Pictured below is a mountain that was popular in my mountain climbing days at Middlebury College in Vermont

The daily word game challenge is taking me a lot of time. But getting the right answer is so satisfying.

I am currently doing easy crossword puzzles. Although I consider myself to be fairly intelligent I have never been very good at crossword puzzles. I read a lot but that doesn’t seem to transfer over to crossword puzzles. Now I am doing the daily Wordle which I find very challenging. I struggle but I am doing fairly well. Part of the fun is comparing one’s efforts with others, family and friends. It spoils the fun if by accident I come upon the answer in someone’s blog. Please, those of you living in Australia or other parts of the world ahead of Seattle in time – don’t give the current day’s answer.

This is a vintage postcard showing a dirt road and an old trolly car in Montpelier Vermont

Montpelier is the state capital of Vermont.

Love in the Late Edition by Reg Henry

The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap by Paulette Mahurin

The Journal of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish Immigrant Story by William Durbin

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

The Rent Collector by Cameron Wright

Happy Times in Norway by Sigrid Unset

The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

people from my neighborhood by Hiromi kawakami

Two Under the Indian Sun by Jon and Rumor Godden

Ladies Night at Finbar’s Hotel, edited by Dermot Bolger

Never Change by Elizabeth Berg

A Summer in the Twenties by Peter Dickinson

Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo

Total – 15 books That’s a lot for 1 month. But quite a few of them were either quite short or just easy reads. It did seem easy to read intensively for many hours, and as it worked out I had the time to do so. Lucky me!

An online friend of mine is bidding on a rare postcard. Tomorrow she will tell me all about it – I can hardly wait! What does she mean? I regularly scour (oops that’s a good Wordle word) the various postcard dealers offerings. I don’t spend more than a few dollars on an individual card but all my “little” purchases add up.

This postcard is certainly old but I don’t think it is particularly rare. It cost all of $3.

This is a great card -it’s new, just posted a few days ago, but that’s a vintage travel image.

This is an “old” postcard. There is nothing to indicate its vintage apart from the reverse side which is similar in style to the postcard shown below.

I am thinking of my father especially this month of March. He passed away many years ago, in 1949. Too soon – he was only 57. I was 12 years old.