawned on me to do that.  Think back to the early 1970s and imagine if someone had told you about the internet to come ... it would have seemed like science fiction to me!  

My grandmother writes "I hear through the grapevine that you are sitting up & have your stitches out - wonderful!  Wonderful!!  You will make it yet kiddo!  Just think, you will soon be going home so make every effort to help your self.  Keep your chin up. Be good.  Love, Grandma"

At this happy time of your graduation

This card was sent to me in 1978 by "Helen & Emery" and I racked my brain this morning but could not remember them ... how awful!!  I had to email my mother to see if she could remember them and she informed me that Emery worked with my father for years.  She couldn't remember their last name at first but emailed me after an hour to fill me in after she finally remembered it.  THEN I remembered ... my father always called him by his last name, never by Emery so that explains my memory loss.  

This card folds out into 3 sections and is made by "Drawing Board Greeting Card Co".  I'm not familiar with them so I did a quick search online and it seems they were acquired by American Greetings at some point and later became Carlton Cards.  

From the Back Deck - 1996

Ruth's Pie Crust

All That Jazz

This birthday card opens up to display a pop-up gathering of the Peanuts gang gathered around Schroeder's piano!  A great card from the 1970s!  

 

So True!

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.  

Maxim Gorky

View from side porch - 1997

Happiness Is ...

This very cute and cheerful get well card was sent by some friends of my grandmother in the early 1970s.  I love the bright and mirthful faces of the flowers!