A Postcard A Day - Friday 6 November 2026 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely peeps,

On Friday I always try to tell you all about the things that made me smile. And as per usual. I start with a postcard:

It's from the South Florida Postmark Posse. The Postcrossers had a meeting in Davie (Florida) on July the 21st 2026. My address came out of the bag and they all signed it with a little stamp. I have been to such a meeting myself and I didn't have such a rubber stamp. I had a very sore hand after writing my name 250 times!

In case you can't read it, the writing n the card reads: "Postcrossing began. in Portugal as a small project created by Paulo Magalhan and Ana Campos, who loved receiving meaningful mail and wanted to connect people around the world through real postcards. Since its launch in 2006, the platform has evolved into a global community of thousands and celebrates handwritten mail, cultural exchange and human connection in a digital age."

You can read about the history of Postcrossing here and it also contains a Ted Talk.

The stamp is similar to the card. It is the Postcrossing  US Forever stamp:

Sorry. I couldn't get it straight. But it's the same stamp as in my last blog post.

Not much has happened since I last wrote. I had visitors. My friend from the Netherlands and her man stayed with me:

Ronnie loves a warm lap.

He always makes me smile.

Today (Thursday) was a beautiful sunny day, so I spent all day doing laundry. I think I did 5 loads of washing as I had so much bedding to wash and towels from two lots of visitors. There was sun and a nice little breeze. I'm very glad to say that everything is dry! (Another big smile)

On the Friday, when my visitors arrived, they mentioned that there was no hot water! My electric boiler had broken down. And on the Friday night of a Bank Holiday weekend, there is not much I could do. I did phone my regular plumber and he instructed me to do certain things over the phone, but that didn't help so I had to wait until Tuesday. And sure enough, on Tuesday he came and fixed it! Another smile.

Baza, my nearest town, has an indoor swimming pool. My friend Antonia goes there every week and does exercises in the water with a group of older women. I have been on the waiting list for more than a year, and the other day I got a message to say that there was a place for me! That morning I had to go into town anyway to renew my driving licence, so I went in and got registered, Tomorrow (Friday) will be my first session. 

By the way, I had to do an eye test t renew my driving licence, and I will get another licence for 5 years! Hurray! I thought at my age (75) I would get a shorter time. But 5 years is great!

That is all. I will put some funnies at the end of course to make you all smile.

Take care,

Keep smiling!

Lisca

A Postcard A Day - Monday 2 November 2026 - Second on the second and T for Tuesday in one

 Hello lovely peeps,

I'm showing you a post from 2025 around the same date. The honouring of the dead is a big thing here and I too went to the cemetery yesterday to 'see' my husband, having cleaned the marble stone the day before. The cemetery was full of flowers and colour. A feast for the eye!

At the end of my Second on the 2nd I will post a few lines about this week and a drink of course for the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard.

Good Morning! Good Monday!

Here in Spain it's a Bank Holiday, i.e. a day off. The official festival day was yesterday, the 1st of November (All Saints day) when everybody goes to the cemetery to pay respects to loved ones who have past away. Graves get spruced up, there are flowers everywhere, and the cemetery is the busiest it's been all year. This year the 1st of November fell on a Sunday, so the Spanish have their day off on Monday!

As I am in Spanish mode I want to show you a Spanish map card today. Postcrossing members often ask for map cards, so I do my best to find them. A few weeks ago I went to a Christian Women's Conference on the coast which involved travelling by bus. When I was at the Granada bus station I found a stall that sold postcards and lo and behold they sold map cards! Hurray! I immediately bought five!

This is the region I live in. I live on the far right of the green bit. I have marked it with a little black asterix. The yellow dotted areas are national parks and as you can see we live just outside a national park. It is a beautiful area. Here is another postcard:

I know it's very dry and these are what they call 'badlands' where nothing grows, but I find it stunningly beautiful!

Finally I'd like to show you a new sheet of postage stamps that I bought at the post office this week:

They are about rural architecture, and to be used for mail inside Europe.

That's me done for today.

See you again tomorrow when I link up with T for Tuesday.

Blessings,

Lisca

This is my T-for-Tuesday post:

Starting with a postcard I received through Postcrossing:

Wikipedia writes:

Mammoth Cave National Park is a national park of the United States in south-central Kentucky. It encompasses portions of Mammoth Cave, the longest known cave system in the world. The park's 52,007 acres (21,046 ha) are located primarily in Edmonson County, with small areas extending eastward into Hart and Barren counties. 

The Green River runs through the park, with a tributary called the Nolin River feeding into the Green just inside the park.

The cave system has formally been known as the Mammoth–Flint Ridge Cave System since 1972, when a connection was discovered between Mammoth Cave and the even longer system under Flint Ridge to the north. As of 2025, more than 426 miles (686 km) of passageways had been surveyed, over 1.5 times longer than the second-longest cave system, Mexico's Ox bel ha underwater cave.

The park was established as a national park on July 1, 1941, after oft-contentious eminent domain proceedings whose consequences still affect the region. It was named a World Heritage Site on October 27, 1981; an international Biosphere Reserve on September 26, 1990; and an International Dark Sky Park on October 28, 2021.

Beautiful isn't it.

The stamp is an unusual one:

It celebrates Postcrossing! 

I've had a busy weekend. It's been All Hallows and All Saints here and today, as All Saints fell on a Sunday, people here also have Monday off.

I'm having my friend Ineke from Holland visiting me and of course we went out for meals and for drinks:

Here we are having a G & T each. Of course this is my 'ticket' to the T-Party.

Outside the bar, where the empties were stacked I found a little carved pumpkin. It's the first one I have seen in Spain:

I'm wearing a jacket and scarf as it was evening and having a dog with us, we had to sit outside. (I'm a cold mortal).

That is all for today,

Happy Second on the 2nd and Happy T-Day to all!

Lisca

A Postcard A Day - Friday 29 October 2026 - Friday Smiles and Face Off (Short and sweet)

 Hello lovely peeps,

Here I am again with, as promised, the second postcard from New York:

My friend Kim and her hubby had been to New York recently to visit their son in Brooklyn. She brought me two beautiful black and white postcards. Thank you Kim.

This one has all the iconic places that even I would be able to sum up if asked about New York. My friends have seen all these places with their own eyes. They went up the Empire State Building, saw the Statue of Liberty from the ferry, visited Ground Zero, and walked Brooklyn Bridge. It was the trip of a life time.

Because the postcards were given to me in person, there are no stamps to show you today.

Not much time has passed since Tuesday (my previous blogpost) so I don't have much to tell you. I need a smile and a face. Well, that is easy:

My lovely cat Ronnie puts a smile on my face.

He has such a cute little face, even when he is asleep.

I have not many photos today, just a few I took at the local market (all from one stall apart from the olives):

Dried fruit and sugared fruit.

Pistachios, almonds and hazelnuts.

Olives and pickled chillies.

All sorts of nuts and also local honey.

Dried pasta, all sorts of nuts, even monkey nuts.

More nuts and snack mixes, but I have no idea what those round brown things are. (they are too small to be crackers).

More nuts.

Before I drive you all nuts, I will call it a day. But of course there will be some funnies at the end.

Have a wonderful Halloween weekend,

Lisca