Found Something

I know it's been awhile but I haven't received anything in the last little while so it's all been quiet. Yesterday I went to the eye specialist. The one I was suppose to go see last week but forgot too.Everything is good my eye pressure is where he wants it I just got to keep up the drops more less for the rest of my life. He thinks I might have Glaucoma but since it was caught so early everything will be okie dokie as long as I keep up with the drops. So anyways that is about it for that. Today I did find a book signed by Rick Reilly who use to write a column for ESPN and has also Co-Wrote the screenplay for the George Clooney movie Leatherheads. I thought it was a pretty cool find. And it also ended my draught so I am happy.

Not A Whole Lot...

Not a whole lot has happened since my last BLOG about Ricky Skaggs. Most of the week the weather has been up and down. We've had snow we've had rain. It's been cold and it's been warm.I got a call Wednesday from my eye specialist. Apparently I had an eye appointment for that day and we totally forgot about and didn't even see it written on the calender. My wife explained this to the lady who said it's happens. So I go this week instead.
Today while looking through some used books in the store a menu from Don Cherry's Grapevine fell out and low and behold it is signed and personalized to someone named Tim. As an autograph collector I don't care if it is personalized to someone else I just want the autographs. I am thinking that this is an old menu because the prices and way low and there is no web address on the menu like there is today. Either way it's nice to have another Don Cherry autograph to ad to my collection.

Ricky Skaggs

I went down to the Theater to try and get Ricky Skaggs. After about an hour I found out he wasn't there and wasn't going to be for a few more hours and it was pretty cold out there. So I decided to go down to the Hotel where the people who come to town stay. It was nice and warm in there compared to what it was like outside. I saw one guy and asked him if he was in Kentucky Thunder? The big guitar gave that away.We had a nice chat and he told me Ricky was coming down.So Ricky showed up and signed my album and insert and said I don't want to see these on Ebay. I told him I don't sell I love collecting autographs then he says oh as a hobby? I said yes. Then he looked at the album and said you had this along time. The date on the album is 1982 so yeah it has been around for a long while. Afterwards we drove to my nieces place and I showed it to her and she is like 'Who is that?' so I tried to explain it to her with no luck. So I let it go then I said next IP chance will be Randy Bachman and she said who's that? I am like REALLY!!!!!!I said you heard the song American Woman right? yeah..well he wrote it..Oh...with no look of interest ..OK I'm outta here,,on  the way home I told the wife..I should have said Paul McCartney

Last Day Of Winter Find and stuff.

Last! day of Winter and the sun was sining giving off a little warmth. We decided to go for a drive and pick up a few things that were needed. Along the way while I was stopped at a light there was a lot of smoke coming this car. It was getting louder and the smoke although white it was still thick enough to block out the cars behind it. You could smell it burning. I think it was the motor. Instead of getting out of the car which I would do because it looked like that sucker was going to catch fire. He waited for the green light and took off. My wife said to me that he pulled into the Mall parking lot.
We then ventured onto the thrift shop where I started flipping through the books looking for signed copies. I haven't been having much luck lately but today I found one. It' s a book by Wendel Clarke. Even before I opened it I knew it was probably signed because Wendel has been in Town countless times the last few years,Although I have about 16 things signed by Wendel I couldn't pass this up and to add it to my collection

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Paddy's Day everyone and it was a great day today The sun was shiny but a little on the cool side. We went to the library and picked up a DVD to watch and then went to Wal-Mart to grab a few needed things. Although I had already gotten the mail I didn't scan it til we got back.In the mail there was a good and a bad so I will start off with the bad..Awhile ago I wrote actor George Lazenby who played James Bond in one film 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'. Today I got my letter back RTS undeliverable. So I think old George must have moved or something. Oh well I had to try.

Now the good.I have been a fan of Helen Mirren for a long while and I have seen many of her movies like 'Teaching Mrs Tingle', 'Hitchcock', 'The Queen' and many more. I had heard she was doing a show on Broadway in New York City so I took the chance of writing to her at her play in New York City. Well today my luck paid off. Helen sent me a personalized signed playbill from her show. This one will be going on my wall sometime soon. I have 2 Playbills on our wall at all times and I do changed the Playbills from time to time. This will be the next one up.

First Day Cover Display

I thought I would show and tell about something else today other then an autograph. In 2012 the CFL Grey Cup celebrated it's 100 Anniversary and for the occasion Canada Post came out with stamps for every team and also 1st day cover envelope with a cancelled stamp from the team. I really liked them so I went to a few post offices before I was able to get all 8 teams and a CFL envelope as well and a pane of stamps. In 2014 Ottawa got a CFL team whcih they called the Ottawa Redblacks so they issued a stamp and a 1st Day cover as well for them which I went and picked up and added it to my display. I had a little room left in my display so I added the First Day Cover , One of the cancelled postcards. There are 4 in the set of post cards and also a pane of stamps. My wife and I put it all together and hung it up on the wall. I think it looks really good.

A Nice Day

It was a nice Friday the 13th. The sun was shining and although it was a little chilly in the shade the sun felt great. We went to a thrift shop which I like doing and there was a signed 8*10 of Cory Holmes who was a Tigercat. Now everyone who knows me knows I am a TiCat fan. Well whoever owned it before ruined it because they Plaque  it.. I can understand that they want their autographs to last forever but if you plaque it you ruin it. DO NOT PLAQUE AUTOGRAPHS!!
Now as I move on to today's mailbox we just found out that the mailman has been running late this week and the mail I got this morning was actually yesterday's mail. So in today's mail I received my cards back signed and personalized from Penny Johnson Jarald who is on the show CASTLE




To add to my surprise of getting Penny there was also another surprise in the envelope. Penny had also enclosed a signed photo of CASTLE himself Nathan Fillion. I have been a fan of his for a long time and his shows like Firefly and DRIVE which now I am glad never survived a season because if it had Castle would have never been. Well maybe it would have just a different actor as Castle..Nice day...