Night Owl Cards

I can't keep up, guys. Spring fever must have hit collectors around the country because envelopes containing cards have been flying all over the home nest the last couple of weeks. The card desk ran out of space for incoming envelopes for the first time in a long time, so I tried to scan a bunch of the recent goodies to clear some room -- which is a bit tricky right now because my scanner is at close to floor level and some recent minor surgery has made it difficult to reach upward or downward -- but the envelopes only kept coming to the door! There are at least two more that I need to get to and then two more packages hit my mail box today. Good gosh, I need a staycation to handle all of this. I'm going to make a little space for myself right now by showing off some of the generous items here. I want to start with an envelope from Fuji because a whole bunch of bloggers have posted recently about their envelopes from him and I know you were beginning to think I di...

Another simple post during a very busy week (but it's almost over!) A few days ago, someone I know made a reference to the year 1919. I don't even remember what she was talking about, mostly because when she said "1919," my brain immediately flashed to "Black Sox Scandal." And then I started thinking about how weird it was that someone would talk about the year in another context outside of the Black Sox. You mean people actually think about years without baseball being the first thing that pops in their head? So I did a little experiment. I decided to think of every year since 1901 and write down the first thing that came to my head about those years. This wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. There are some years in which I couldn't think of anything, baseball-related or not. So I started giving myself a 30-second time limit. If I couldn't think of a year-related concept, then I just placed a question mark in there and moved on....