The further adventures of Geri Sullivan, Girl Homeowner [Some of everything, part 3]

What's wrong with this picture? Well, there's the fact that I had to use a flash to take this photo at 4:15 pm a good six weeks before the winter solstice. That's wrong no matter how you cut it. But that's been true every other November 13th I've lived here, and in each of those four Novembers, there's been a mailbox secured to the top of the post'n'platform you see here. Ahem.

Wednesday afternoon I walked up the driveway to pick up the mail only to discover that not only was there no mail there, there was no mailbox, either. WTF?

I always figured that the hunk of granite next to the mailbox was deliberately placed. I'm sure it's saved many a drive-by mailbox crushings in the years it's been there. The rock and the sturdy metal post are not attractive targets for the sorts of vandals who led the Wales Librarian to hang her mailbox on chains from a sturdy nearby tree after losing several mailboxes to the bored youth of western Massachusetts. Alas, the Gentle Rock of Persuasion couldn't stop one or more someones from simply yanking the my box off its platform and making off with it. ( Better to lose an empty mailbox than a full one )

[Baaa] Poor Wyoming

I named 49 US states in 10 minutes

I had the first 47 in 4 minutes, and the next 2 with 4 minutes to spare. I felt foolish when it took me until there were less than 30 second to go before noticing there was a silhouette of the US map right there on the quiz page. It would have helped me visualize the missing chunk if I'd used it from the start. No, I didn't google a thing, or even think of doing so until now.

I was pretty sure I was missing one of those squarish states in the west or southwest, though it could have just as easily been a small state here in the east or one of the states down near Arkansas and Tennessee. My first hunch was right. Sorry, Wyoming!

Hey, at least my memory hasn't turned to complete rubbish, much as it often seems otherwise.

Thanks for the link, mizzlaurajean!