A little Holiday spirit and some Free baseball cards

 The winner last night was: Derek..... back to back!

Now, to kick off this holiday week with a little Holiday spirit. After all, it has been a good week for me. I am home, although I had to drive back to Valdosta this past weekend just to drip the faucets as it was 20+ degrees Sunday night and might even hit the teens on Christmas morning (might even snow in Ocala). Not that I consider that a good day (I prefer shorts and flip flops on Christmas). My daughter from Ft. Myers is on call this weekend so she drove up and had lunch with me yesterday, exchanged gifts (alas the cards posted tonight). Making progress in my garage and in the house here to bring my cards home. Even got to watch my other daughter make cookies with my grandson (I helped by eating a couple). I got a 2nd estimate to cut, clear, and grind up the small forest growing in my back yard and that one was half the cost of the 1st. (Always get a 2nd estimate or opinion). Just a great week, I could throw out several more blessings but I'm sure that you want to see some baseball cards.

So as a gift from my oldest I got cards (I also got some from my youngest too). As a reward to my self I matched my kids gift, :). The shelves were loaded again at my local just around the corner Walmart. I picked up 8 boxes of this years 2022 Topps Holiday. 

Those are the Braves team above. Included is 1 metallic.

There are 19 Ornaments this year.

I got 1 double relic. There are 49 in this years set. Odd I know, but oh well. I obviously got my complete set done. I didn't scan the set and you know why. I will say this, Topps mixed it up some. There are tons of rookies/prospects if you will that weren't in the base or update sets. Heck a few Braves I never heard of until I opened these. I am lacking just 3 cards for a complete 2nd set that I will probably have a "SPECIAL" giveaway for in the coming year (maybe it will be complete by then). It would be complete now but my PC's and other mini collections come first, you understand. 

The SP, SSP, and SSSP (sp, rare, super rare) variations is always a chase set for me. Of course I have yet to complete any of them to date. Below you will see the ones I pulled from these 8 boxes (and no I didn't even come close to taking half of the boxes on the shelf). LOADED, love it. Another great thing this week and yesterday was just Monday!

These are the 1 SP's plus the first two below.

The cards after the Red Metallic (1:92 odds) are the SSP (rare).

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!