Getting the Mail

It is fun getting the mail these days. You get all kinds of different things in the mail, some unexpected. It is fun hearing from old friends you haven't heard from for a year. It is nice to get the beautiful Christmas cards and read what they have been doing the past year. One of my cousins will celebrate their 50th anniversary next year. My, does time fly. I like getting the picture cards to see how the families are growing. Babies have become little people and youngsters have become teenagers almost overnight. It really is a pleasure to go get the mail these days.

Birthday Cards

This has really been a week of birthdays. My sister's birthday was Tuesday. My daughter-in-law's birthday was Wednesday and my sister-in-law's birthday is Sunday. The Post Office wants to raise postage again and I really don't mind. There is no easier way to get a personal card to someone out of town that by the snail mail as they call it these days. I sent the ecards too but it is always nice to get something in the mail.

Mail Time

It is time to go get the mail but I am not sure how slick the road is. It isn't very far but it is too far when everything has a coat of ice on it. Sometimes when I order something, the mailman brings the packages to the door. I really appreciate that. I was hoping I would get a package today so I wouldn't have to go pick up the mail. It is so windy too but at least the snow is wet down so it can't drift. That is one good thing.

Mailman

Our poor mail lady is so loaded down with mail since the Thanksgiving Holiday. She says every time we have a Holiday, it puts them about 2 days behind so she doesn't get here till nearly 1:00 instead of at noon. We are on a rural route even though we are in town so we get our mail usually a day later than the other people do.

Letters

Do you enjoy receiving letters? I do. My aunt writes me quite regularly and she is 89 and nearly blind from mascular degeneration. They have email where she lives now so I try to email her at least once a week, They give them their emails at breakfast so that starts their day on a happy note. She loves where she lives.