A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 8 July 2025 - T for Betty and Marilyn, breakfast and a ginger cat.

 Hello lovely peeps, It's Tuesday again and I'm writing my blog post  and true to form my cat Ronnie tries to jump onto the keyboard. But never mind, I'll correct the gibberish later.

I have a black and white postcard for you:

Of course it's the lovely Marilyn, putting on her make-up. The info on the back reads: "This publicity shot, taken in the make-up department of Columbia Pictures in 1947 or 1948, reveals that beauty came naturally to Marilyn. Photograph The Bettmann Archive."

It was sent to me from the USA by Jason who lives in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Of course being European, I didn't know where that is, so I looked it up. Wisconsin is here:

And Mount Horeb is here:

It has a little more than 7000 inhabitants, mostly from Norwegian ancestry. In fact Mount Horeb is called the Troll capital of the world:

Jason writes that they have just enjoyed a weekend called The Summer Frolic in Mount Horeb with rides, live music, a parade and fire works.

The stamps are magnificent:

Betty White (17 January1922 - 31 December 2021) you might recognize (if you are of a certain age). She was an American actress. I remember her from the Golden Girls, but she was also in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which I only vaguely remember.

Looking at the dates she died 17 days shy of her 100th birthday!

The middle stamp celebrates Science & Industry:

When the stamp was announced a month and a half earlier on December 1, 1982, the USPS said it would honor the teamwork of science and industry, stating “Working together, they have produced such important developments as electrical power, the automobile, radio and television, synthetic fibers, electronics, jet air travel, computers, lasers, nuclear energy, antibiotics, and space exploration.”  The stamp’s issue also coincided with the 50th anniversary of Chicago’s Science and Industry Museum, though the USPS didn’t officially say the stamp commemorated the event. (info from Mystic Stamp Company).

The rabbit stamp comes from a series of baby animals:

USPS writes: The Postal Service will release its Baby Wild Animals stamps on Friday, May 23.

The stamps feature illustrations of 10 familiar American animal species as babies.

The animals — fox, owl, deer, seal, rabbit, raccoon, bear, skunk, bobcat and chipmunk — range widely across the United States.

Tracy Walker created the digital illustrations, layering colored shapes on a solid-color background in a palette of rust orange, cornflower blue, pale ecru, black and white.

Each animal appears with details of its habitat — flowers, leaves, water and other natural elements.

The picture of Marilyn in the corner of the postcard is nit a stamp. It's printed on the card.

Now lets jump over to Spain. What have I been up to? It's very hot here and the only time I can sit outside is early in the morning, so I have breakfast on my little patio:

As it has a drink in it (water, as I had already had my coffee) this can be my 'ticket' to the T-Party hosted by Elizabeth and Bluebeard.

My new lamp has finally arrived. The one I wanted wasn't in the shop and the sales lady told me it would only take a week if they ordered it for me. Three weeks later... Anyway I asked my good friend and neighbour Tam to take the old one down:

and hang the new one up:

Ronnie has just taken a selfie on my laptop (How did he manage to do that?):

Talking of Ronnie, he is always ready to pose:

And one last one (I'm officially a cat lady, you know):

That's it from me today.

Happy T-Day,

Lisca