Right where I left off plus the almost daily contest: Free cards!

 The winner last night was RJ.

Like the title says I'm picking up "right where I left off".

Looks like I scanned a CRUSADE Holo parallel by mistake (not the only time I did it) no worries as I have the base card too and have already swapped them out in the set build. That bottom row looks pretty good.

ELITE needs.

LIMITED needs and another Wander.

ESSENTIALS, LUMINANCE, and MAGNITUDE (WHICH ARE ACETATE CARDS).

See I played with them just once though.

Closing out with MARQUEE and PHOENIX. The Marquee are really nice looking cards, and look another Wander.

Just having a little fun.

 Last night's winner was Night Owl. He's on a roll.

As promised yesterday, I am going to play around with this one particular Chronicles brand/set.

In the last scan yesterday there was a card from Clear Vision, but you really couldn't tell it was an acetate card. The same is for the set above: Clearly Donruss. It too is an acetate set, but you can't tell it from the scan. It shows a white border which is really not there. The white coloring comes from the top of my scanner.

This bothered me a lot. Even more than no logos which I can not do anything about. But, the backing I can. I had two spiral notebooks laying near me when scanning the cards. Right off I knew one was darker than the other. Those are the two scans above.

After those two I remembered there is a box of "scrapbooking" papers from my mom's stuff that I was going to donate and just haven't got around to that trip. I have made many of trips already, and just a few things left to take. The papers is just one box of what was 6 or 7 boxes of misc. colored or decorated paper.

Now I am having a little fun.

That particular gray looks pretty good as a border.

These polka dots reminded immediately of those gimmicky Gold Star sets that Topps has been doing the last few years. (Blue Stars and Orange Stars, etc).

This one definitely has a 70's vibe to it like Upper Deck Decades.

I could have done this all night as there must have been a hundred plus different designs/colors. But alas, I had my little bit of fun. Now to finish off the rest of this set that I got without any additional backing.

Alright, that was enough. I will move onto the next sets tomorrow with more new to me cards.

I had to rip some. FREE cards tonight get your FREE cards tonight.

 The winner last night was: Tom T. (Angels in Order)

Now what do I have for tonight? Well, actually all week. I've been to Wally World quite a few times since I bought those few packs of the Chronicles. Waiting for them to reload. They did and last Friday I bought all of the "packs" These are the 15 card packs crazy to pay 6.98 for 15 cards (about .50 each), but that is really the best deal on these suckers. I know a lot of folks don't do the logoless and bland product, but hey....

I got a boatload of new to me cards for the set build including some sets that I had not pulled yet.

I'm only posting the needed cards, but I'd like to remind you that the correlation is amazing. I bought 22 packs this go around. The Braves come first, then the set build, and lastly the PC. After those only a dozen or so dupes. 

Above are the Certified and Classics I needed.

Here are the base Chronicles I needed.

You can't tell very well with 1 Clear Vision (acetate- see through), more on that in a minute (okay 24 hrs). Contenders Optic needs. I am stopping here for tonight, because the next batch I decided to have a little fun.....Playing around with the next set.

Masonic Monday: John Wayne plus the almost daily free baseball card giveaway.

 The winner Friday night was Night Owl.

So we are moving the Masonic Monday out west, so to speak. John Wayne is just one of several cowboys (actors) that have graced the covers of these booklets. I will scatter them here and there.

I have my Uncle's Masonic bible.

There ya go pardner, next week's episode is out of this world!

My garage: An Update.

The winner last night was: The Lost Collector. It's been awhile for AJ to pull in a prize.

I've been home now for 10 weeks. I have worked my butt off most of the time. I slacked off for a couple of weeks twice now. But I am still making tremendous progress. You may remember that I had ordered 12 bookshelves/cases and that 8 of them were on backorder. Well, those 8 came in and I have put 6 of those together. Inside my garage is basically the same as it has been for a month now. I am still waiting on my shed to come which could still be 3 weeks or so. 

The shed will be placed in my backyard. This is what it looked like from the street before I cut down the trees.

The pile of roots you see is where I plan on placing my shed. The house you see (behind the fence) is where my brother is staying for the next two years. The fence belongs to my neighbor who is renting the house to my brother.

 

This is some random views after the trees were down taken from my patio.

The street view with the trees gone and the area scraped, raked and bush hogged. The grass is already springing back up from the raking, and I already had to mow the rest of the yard (and my brother's). Nearly 90 today (87). Spring is in the air and I love it. 

The left side looking in.

The left center.

This group is what the inside of the garage looked like after I placed the first 4 bookcases inside. The view above is the right side view. If you look all the way in the back up top you will see a section of duct work with a circular "thing" in the center. That is a diffuser which is supposed to help remove humidity and cool/heat at the same time. I am not sure it works that well, but will have to wait until the summer to see how it goes.

This is a view after I placed a desk inside the garage which is where I have been working for the last month. You can also see that most of the moving boxes and tubs have been unpacked. Remaining are about 6 tubs and of course all of the baseball cards storage boxes which those will always remain in the boxes. However, I have 5 bakery racks about 6' high that house the majority of them today.

Here are the original two racks that I got from my Uncle Fred. I ordered 3 more and have already filled them up and still have 5K count boxes to store. I do have a a chrome storage shelf for those, I just haven't been able to empty what is on it currently as that task requires my shed.

Changing colors (text) here as is appropriate for what I am about to say. A wrinkle has been thrown into the mix. Turns out some of my reasons for not building an addition to my house was correct. Besides costing 350% more than quoted just 3 years ago (which is a really big deal and the #1 reason for not adding on). The 2nd reason was I know my daughter, and figured she would take off by the time it was done. Long story short: she is supposed to move here stuff out of the house and into storage this weekend (although I am doubting). She has already been staying at her mom's place for the past two weeks. It wasn't that I enforced any rules that she couldn't live with. My rules are simple: leave my stuff alone. That's it. No, the problem was that she wanted me to follow here rules, yeah that wasn't going to happen EVER. My house, no rules apply to me period. I was patient with her, but figured all along that she would last about 3 months, eh she made 60 days. No need to get into any particulars, but looks like my original plans for my house are going to take effect. IE: cards inside the house.... all of them. Garage: will once again be headed to a man cave with the pool table, dart board, poker table, and a BAR! Breweriana and other beverage memorabilia all around as well as my vintage board games (highlighted with the baseball of course). 

On a personal note, I will miss my daughter and my grandson (already do), but she says they will come by on Thursdays and Sundays after church. That will be nice but I remember how 24 yo think, so if that does happen it won't last for long most certainly if something else comes up, lol. 

So that is one heck of an update!

Sport Lots part two and the free stuff too

 The winner last night was: Bo

This part of the Sport Lots order are my Braves PC guys.

No idea why I hadn't acquired these before now, but it is done now.

I am still a few cards shy of the 582 Montgomery Braves (2 more at the bottom). I wasn't going to pay a premium for cards that I basically have a several times each already. I can patiently wait for the few that I need to drop to a much lower price.

There are the rest of the Cosmic Chrome Braves (1 more at bottom).

My A&G Braves. See I can be patient.

I have started inputting my Braves dupes into TCDB (a project that will never really end). I sorted a lot of them into brands and have inputted Donruss, Fleer, and Topps Flagships. I'm working on the Bowman flagship now. Then onto Upper Deck, Score, and Pinnacle flagships. After those are entered I will start on the off sets from the above mentioned brands. Topps off sets will be last as there are at least 5,000 of those to be sorted by sets and then years. I still have Braves dupes that are sitting in tubs. I will eventually get those out and sort them too. Not in a big rush on those just yet.

I plan on doing a progress report for garage tomorrow night. At least that is the plan right now. 

Sports Lot part one.

 Last night's winner was: RJ

I got another order in from SL about two weeks ago. I will break it up into two posts.

The Chrome Cosmic cards do look pretty cool. I picked up all of the Braves, but you'll have to wait until tomorrow to see the rest.

Same can be said with the 582 Montgomery cards. The Braves I'm showing tonight are the non-PC guys. The rest will be tomorrow.

Fleer Tiffany Braves.

Almost completed the 2002 Super Team Braves. 

See ya tomorrow night.