Surprise Mail Day - Johnny's Trading Spot

A big thank you goes out to John at Johnny's Trading Spot. Have not been doing much with my collection lately other than a TCDb trade back in September that I'm still waiting to arrive and a blaster of 2025 Heritage that I picked up from Walgreens on the way home two weeks ago.

The lack of additions has mainly been due to 60+ hours as week at work, and fall baseball / high school football games. Looking forward to a slow down once the cold weather hits to get caught up at work, and also caught up at home.

One other nice surprise is that my wife and I celebrated our 19th anniversary this week -- so tonight was a nice dinner at our favorite nearby sushi restaurant. She has reminded me several times that for our 20th we are taking a trip somewhere "big" that neither she nor I have traveled to. Switzerland is one of the suggestions but we'll be starting the research this fall!

The card package from John was a nice mix of some modern, some vintage, and some autographs! I'm not sure how he knew that I did not have the Bill Stoneman but that was greatly appreciated! I'm down to Ken Holtzman, Ramon Hernandez, Clarence Jones, Jon Boccabella, Dick Nen, and the League Leaders to knock this Cubs Team set out. 

I also really like the look of the Aramis Ramirez Upper Deck - it's a great design.

The DJ LaMahieu rookie is also really appreciated - this period was kind of my black hole in collecting and watching baseball, so I did not even realize he was a Cubbie for a very brief time.

Let's hope we see a nice Cubs win tonight for a date with Greg (Night Owl's) Dodgers!