This is Part 2 of the PC 8 response thread. Here is a link to the first thread .
Please continue to use this thread to post comments for cards you receive as part of Post Card Exchange #8 - In Envelope - to be sent between Jan 1 and Apr 30, 2002.

Happy Post Card Lighthousing!

Dave

Dave,
I'm a little confused.
Should I post responses here or on Anchor Bay? JoanieO

This thread is the right one for PC#8 Exchange. The contest info is all posted in the Anchor Bay thread. I apologize if I caused any confusion when I first announced the contest in this thread.

Bob

LI Bob probably is wondering if anyone received his vacation card. Yes, Bob, it arrived here safely. Maybe we need to organize a road trip to see the light this is named after?

Dave

My postcards for the PC#8 exchange will be in the mail tomorrow 3/2.
JoanieO

I just got Joanie O's card. Thanks for a great Florida light to add to my collection. The article you enclosed as well looks interesting. I'll have to read over it tonight with a cup of tea.

Thanks Joan!


shirin

Got a fantastic card from the Toth's today - unbelievable colors. It is the second card of Kilauea in this exchange! (Is there a theme here?) Really neat thing is that the 2 cards (other one from Lori) do show two completely different views of the light, one a ground level perspective, the other an arial shot.

Dave

Dave you're right. That is a great card from the Toths. Thank you Gary and Kay. Your sister picked out a fantastic view of the light. The card and letter have already found their place in the postcard binder I set up for the cards I receive in the exchanges on the forum.

Thanks again,

shirin

Just wanted to aknowledge receipt of the following postcards which I have received over the past few weeks:

Cape Disappointment from Jo Ann
Huntington Harbor from Bob McKeon

Thanks for the great postcards!

Should be mailing mine out within the next two weeks. Will be visiting a lighthouse next weekend and plan on getting some cards then.

I received cards from the Toth's and JoanieO today. Thanks!

Joanie's Florida card and article also showed up here today. Great card, and interesting article.

What I have come to really enjoy about the "in envelope" exchanges are the histories, articles or personal stories about the lights shown on the cards. I think they make the exchange a lot more fun, and we often learn a little more about the lights.

Dave

Today I received Kilauea from Gary & Kay Toth and Sanibel from Joan Ouellett. Both great postcards! Nice color! Great articles! Thanks!

Suzanne

My postcards went in the mail today.


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They must know I'm going to Hawaii Dave! They got me countin' the days. 67

Just wanted to chime in. Been a busy couple of months and have not had the luxury of checking into the forums. In reading everyone's it appears I have received all of them so far. Mine are almost ready. Hope folks will like my little surprise. I am new to this, so I have waited a while to get mine out so I can see how this whole wonderful exchange works. Lots of fun so far!

We will all be looking forward to your cards, Sanibel.

Got great cards of Raspeberry Island from Suzanne. This is a really neat light in the Apostle Islands. We visited there a few years back when we travelled the south shore of Lake Superior. For those who have summers free, they have live-in keepers in the summer months!

Dave

Suzanne's Raspberry Island postcards made it out to NY. Wow, 2 for the price of 1! Thanks Suzanne,

shirin

Thanks for the Raspberry Island cards Suzanne. I traded for a pin of Raspberry Island at the HL Reunion in Baltimore. It's nice to receive some information on the lighthouse.

It's great seeing those postcards coming in! Thanks to Suzanne for the Raspberry Island Light cards and to Patty & Mike for the Ponce de Leon card.

I'm ready to start a third album for my postcards. It's really great to get cards depicting lights I've never seen before.

Bob

Thanks Suzanne for the Raspberry Lighthouse post cards. I've got them in my scrapbook already. JoanieO

Received Suzanne's Raspberry Island postcards yesterday. This looks like a really beautiful light. I will definitely have to get up to see it someday.

I received 3 lovely cards from Ron Foster yesterday. Boston, Avery Point and Minot's Ledge. Thanks for the great cards Ron.

shirin

Ron Foster(con't): Don't forget, in a lovely New London Light envelope and a history page. Thanks to all in this exchange, I look foward to the mail everyday.
- Bob

Also received Ron's 3 cards packaged in the wonderful New London envelope. Was very impressed with the Minot's Ledge card. One would not think tourists would want a Minot's Ledge postcard, but maybe there are more lighthouse enthusiats than I thought.

Over the past week or so I received:

from Ron - 3 very nice postcards of Boston Light, Avery Point and Minots Ledge

from Kay - a beautiful postcard of Kilauea Lighthouse

from Suzanne - two exquisite postcards of Raspberry Island Lighthouse

from Joan - a wonderful postcard of Sanibel Island

These postcards make me wish I could take a trip to all of these lighthouses - now!!! LOL!

Should be seeing a lighthouse this weekend and plan on getting my postcards then!

Two more postcards today.

Bodie Island from Eileen & Dave Dunlap and Saugerties from Jim Johnson. Both cards are great as well as the included histories.
I've been to both of these lights and did not pick up a postcard of either one. Thanks all to filling in my collection.


shirin

This exchange is loads of fun. As others have stated I also look forward to opening the mail everyday. Thank you all for the beautiful cards and notes.

Ron
(CT Keeper)

Today I received a great Cape Lookout postcard and letter plus a nice surprise from Eileen and Dave Dunlap.

I still haven't received Ron's postcards. I hope they aren't lost.

Suzanne

Today I received Saugraties from JIm Johnson. Yesterday I received Bodie Island from Eileen & Dave Dunlap. Thanks!

Glad to hear my postcard made it as far as Wisconsin so far.
We received a nice card from Jim Johnson today.
Thanks for all the fun so far.

I hit the trifecta today.

I got the Bodie card from the Dunlaps (and I'm going make my call from the NJLHS Meeting tomorrow), the Saugerties card from Jim Johnson and the three cards from Ron Foster.

Not a bad haul in one day.

Dennis

Got cards from Sanibel & JJ the past couple of days. Many thanks for more great cards and write ups!

Dave

I received Jim's Saugerties postcard and letter today. Still haven't received Ron's cards. Maybe tomorrow.

Suzanne

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for all the wonderful cards. I returned home yesterday and found ten cards (from both exchanges) in my mailbox. It was a great surprise to find so many.

Just wanted to let you know my postcards will be in the mail soon. It was just too expensive to mail them from overseas. Hope you all enjoy.

Judy

Ron's postcards arrived today! I was getting worried. But, when I saw New London Harbor on the envelope, I knew it had to be from him.

Suzanne

Received Ron's three cards today in Maryland. I love that view of Minot's Ledge.

Today's mail came from Linda Manning - an Absecon postcard. This card reminds me that I need to get down that way to see the new keepers quarters.

Great card Linda, Thanks!

shirin

Shirin,

They did a great job. We got to see the Keeper's house after the Meeting this past Saturday.

It was raining pretty hard when i got there so i did not get a chance to take too many pictures outside. Inside it would have been pictures of people- it was wall to wall with NJLHS Members

It's much bigger than i expected from the foundation I saw previously.

Dennis

Thanks for the update Dennis. I wanted to go to the meeting so I would see the new keepers quarters but when your business has a conference in Cincinnati the same weekend, something has to give. I might try next weekend to make it down that way.

shirin

I'm not sure we can call you a true Wacko anymore.

Putting making a living before Lighthouses.

Priorities.

Dennis

Laurie & Suzanne, I'm glad that the cards finally arrived. I told MJ that I wasn't sure what I would do to replace them.

Ron
(CT Keeper)

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The past couple of days I have received cards from Ron Foster and Linda Manning. Thanks!

I finally got my cards from Ron - trying to read the cancellation, it looked like mailed 9 March, received in Indiana 19 March - 10 days. Also got a card from a friend in Australia which only took 6 days to arrive - go figure.

Also got Linda's Absecon card & info. More new additions for the collection, along with lots of great info! Thanks, Ron & Linda

Dave

Hey Dennis - I did everything I could to try to get in a lighthouse while away but, Cincinatti is nowhere near one. Not knowing if I would be able to see one as our planes landed in Cleveland or Detroit, I insisted on having the window seat on each flight. No luck there, but I did find an Ohio postcard in the Cleveland airport with a tiny picture of the Marblehead lighthouse on it. The rest of the postcard had pictures of other things found in Ohio. And the airport in Detroit had a few lighthouse items in one of the shops. As my boyfriend says, I can find a lighthouse anywhere.

shirin

Shirin,

Anybody who could mange to get to as many lightouses as you have in the amount of time you did it proves you long ago earned the title Wacko.

I'm sure you could find something lighthouse related in the middle of North Dakota.

Dennis

I received Linda's Absecon Lighthouse stamped postcard and letter today.

Yes, Dave, my envelope from Ron is postmarked March 9th and I received it in Wisconsin on March 19th. It must have been stuck in a post office x-ray machine for several days.

Suzanne

It took six days for Ron'd postcards to get from CT to NJ.

Problem must have been at the CT end of the trip.

Dennis

This kind of service and they feel the need to raise the price?? Go figure.

Dave

Dennis,

I could have delivered them in one day myself. I agree that there is no justification for raising the price to mail a letter. The service just gets worse. How about they concentrate on trimming the fat and streamlining the process.

Sorry it took so long Dennis.

Ron
(CT Keepers)

I just opened up the wonderful Absecon card, brochure and note from Linda Manning. It is extra special as the back of the post card was stamped by the folks at Absecon with the official lighthouse stamp. Very Nice Touch!!
Thanks to all, this continues to be much fun.

Ron
(CT Keeper)

Ron,

Not to argumentative, but I don't agree with you about the US Postal Service.

I have very few problems with my mail- that's why your cards stand out in my mind.

I'd say 99% of the mail goes without any problem- of course 80% of the mail you get you don't ask for.

I don't want to pay more, but I can understand the need for it. The USPS can't pick and choose it's rates as UPS, etc can.

Dennis

Dennis