Three recent events with the US Postal Service:

First, we had no mail in our box today.

None.

Not even junk mail, or bills. I seriously can't remember any other delivery day that has happened. Excluding the days when the highways were closed, which they haven't been.

And secondly, yesterday I received a Thank You card.

For attending a meeting.

Really. Seriously. Someone sent me a thank you card. For. Attending. A meeting. I didn't think I'd contributed that much to the conversation.

Methinks maybe some Westerners are just a little too polite.

And lastly, we received our annual letter from the convent in Massachusetts. And while I have never met this cousin-in-law who is a Sister, and barely grasp how she fits in the wife's family tree...

Being a non-Catholic who, to my knowledge, has never met a real, live Nun, I find this incredibly cool.

And we now know the status of the abbey's improvement projects and Shuffle Sunday. And may have to sample their candy...

(And if you care, I filled in the entry for Ground Hog Day.)