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The theme of Postcardy's August Scavenger Hunt is "My Funniest Postcards", this one was the funniest one I found in our collection, Postcardy's are much funnier.

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I guess to a youngun' like me, it seems "funny" that my elders could be risque.This postcard was written to my Great Aunt Iva Pringle Howell in 1950? (the postmark is hard to read)

In 1950 she would have been 55 years old and had been married to her childhood "Sweetie Pie" for 32 years. I wonder who sent this, I think a girl friend.

Me and my wife,Lei, both enjoy postcards, so when I saw a new blog carnival, Evelyn Theriault's A Festival of Postcards, I figured that would be an easy one to write a post for. It has been a little more difficult than that, when I saw this editions theme, "Water" and the rules: it’s time to get out those postcards depicting bodies of water, boats, bridges, fish – or anything that contains liquid! And please feel free to interpret the theme as liberally as you wish. I thought I had it - but when I found the postcard ....

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When I was a little girl, one of my favorite "special" things to do was play with my mom's jewelry. I would get to sit up on my parents bed and go through her jewelry box. As I put on each piece, I would go show my mom how beautiful I looked. She had a story for each one, where dad got it, how he gave it to her, what she liked about it. I think I enjoyed hearing those stories as much as I did wearing the jewelry. The jewelry box, and most of the jewelry is from Japan. Some of the pieces came from Siam and India. I remember thinking the box was just the most beautiful and special thing I had ever seen. It was black and red lacquer painted in the typical Japanese scenes. After you opened the lid, there were two compartments that you lifted and slid to each side, doing that opened a larger area that had more gems inside! It played a dainty Oriental tune. I would keep winding it up so it would play over and over, I would pretend I was in some exotic foreign land and that I was a princess admiring all her jewels. I can't remember when my mom gave me the box, and unfortunately it was lost in a move or ultimately in our fire. I found this picture online, similar to the one my mother had.

Dad was in the Navy. He was a flight engineer on the "Super Connie", a plane in the 'Airborne Early Warning Wing of the Pacific', during

One of my passions is remembering and honoring those who have sacrificed so much, so that we can enjoy freedom. An article caught my eye yesterday morning, so I thought I'd share it. From the BBC News, "Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and one of the last surviving World War I servicemen,

My Great Aunt Iva was born in 1895, Iva Fern Brown, to William Brown and Ella Pringle, either in Michigan or Ontario. She married George Henry Howell in Genesee Co., Michigan in 1917. I may have met her but I don't remember it, I just remember my Grandmother's many fond stories. I have ended up with her box of memorabilia and pictures.

Approx 1915 Clio or Davidson, Genesee County, Michigan area? Who are the kids?

The Lady holding the horse on the left is Ella Pringle Dutcher, the second child on the horse from the left with the big bow in her hair is My Grandmother, Daisy Dutcher, born 1908(appro. 7 yrs old). I think that the girl next to her with the horse that is shaking his head is her sister Vivian, born 1905. The other kids are unknown.

Again, aside from Daisy and Vivian Dutcher I don't know who these kids are. The one boy on the left is interesting, he looks like he is in a fancy riding outfit. The Dutchers are very poor farmers, I can't believe that they have rented these horses for a a kids birthday party, but that is sure what it looks like. Also this is circa 1915, all these kids have grown up with horses, it doesn't seem like a pony ride would be that big of a deal to them? My grandmother always talked about how much she loved horses, but, that was about 60 years after this picture was taken and probably 50 years after she last had a horse.