Has happened in my town in northwest Illinois forever, in early evening on Christmas Eve.

The Bears unexpected season has made me watch them regularly again, so thank you to your Broncos for your win!

Awesome album! I had it on cassette 😆

Happy birthday, Bentley! The party lamb is adorable! (As is Bentley!)

I’m just across the Mississippi River in the Illinois Quad Cities … and getting ready. Grocery store was much less crazy than I was expecting!

Same here in western Illinois, and no as well. Though I saw on FB someone post a screenshot of a winter storm warning for lake-effect snow coming to Chicago tonight and tomorrow — hopefully you will still be in suburbia for a while!

I am already looking forward to your spring Wrigleyville sunset pics!

Shouldn’t it be CST for tomorrow? We’re going back to standard time, right? Of course it will just be terrible regardless with the early darkness!

So tired of oppo taco … every single commercial break.

It seems like it’s come up a lot more this year, though.

I have been having knee issues lately (arthritis … yay for being a fiftysomething) and haven’t slept well the past several nights — but after seeing your post this morning bought some pain patches. Just the type of influencer you want to be, right? 😄

I remember Matt Morris saying after that game something along the lines of without him, none of Albert’s heroics that day would have mattered!

I used to have spring allergies, but now they seem to go from spring until fall. I am mad too.

Yes sir! It’s a close tie between the number of times I’ve rewatched that game and Game 6 of that World Series.

Had to go look at the AMF archives — be sure to read the comments too! aaronmilesfastball.com/2011/04/06/l...

Glad the Cards still do this, and how amazing for you to still be blogging and podcasting! Enjoyed reading about this year’s, but definitely appreciated the link to what you wrote about the first one! What a trip down memory lane. And I still am not a fan of Jim Hayes 😝

That is so lovely! I have heard that call on occasion in my neighborhood (in Quad Cities), but did not know what it was. So glad to now know.

Nice work!