Visitors, Updates, and some incoming.

 Starting the week off with a notice. Longtime blog reader Bill Kearney is in the house! Well, he will be on Thursday. Bill and I met up at a show in Jacksonville in recent years. I take it that he visits the great state of Florida every year during Spring Training. He said he caught a game this past weekend. Also of note another reader from way up north (Canada) Derek is also here visiting Disney. Not sure if he will get the chance to come by before returning home. He is welcome to though. It seems like their time is pretty much jam packed. There is still a chance I get drive down to where he is staying for dinner, we'll if time allows on both ends.

In another realm of my recent (this weekend): As I mentioned last week, I went to Ormond not once but twice on back to back days. I busted my keester all day (and night) Friday. I got the house in rambles, which is funny with company coming, but hopefully they'll understand. I did get the Star Wars stuff in it's new display. However, I was not able to include my Star Wars card binders with them. The curio display case is FULL! Over full even, but looks good if I have to say so myself. I had to move (relocate) 5 book cases and one of them still needs major work re-organizing the binders for it. I hope to have that done before Bill gets here. Two of the bookcases are eye sores (the ones with actual books on them), but for now it is what it is. I also had to relocate my mother's China Hutch. That is done completely and hidden out of sight, except when I am in my bedroom, lol.

I also ventured down to Clearwater for that monthly show. This time it was only 50/50 with Pokemon (slabbed Pokemon and unopened boxes mainly). I got to dig through some way over priced baseball boxes. I actually pulled 500 cards from the boxes, and because we couldn't even get close on the price, I put 350 of those back. I could have put them all back, but I really felt bad for the guy and I was trying to help him out. He has that same problem Justin used to have (thank goodness he turned things around). I offered the guy an opportunity to come get some "stock" from my garage, but he just kept making excuses....some people will always struggle. I bought what I bought, but pretty sure I won't do it again. I made a very nice 1 card deal down there. I didn't get anything from Justin this time as he pretty much had football with the exception of 2 10 player auto/relic book slabs. Numbered to 10 and book for about 5K. That is not the kind of cards in my budget for sure.

Now let's show off some cards.

These 8 d/c Ornaments were an Ebay purchase. I am now down to just 3 more to complete the set. The list BTW is under set builds, then MISC. and down at the bottom of that page. 

This Gold filigree numbered to /50 came via OCTer Bob D. It is just the 2nd one from this set (and all sets that include them I think).

There you have the current state of my card world. I do have an entire week's if not more of posts from the two Ormond visits. Today I got another package of stuff (4 auctions/BIN) from an Ebay seller and that gave a nice boost to the Atlanta Braves new to me cards. Got another package today from a different OCTer (former blogger of Nolan's Dugout) Kyle D. Those were set build needs (all Pacific brands). Not sure if I will scan them, probably not. I need to get back to sorting and "cleaning up".

Have a great night!