Night Owl Cards

Since Monday, we have received three feet of snow. I was off Tuesday and Wednesday. This was excellent news as far as avoiding digging my car out of the work parking lot. But it was lousy news for rest and relaxation. There was plenty of digging to do at home. There haven't been a lot of storms like this recently, but I do remember giant snowstorms in the '70s and then when I was in college in the '80s. And I remember a bunch of March snowstorms in the '90s. But it's been a good decade since a storm like this and us lake inhabitants get a little nostalgic when the snow is pounding down. What we forget is how difficult it is on your arms and your back. I can feel my arms whine even as I write this, which means I'm going to make this post as short as I can ... well, the night owl version of short anyway. Just before Christmas I received some great cards from Dave K. again. I already showed this fantastic Red Man Duke Snider card and the Mets team card t...

The fifth blog bat around asks us to brag a bit. "What is the best experience you have had acquiring cards or memorabilia?" OK, I'm gonna brag a bit. But first I'm going to address the question. The question implies that you actually DID something to acquire these cards or memorabilia. It assumes there is a story about "the process," a journey, an undertaking. Hopefully, it's an interesting story. Maybe it's funny or uplifting or fraught with danger and intrigue. But there is no "process" to my acquisition. I did absolutely, positively, 100 percent nothing to acquire a bunch of 1956 Topps cards. Sometimes, believe it or not, just raising your hand and saying, "I collect baseball cards!" is enough. So, here is my story. I mentioned it one other time on this post . But I want to go into a little more detail this time. My father worked for the city. He was in charge of the city's water supply. It was a job with a lot of respons...