🇰🇷📺 I'm late to the party, but I love these challenges. Thank you, @devotedtodrama.bsky.social 🙂

🐺🦊📷 I was delighted to find this animal sanctuary and its events. We are attending the photography workshop and placing some new #geocaching containers along the way to this weekend's 📫 #Postcrossing meetup in Lansing, with a 'Crescent City' #audiobook playing and #moonpies in our snack bag. 🧭🌙 🥧🐺😋

📮🧭 While I was writing holiday and festival round robin ( #HFRR ) #postcrossing cards, my #Snoopy #Halloween cookie tins arrived from WM! 🎃 Each one contains a hard sugar cookie, but I bought them to use as #geocaching containers, and anyway Jeffrey will eat anything with sugar in it. 😜

📮 The #postcrossing Holiday and Festival round robin is a fun game, and today I am sending Dia de Muertos #postcards. 💀 #HFRR

🥨🍻 +family calendar: #Oktoberfest at the German club (est 1868) in the town where we are having a #postcrossing meetup, and one at our usual spot for German/Austrian food and an early Autumn Equinox meal. 🎶 #Postcard is one I made when we lived in NC. #geocaching 🧭

📮 The #postcrossing forums are really fun. I don't usually choose the skeleton one; however I bought and sent from Chicago's Field Museum a cool mummy, lenticular #postcard with this forum in mind. I love the card I received in return (from Frankfurt, Germany). It's perfect for autumn.🍁 #Chicago

📮🧭 I've been delighted to discover there are many #geocashing #postcrossing joint activities, for example, we'll be going to one for World Postcard Day (#WPD) and stopping on our way to a Lansing Michigan meetup to visit the postal museum and drop off a geocache owl trackable 'bug' nearby. 🦉

🐈☕ Wow, #FortWayne has a ton of #geocaches. I had fun starting my first cache placements (now in review), based on 🎶'My Favorite Things'. This is one of my fave cat cafes; I've visited 15; I collect t-shirts.📮And on my table is the FW postcard I made for #postcrossing showing their Dr MLK Jr bridge.

🐈 Fritzi usually travels with us; however, during the concert near Chicago, I was happy to have the new kitty cam. It was only $10 and I highly recommend one for peace of mind and just fun seeing what they're up to. (This is a test photo. We plug in the water fountain when gone.)

🎶 I'm much older than average fans, but I enjoy the dancing in music videos, and I wanted to experience a K-Pop concert in a small venue. I dressed up as Bubu, since Kai's symbol is a bear, enjoyed giving out the freebies I made, and all the attendees I met were very nice. #kaion #rosemont #kpop

We looked for a few caches on our way to Third Day Farm store, one of the local farms where we buy our pastured meat. Coincidentally I received a postcard featuring Australian cattle with lots of "fun facts" about the industry, surprisingly from a vegetarian #postcrosser. #geocaching #postcrossing

Today we did some #geocaching on our way to swim at the lake. This is our swag from #Kosciusko County, IN. I couldn't find a #passiton rock website. It might be from a The Kindness Rocks participant. The postcard is one I made for #postcrossing. #warsawindiana #pathtags

Fritzi does not help with my weight loss attempts when he's always so cutely asking for treats!

🔎🛑Our first rural Indiana #geocache find, attached to a stop sign. The owner of the adjacent cornfield immediately drove his lawn mower over and asked what we're doing on his property. The next two stops were fine, and now my husband's mood is brightened by a 🍕🎲 Slice and Dice game of #Battletech.

📮Today our U.S. postmark expert on #Postcrossing posted in the forum the new postmark he created for October 1st World Postcard Day. So this afternoon I will be busy addressing postcards to send first to Texas for this special cancellation. 🙂

📮 I found out that the town near my husband's new work project has a postal museum. It will be perfect to visit on our way to the September 27th #Postcrossing meetup in #Lansing Michigan. youtu.be/zamQcte8WUE

📮 I think I'll order some of these #postcards for #postcrossing friends even though I'm going to the Chicago / Rosemont #KAI concert. I don't often find the lenticular type postcards. #fanfundraiser #exo-l #texas

🫐📮 There are lots of good pictorial #postmarks this month. Our town's blueberry festival is coming soon, always on Labor Day weekend. It's held in the park across from my neighborhood. #maxicard #postcrossing #blueberries #maine #indiana

📮 Since the US New Year stamps are usually late, I'll order some more horse stamps for my new postcards until 2026. I was born in the year of the horse. 🙂 Also yesterday, I received another horse postcard for the 💙 sinking tag game on the #postcrossing forum. 🐎 #yearofthehorse #postcard #maxicard

My new postcards arrived today, and I now get to make my first maxicard. Use the address in the image if you would like to get a SpongeBob SquarePants pictorial postmark. #postcrossing #SpongeBobSquarePants #maxicard

There's a new Korean restaurant opening in South Bend IN near the 🧋snack shop we visited. I also found a place in IL for an afternoon snack before the #KAIONrosemount concert, near the cupsleeve event.

Adding some #KAI love to my summer phone case. I love my new Kodak sticker printer! I'm taking a break, not yet finished. Might add some 🎵🎶 It's nice to have a use for my puffy stickers 🦦🦀, not meant for #postcrossing postal machines, 📬 but I have received some.

🍉 Delighted #watermelonpickle maker and #KAI fan - just saw this! I am excited about the concert; I've been making attendee gifts tonight (see comment). Also fruit related. 😄 #Kaion #refrigeratorpickles

Quick #pickles are a wonderful way to use up leftover vegetables. Today I have extra red onions and limes, so I added mango salsa to the roster. The brine of the Asian Cauliflower and Carrot Pickles is dark because of the tamarind concentrate. #refrigeratorpickles

🎶 My pre-concert purchases are rolling in, part of the fun of concert going. I couldn't resist this camera shaped power bank with KAI's animal group 🧸; so cute! I'm not a collector (craft supplies don't count, right?), so I purchased a single #KAI #photocard from Etsy's hjfairy 💙 #chicagoartist

🥳 So happy to connect with #kpop fans, including those closer to my age. Lots of encouragement here. 🧑🏻‍💻 Discord invite via Reddit group.

😊 I now know why plum sauce is so expensive - peeling pounds of plums was no pleasure! 😂 However, in a tiny town with no local alternatives, I stuck to it, and wow, the aroma and taste of better ingredients, including 5 spice powder, was worth it! #plumsauce #dippingsauce

💜 Shopping for Korean+ ingredients, I again wondered why the fruit milks are so expensive. Little did I know when searching for a recipe... a favorite #kpop idol also likes #bananamilk ☺️

🍁 Autumn spices (cloves, cinnamon, etc) make delicious, summer #pickles, too. The #watermelon rind pickles I made last week are ready and really tasty.

🇰🇷🎶 Can't wait! First ever #Kpop concert planned: #Kai from #EXO in September.

🚉 Quick trip to #Chicago - lucky that #KPOP NARA, Sweet Bean 🍰 ( #Taiwanese) and 🍔 Bar with 2 items from my local foods list were all in a quick loop from the S. Shore Museum Campus stop. 1st taste of fried #pickles for me + a Sprecher #rootbeer float for J.

Another #Chicago weekend is coming up; hooray! Searching for Chicago pickles usually brings up their style of hotdog, which we first tasted recently at Fatso's Last Stand in #UkrainianVillage. I'll request less celery salt next time. Now, I'm trying to find artisan #pickle makers, #vinegar too.

🍱 Final #pickle prep for the holiday weekend. Trying out my new pickle press, I halved Anne Danahy's 'Refrigerator Zesty Zucchini Pickles' recipe. I cut the #zucchini into sticks instead of discs, since I often use pickles in #kimbap. Fritzi, as usual, supervised. 🐈

Signs placed (I masked the project name). 🤞🏻 Fingers crossed that US and other #solar projects continue being built and providing local jobs and money for #rural areas. #pollinatorfriendly 🐝🐞🦋

My first time tasting #jicama. I made Radish and Jicama #Pickles tonight. The jicama was difficult to peel; using a sharp knife worked. Other ingredients: carrots, onion, garlic, white and apple cider vinegars, cilantro - rests on top of the vegetables in the jar (the recipe did not explain why).

My new favorite pickle, sweet #musaengchae, is already running low (it's delicious in #kimbap), so I made a new batch tonight, supervised by Fritzi. The recipe is from K. Solomon's book, "Asian Pickles". I'll try the spicy version when Korean radish (mu) is in stock. #pickles #daikon #carrots

🇰🇷📺 I'm ready to start a new show and follow the bsky butterflies to #firstnightwiththeduke 🍿

🍉I'm from the southern U.S. but have never had #watermelon rind #pickles. One recipe says to use only the white part, another cook likes a little pink. Seemed easier not to remove all the pink, so I'm trying that option. Must refrigerate 1 week before eating, just in time for a #july4 picnic 🍱.