We have mostly completed PCE 20, so it is time to start up a new one. This will run from August 1 thru November 15. If you would like to participate please sign in below. Any questions, email me or post them. All Forum participants are invited to join in. This exchange is for post cards mailed in an envelope, not written on. Cards should be new and unused. Generally people include a little extra information about the light they selected, or perhaps share a lighthousing adventure involving the light.

Bob Scroope is #2, next person will be #3. Max is 25 participants plus our courtesy mailings. You will need a total of 28 cards if you want to keep a copy for yourself.

Numero 3 for me......

I'll be #4 here too.

I'll take #5.

6

I already have cards

We'll take #7.

I'll be #8. I have my cards already!

Ron & MJ are #9

I'll be #10

Charles

i will be 11

#12 please

I will be #13.

14 for me

Number 15 please, thanks!

16 it is .........

Dan

#17 Thanks!
JoAnn

#18 - Voting age

Yeah! I get to be 19......
Derith

Make me 20 please!

I bought some new cards today and I do mean new, I don't think this Lighthouse has ever had a postcard done before!!!!

Stephanie

I'll be #21

I'll take #22 please.

#23 here. Almost missed this one.

Two spots left if anyone is interested. If no one signs up by this weekend, I will close sign up and distribute a draft mailing list Sunday or Monday.

Sign up is closed. I have just sent a mailing list to everyone. If you do not receive it for some reason, please let me know.
Continue to use this thread to post mailings and receipts.

My offerings for this exchange went out in today's mail. As with PCE #23, again 22 cards went to 22 on the list and another different 3 went to the remaining 3. Hopefully they'll all be new to the recipient's collections.

Dan

You are very fast Dan.

I just completed all my envelopes and they will be in the mail first thing in the morning. The cards I sent are from a popular lighthouse but I have never received a card from it so I hope it's a new one.

I searched high and low for this lighthouse postcard. The one sent was the only card I found in my search. I call this packet the "before and after".

I received my envelope today from Dan & Carol. Very helpful enclosures. Thanks!

Considering all the new cards I just bought...I didn't buy this one. :rolleyes: This is another new card to add to my collection.

Dan, Somehow I missed this card, too. I must have looked for cards in at least a dozen different places.

Thanks!

Tammy

Gee that map looks familiar Dan!

My batch goes out today from soggy central NY.
All the same, from an area my family likes to go to for a few days annually during our kids' spring break from school in mid-April. Which means there is still a chance for snow (until June) back home!

Received Dan's card the other day. Thanks and that map is neat!

Yes, I had a case of those maps and put one in the folder that was given to each person on the boat trips.

Lorie's card arrived here today. A very nice package! Thanks.

Received Lorie's offerings in yesterday's mail. Very nice card and extras. It is a new card ro our collection. Thanks.

Suzanne,

Picked up a batch of the maps at the Gooseberry State Park Visitor Center. I know you handed them out for the cruise and they were very nice. I thought they would be well received by others that didn't partake in our cruising adventures!!

Dan

Great stuff received so far - Thanks!

I received Bill's envelope in the mail today. I used to visit this lighthouse every year when my son was in college in the area. Now that he's graduated, I haven't seen it since 2001.

Received a card from Bill E. (Boomer Schooner?) today. Visited that light in May of this year after returning to Norfolk from a cruise to Bermuda. The day we visited it was not all that nice though .... wet and rainy!! From a distance, this light's paint scheme makes it look likes it's tilted like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Dan

I'm mailing my cards today. Almost everybody will be getting a different card.
Charles

My cards are in the mail. Everyone gets the same.

Received Dave's offerings in today's mail. A pretty postcard, some nice photos and a very nice documentary. Thanks,

Dan

Received Charles' card today. Nice write up, even gives you a little direction on seeing other lights in the area! If he mailed different cards of different lights, he sure had some writing to do! Good job.

Thanks for the card and pictures Dave. We hope to be seeing that area in the near future.

Received Charles card in today's mail. No write-up for me .... must be mad at me for taking all the good cards out of RR #10 before sending it on to New York.

A very nice card .... thinking about touring the area in 2005.

Dan

Have received cards from Bill, Charles and Dave. All new ones for me. Thanks to all!

Hey Dave, maybe I missed it in your letter with the postcard & photos. Which lites are in the pix? I'm guessing St. Helena Island & Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, can't figure out the third one.
Did I get any correct? bill e.

Bill, when I include photos I use my extra copies from trips - don't list who gets what. Photos I used this time did include St. Helena and SB pictures so you are probably right.

Bill, maybe we got the same ones from Dave. I believe I have the two lights you mentioned plus Sherwood Point. Could that be the one you can't ID?

Thanks Dave, I like having the photos... Hi Mombo, we might have received the same 3 photos, but Sherwood Point is not the one I can't identify. Pictures I have in a couple of Great Lakes books of S-P don't match up with the photo.
It will be one of those back-burner projects I'll go back to, from time to time, to try to figure out, eventually, hopefully. bill e.

Dan
Negative on the anger. I'd have done the same thing given the chance
If you want company on your trip to LI, drop me an email

Charles

Hi Charles,

Was just joshing and tweaking the tail a little. I had hoped you were not mad or frustrated and glad to hear that was the case.

With respect to trips in 2005, we haven't really laid out a plan yet. Our annual goal is to visit and photograph 100 lighthouses. Our year starts on October 1st and ends at 11:59 PM on September 30th. Why that is our year, I don't know. It's been that way for a long time and we're not motivated to change it. Up until now this year we have photographed 106 lighthouses. Possibilities for 2005:
* reunion on Mackinaw Island and any associated trips. Hope an Apostle Islands cruise could be worked out for that timeframe.
* would like to go on a tour of West Coast lights and hope the Pixie can get something organized.
* definitely want to get over into New England. There are many lights there we have not visited.
* would like to go along Lakes Erie and Ontario (MomboLand) and possibly around Lake Champlaign.
* possibly see Gulf Coast lights again if we decide to bail out of Meeeechegan for a part of the winter and go out to Arizona.

Will let you know if we get over into the LI area. We went to the long Island Regional last year but weren't able to get past the Gestapo to see Coney Island light. Maybe next time.

Be Well, Dan

Hey Mombo, Dave helped me out. It was Eagle Bluff Lighthouse... bill e.

You were lucky Bill. Last time around Dave sent me one I had a hard time figuring out. It took a bit of searching the web but I finally got it!

As long as we're just chit-chatting here I do want to thank Charles for his write-up. As Dave said, he must have had lots of different ones to do sending out different cards to everyone. Mine was of Plum Island, NY and included lots of neat info!

In the mail AM. Hope this arrives w/o the US Mail stirring the envelope to much?
Let's see which one arrives first - Envelope or NoEnvelope?

I received Bob Scroope's stirring postcard in envelope today! Neat addition to the envelope! Really cool!

The in envelope postcard wins. I didn't receive the out of envelope postcard, not yet anyway.

Well, it seems that I may have to switch from beer to a different sort of cocktail! But I'm sure I'll be up to that "challenge"! Thanks Bob!

Received LI Bob's entry for this round today. Think I can say it is a first for both the card and the enclosure! Glad the USPS was gentle with the envelope!

Received Bob's card and extra tidbit in yesterday's mail. Very nice ..... Thanks Bob.

Dan

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