Les on July 31st, 2009

This is my first postcard sent from Thailand. I love postcards that show ancient ruins or other historic sites or battles, etc.

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Les on July 31st, 2009

I received this postcard from China.  It shows several of the buildings in the famous “Forbidden City” in China.

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Les on July 24th, 2009

This is a lovely postcard showing a number of the national costumes from the Ukraine.  My friend Julia is originally from there so I’m hoping she can translate the various descriptions for me.

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Les on July 16th, 2009

This was my first postcard from the Czech Republic.  It looks like the city is full of amazing architecture and history.

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Les on July 16th, 2009

This was my first postcard received from Italy.  It was also the first postcard written all in a foreign language (Italian).  I was able to make out what she wrote however.  :-)

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Les on July 16th, 2009

Yes, another postcard received from Finland.  This card is odd.  It’s all in Finnish and possibly other languages and it appears to be an “ad card’ of some kind for a company with the website www.kansanvalta.fi.  I have yet to check it out.

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Les on July 16th, 2009

I received this postcard from Poland.  The note on the back was from a 7 year old boy and his mother.  He wrote out a small greeting in English.  How cute!!

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Les on July 15th, 2009

People tell me that I have amazing fresh salsa.  I have friends that pay me to make it for them.  In fact, one of my friends has even said that I’ve spoiled her for real fresh salsa so that anything else just doesn’t measure up.  Naturally, I just shrug, because after all, it’s just a [...]

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Les on July 14th, 2009

Ok, nothing major today, just some random thoughts bouncing through my head right now.
1) I love my iPhone.  I just wish I could have waited for the 3Gs to come out so I got the video camera part.  But, c’est la vie!
2) The weather radio in the kitchen is blinking, so we must have lost [...]

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Les on July 13th, 2009

Yesterday, I spent about 5 wonderful hours communing with nature along with several friends as we spent the late morning and early afternoon kayaking on the Duck River in southern middle Tennessee.  During this “float” as we like to call it, we encountered a rope swing tied to a very large tree that had fallen [...]

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