Another blogger(http://sparepartsandpics.blogspot.com/) (he's practically a neighbor and lives up in 29 Palms) pointed me to A Rural Journal and she has a 52 week challenge. This week's challenge is "mail". Hmmm...I mulled over this challenge overnight. My town, being fairly modern, doesn't have a historical or even interesting post office. Frankly, it looks like a prison (...shudder...). One year, we had a PO box (I forget why...) and I HATED it! I hated going to the post office, I lost the key...you name it, I just did NOT enjoy the experience of having a PO box. I think it was because our daughter had a credit card lifted from our mailbox (thinking back...). I notice that a lot of my neighbors have the big mailboxes built into either rock or stone columns and mailboxes that LOCK. I think we should do that. The guy across the street does that for people and I'm going to ask him to do one for me, although I love my horse-covered mailbox! (see 1st photo)...You see how STERILE our post office is? I mean, would you enjoy going there? I hear that Redlands, CA has an older one, but that's 60 miles away! I love quaint, little post offices and I think I'll start taking photos of some of them. I wish I'd done that while we were in Arizona! Sunday Series 52 for August 28, 2011. To see other participants in SS 52, please go to:
http://www.aruraljournal.com/2011/08/sunday-series-52-week-2.html
