3890 - Dexter, Oregon, United States of America

A busy household. The sender says they have five children, five big dogs, five cats, and only four geckos.

Dexter is found in west central Oregon and is an unincorporated community of almost 900 people. The original post office named it Butte Disappointment in 1848. It was renamed Dexter in 1975, by the postmaster's family, after the Dexter brand cook stove in their house.

A claim to fame for Dexter is the nearby Dexter Lake Club was used in the filming of the road trip scene in the movie Animal House.

The card is a great photo of Mount Hood (Wy'east) and Trillium Lake. Mount Hood is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range and a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It attracts 10 000 climbers a year and there is a year-round life-served skiing area, the only one in North America.

The United States Geological Survey estimates there is a 3 - 7% chance that Mount Hood will erupt in the next 30 years.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

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3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

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