Wacky Wednesday.

 Short and sweet straight to the cards.

The cards speak for themselves.

Have a great night.

The last trip to Ormond: the last trip.

 This post title is literally. I haven't been happy with really any of the trips (1 1/2 hrs each way) the entire year. Even last year had a huge price bump, and then doubled again this year. The whole idea behind this blog is about the deals. DEALS! If'n there ain't none, then thar ain't nun! In all fairness, I probably will visit the store once or twice a year just to see what I can bring back home, but I'll be sticking with the DEAL side of things whenever I do go. You can't blame me, with the new LCS right here in town saving me at min. 3 hours per trip, then add the $25.00 in gas. Yeah, even with the fact that there isn't dime boxes at the new place, there are quarter boxes and I can balance those two things out without leaving town. 

Now, I believe there will be a total of three posts from that last trip. As indicated I didn't get the deals I have come to appreciate..... I really did appreciate the KnT shop, I pimped them all of the time including getting people to go there like Jeremy who just went there last week. This year the prices have been more inline with what I see posted on other blogs. 

Starting off with Braves of course, but just the one scan above. Funny thing is I could have skipped these as I already purchased them and are sitting in my Sport Lots box. As for the rest of the scans, GOTCHA, they are Braves too. 

 

That completes the Braves portion of the last trip to Ormond. Two more posts to go then I can finally start showing off the stuff I picked up from the 3 trips to Grand Slam right here in Ocala. There are grand total of 80 scans from those trips. (not counting the 27 photos I took). I will certainly spready those posts out to cover the rest of July, and probably into to August too.

Have a good night everyone.

TEASER: YOU WERE WARNED

 I promised another teaser about that "new shop". Well, tonight you get it. That first week I made three separate trips to the store. I did not go at all last week nor do I plan on going this week. I might take a Saturday trip to Clearwater though, we'll see.

Anyways: get your popcorn ready as you browse "Grand Slam Collectibles".

Yeah, this greets you outside the store. I know it's supposed to Michael Jordan, but look close at that face....reminds me of the "head" zombie in the movie "I am Legend" starring Will Smith.

Immediately upon walking in this was on my right side. I spent 4 hours digging through those boxes on my first trip.

This is a view from the front door at the register.  The wooden tables on the right are basically cards from a dollar to roughly $100.00, they put cards $150.00 and above in the glass cases that run the full length of both sides of the shop. The baseball bins are what you see with football on the opposite side, basketball towards the center (on the far end), and non-sport on the end you can not see in this pic.

Jerseys on the front windows. There are more jersey's at the back of the store as you will see later.

The kid in the blue t-short works there. His name is Dylan and he rang me out on my 2nd trip (he is new in the business, but knows cards- he has some learning to do). I spent the 4 hours from trip two at that wooden bin and pulled a LOT! (posts coming in about a week on those). When he added them up, discounted like $7.00 plus no charge on maybe a dozen cards. I quickly had the shop manager (my old trading buddy from a dozen years ago) help out, and a little back and forth and I got $150.00 knocked off the total. Don't get me wrong Dylan is super cool and really knows sports cards- all sports great to chat with through the time I spent and will be spending there.

By the way, that shoe box with some 2025 Donruss laying on top is what I was buying that day and yes it is full.

This is the very back of the shop (customer area). There is storage further back behind a closed door (that's also where the bathroom is). You can see the boxes of comics and those jersey's I mentioned earlier.

This shot is that first aisle again but from the back of the shop where you can see the Hot Wheel section.

The Hot Wheels across from the previous photo and the glass cased stuff.

The next aisle also has Hot Wheels stuff on the back end too. 

The next aisle over has helmets, pretty much every one of them autographed too.

Here you can see the autographed stuff hanging on the walls and glass encased vintage stuff. You can see vintage games in the back too.

Autographed bats.

Across from the bats are vintage metal lunch boxes. This is where I found that 1977 Star Wars that I bought on trip 1. On the top are un autographed mini helmets.

Here is a closer view of the stuff in the case (from a few pics before).

One of a few Star Wars sections within the shop. This one is next to the bats I showed. Inside the case some really old vintage Barbie's and G.I. Joes.

Some misc. items.

This view again comes from the back on that aisle with the lunch boxes. This is the sealed unopened junk wax sections. The baseball is furthest away towards the store front. They have so much of this stuff that cases are just sitting on the floor. No wonder why they are planning on double the size of the shop. 

Lots more G.I. Joe and other stuff.

More Star Wars.

This pic should have been a couple of spots before.

This just the baseball junk wax section.

On the very top is a $1995.00 Star Ward vintage piece. Way out of my budget, I get squimished at 10% of that price. Some non sport boxes.

Some complete sets in boxes and binders with more non sport boxes too.

Vintage non-sports cards like Star Wars and the Topps Presidents set. I see some original GPK in the upper left too. 

The middle aisle stuff.

The other side of middle aisle.

I'm closing out the shop preview with the signed SHAQ shoe.

I am looking forward to see this shop grow, but I assure you this place is busy non-stop 10am to 6pm SEVEN days a week. In just the few months they have been open they already have a HUGE customer base ie: regulars and as they expand what the shop does to accommodate them kind of gets me a little excited. Although I have already done pretty much any damage (to my wallet) that the future holds, I can see me having a day there every month to dig through the "quarter" boxes. The best part of which is a 15 minute drive versus 1-2 hours each way. Yeah.....I'm loving it. Saves not just the hours of my time, but the gas too! 

They have a website but it really sucks right now, they are just now starting to work on it, slowly. One day they'll get there. 

I hope you enjoyed the teaser! I still have the rest of trip 1, plus trips 2 and 3 to post about after I finish with the last trip over to Ormond.

Saturday Shadow Shots!

 I nearly forgot to write and post today. My daughter Hunter and her son Elijah were here over night (threw me off  for a moment). They might even stay over again tonight. 

Here are today's shadows. Let's see what you see.

I see a Manta Ray swimming by two dolphins.

Keeping with the under ocean theme.... I see a shark with mouth open getting ready to swallow some fish.

I don't see a darn thing, but wow what a great shadow.

Enjoy what is left of the weekend!

Happy Independence Day!

 I will be foregoing my usual annual post today. I didn't get to re-organizing the 4th of July binder. I guess I now have a year to get it ready for the BIG 250th celebration!

I wish everyone out there a very fun, filling, and safe holiday!

Surely, you didn't think I wasn't going to miss an opportunity for our flag.

Or for a couple of birthday boys.

And especially not the fireworks!

God bless the United States of America!

These are not Braves

 My brother and I had a great night at trivia.....we won! The last two times we placed third out of 14 teams each week. We were in the money, but didn't wager anything on the final question. (two of those teams are 11 people teams), but most teams are 4-5 people. So even when we don't place first I am usually happy.....my brother is a different story lol. 

Now, let's get to the set build section of that last ComC order.

I finally updated that set build list for the embossed. You can find it listed under set builds, drop down to misc.

Some more Pacific ornaments.

The Topps Holiday sets, variations, relics, and ornaments are also listed under the misc. sets on my website.

There you have it. I wish everyone a very happy and blessed 4th of July! Be safe, enjoy!

Wacky Wednesday

 I've been busy busy busy this week. Sorting, data entry, and of all things going through my garage boxes. I am nuts....not really just doing what should have been done a decade ago. I am in the process of separating the stuff inside those boxes. In other words I have begun another sorting project in addition to what I already have to do.....We've all said if not most of us anyway that sorting never ends. After making three trips to that "new place" last week, and yes I did go Saturday for the cards and coffee (I ate 4 donuts-oops). Spent another 4 hours there that day too. Only bought a handful of cheap cards, but I did grab a whole bunch of "other stuff" for my Braves collection. I'm not telling what they were....at least not yet and this isn't the teaser I mentioned last night either. More of a heads up. 

Now, let's get to some Wackiness.

The sidelines subset from the 1992 Pinnacle was an awesome idea. But, like many things more of a one and done.

Have a great night!

Third round of Braves ComC cards.

 Back to the blue font so maybe the Braves can win a couple more games. This post will be the last of the Braves pickups from that order. I will have a 4th post of non Braves for Thursday. Monday I am going to do another TEASER. 

Five more autos.

Seven more autos.

Closing the post out with two new relics.  Renaldo's drink matches the card or is that vice versa? I guess the old cliche of what came first the chicken or the egg comes to mind.

Have a great night!