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Monday March 31st, 2025

Today I sent a postcard to Germany via postcrossing.com

I shared the story of yesterday’s visit to the Voelker Orth Museum.

Thursday April 3rd, 2025

The tick-key that I ordered on eBay has arrived!

I have a camping trip planned at the end of May and I want to be prepared for ticks.

I have been spending time learning about local wildlife for camping.

I will be expanding my camping further into the Northeastern part of the country and so learning about black bears and buying bear spray are also tasks to complete in the future.

Here’s a sticker that makes me laugh.

Here is my collection of role-playing game books.

Below this is the shelf of adventure books, journals and the postcarding supplies.

Remus doesn’t think my postcard shelf is messy.

Or does she?

Today I am feeling grumpy and I want to find a way to cheer myself up.

Sending postcards is always something that I enjoy, so I will try this.

This postcard of a Jackalope is going to Czechia to someone with a fascination of cryptids.

The following Statue of Liberty postcard is being shipped to Australia.

This postcard is being sent via Letters Against Isolation to a retirement home.

A short discussion about visiting Ellis Island is described on the back of this card.

Y’know what?

Let’s send more Letters Against Isolation postcards.

This one was also sent to Australia.

On this postcard I shared my story of moving from Austin, Texas to New York, New York and the nearby Noguchi Museum.

One more Letters Against Isolation postcards. This one to Ogden, Utah.

Sharing a brief chat about having a fear about my fear of heights despite having gone sky diving.

Why does looking out of an airplane not feel like heights?

This is a postcard that I made using a picture of a rugby game in Austin, Texas. Go Gilgronis!

For the record, there is no more Gilgronis team.

But it was a blast while it lasted.

I wish New York City had a Major League Rugby team. I love MLR so much.

Here are some pictures of Keanu attempting to bury her food.

I got cuddles from her later.

Friday April 4, 2025

I made a batch of twenty-five custom postcards, but I ended up with 49 as my first batch had a card with a fold and so a second printing was shipped to my home.

This postcard featuring a photo from one of the Pinballz locations in Austin, Texas was shipped to Portugal via postcrossing.com

I have a lot of fond memories at this location.

Pinballz would occasionally reset the high-scores on their arcade machines and so I would make it a point to set a new top score on Sinistar and on Tapper when visiting.

Note to self: If you print postcards again, make the address lines thinner, lighter and lower.

I took a lot of cat pictures during this time to share with my partner Lauri while she was away visiting family.

Please prepare yourself to see many cat pictures.

You good?

Cool.

Lazy Penny.

All three cats eating at the same time.

And then cats deciding that the other identical food offerings must be better than the food in their bowl.

Cozy Penny.

Tucked away Penny.

Remus receiving treats.

Keanu receiving treats.

I assure you, Penny also got treats.

But she also ran into the bedroom so fast that she couldn’t complete a turn and knocked over her food dish.

Penny is always watching.

Saturday April 5th, 2025

A postcard to my pal Tony in Michigan.

This postcard is of a window at the Voelker Orth Museum.

I share the story of my visit on this card.

I really enjoyed this museum a lot.

The plan for today is to visit King Manor and take the free tour.

I would like to invite people on these adventures that I have.

I have been researching various ways to do this and one of the methods is to create an eventbrite event.

There are no fees for list events here unless there are ticket sales, and then a portion of the sales are taken as payment.

So I created an event.

Today we shall see if anyone joins us.

I don’t know what it is about the rooms at the top of this building, but I find them fascinating.

Those giant heavy curtains remind me of my childhood.

I chose King Manor because I knew it would rain today.

I had originally planned to visit a garden, but when I saw the forecast I changed plans to an indoor location.

It’s a little bit of a trek to get to King Manor.

The building is at the end of a park.

Oh, drop of the postcard for Tony while I’m here!

I’m here early, so I’ll check out the surrounding area.

The photo above is from behind King Manor.

There are two gate entrances, this one is on the side with the entrance to the building and tour.

Check out this twisty branch.

Bad news. No one came from the eventbrite invite.

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Future Levi here. The eventbrite posting did get a little bit of interest. I can see that folks did look at the listing and that two signed up to go, but may have changed their mind due to the weather. I may try this again in the future.

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It is now tour time and thanks to the rain the visitor count is low and I have the free tour all to myself!

Nice.

There’s a hole in the floor.

I wonder if sticking something like a crowbar into this will let you lift the plank and discover a secret stash.

This really should be covered with a rug if there’s treasure under here, in my humble opinion.

The reading room.

Why are the books inside of a curtained wardrobe?

I asked this question myself.

It’s to protect them from damage due to light exposure.

Roped off stairs?

I bet they’re keeping the good exhibits back here.

Based on the size of the stairs my assumption is that these are for servants.

Look at all of this cast iron!

And luxurious warming devices.

Hey! An old black and white photograph with folks smiling!

How delightful.

A horse-hair couch.

I looked into horse-hair couches after visiting here and there was some drama with government couch orders related to horse hair couches.

There was a whole thing about how only one place still offered them and they were expensive, but they were still a requirement because of some old document.

Bureaucracy does strange things.

Here’s an old toll sign.

Small gift area.

The postcard were free.

I paid what I felt was a reasonable value for the postcards as a donation.

A delightful visit and a delightful tour.

The tour guide really knew his stuff and was able to explain to me things like the sugar nips in the kitchen.

Tomorrow I plan to take the Fraunces Tavern Museum Tour in Manhattan.

Cheers.