Believe it or not, I have never been to a county fair. So I don’t have a story — I don’t think I even have 100 words — but I just had to post this wonderful image on the heels of Mr. Ed’s recent story on Hobbies, one of his being philately. (As in “Frankly, Natalie, I dig philately”).

Note the perforations…four different Forever first class stamps. So cool. Makes me want to write some letters so I can send them via snail mail.

(Did you know you can order stamps from the USPS online? It’s like an eye candy store!) 

Oh…100 words!

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RetroFlash – 100 words

The president of the fair was a local fixture, Bligh Dodds . . . and he was straight out of Sinclair Lewis.
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My first serious hobby was philately . . . I didn't know it as "philately" until Tom Lehrer rhymed it with Lady Chatterley.
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So, over the last 65 years, I have progressed from my room to my recliner and my shop, and I am as happy as a clam.
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