A Postcard A Day - Friday 11 June 2025 - Friday Smiles

 Hello lovely peeps, Here we are again at the end of a week and I have lots of smiles to share with you. First off is always my postcard. This one arrived yesterday:

As you can read, it's from Scranton, PA. It was sent to me by Connie, who, like me, also likes trains.

Info on the back of the card:

 

Wikipedia writes this:

Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located on 62.48 acres (25.3 ha)^[2] in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, at the site of the former Scranton yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W). 

The museum is built around a working turntable and a roundhouse that are largely replications of the original DL&W facilities; the roundhouse, for example, was reconstructed from remnants of a 1932 structure. The site also features several original outbuildings dated between 1899 and 1902. All the buildings on the site are listed with the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Yard-Dickson Manufacturing Co. Site.

The stamp is the new round stamp which I think I have already featured:

It is a 32 point compass rose drawn by Lucia Wadsworth - the aunt of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - in her school geography notebook in 1794!

I found more info about her on the website of the Maine Historical Society:

A Glimpse of Lucia: Documenting Her World

In 1794, eleven-year-old Lucia Wadsworth (1783-1864) started writing in her Geometry and Geography School Book as part of her education. At that time, Bowdoin College had just been founded, President George Washington was suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion, and Eli Whitney had invented his cotton gin the year before. Portland had been a town for less than ten years, and Maine wouldn’t become a state for another 26 years.

Lucia's father, Peleg Wadsworth, had served under General George Washington in the War for Independence. After the war, Peleg settled on the outskirts of Portland, building a home, barn, outbuildings, and adjacent store on Back Street (now Congress Street). Lucia was the fifth of ten children born to Peleg and Elizabeth Bartlett Wadsworth and she lived in the structure now known as the Wadsworth-Longfellow House for almost her entire life.

The only image of Lucia that survives––or perhaps the only one that was taken––was made on her 79th birthday in 1862. On October 19, 1864, an obituary was published after a notice of her death was issued.

How interesting! I just love history!

Now, what's been happening with me here in (very hot) southern Spain?

My lovely neighbour Dian has baked a German cherry bread pudding (Kirschmichel). 

She lives on her own too so I had to help her eat it:

This was half the pudding! Bang went the diet! But it was so yummy! Thank you Dian.

This morning (Thursday) I joined the ladies of my gym/Pilates group in the village for an end-of-year breakfast:

The only young woman in the picture (third from the right) is our teacher.

We sat in the patio (courtyard) of a popular bar in the village under a vine. Breakfast in Andalucia is half a toasted baghette with tomatoes finely chopped up and olive oil and salt. Very nice. I also had orange juice and my coffee.

The lady stood behind me is Celia, my neigbour at the back of my house. 

My son and his wife and son are in Spain at the moment and staying with my sister in Marbella (she has a pool). 

Tomorrow (Friday) I will drive down to join them for 5 days. It's a 3 and a half hour drive and then family fun, so I don't know if I can do many blog visits. 

But I do have several funnies lined up for you at the end here.

That's it for now. Bye for now.

Have a lovely weekend,

Lisca

These funnies are all 'Lost in Translation':