Playing catch-up...got some cool stuff to cover.

Welcome back! Today was a long day of helping with Christmas cookies. Finally got around to opening today’s package about 15 before writing this.

Welcome back! Gonna slide this post in right under the wire.

Sorry for the missed day. It happens sometimes in the Advent Calendar. I always catch up though.

Thanks for joining me for Day 4. Today we have...

December 3rd...Welcome to day 3 of the Advent Calendar! Today, we have...

Thanks for joining me for Day 2. Today we have...

Another year has passed, and it’s time again for Roundbadge’s annual Hot Wheels Advent Calendar! For those who are new to our site, here’s the backstory. For everyone else...let’s see what’s new!

Shame that it’s been dumped on a different frame, but I still think it’s cool because I’m like that. I was so jazzed when I saw it after coming out of the grocery store. It was parked directly in front of my Taco, like this meeting was meant to be.

I found it a little surprising that, of all the 50th Anniversary Favorites, this is the one that was left behind. It was the only one in the store today.

...and found this. Actually, my FIL found it. He asked, “Hey, can you tell me what this car is?” It’s in a collapsing garage not far from their house. I kind of want to contact the owners of the house and make an offer.

We started planning this trip to Las Vegas in late 2017, but we settled on the date in January. Wondering what else might be going on that week, I discovered that the 50th Mint 400 would be run this weekend. Giddily, I informed the love of my life, whose birthday the trip would be celebrating, that we had an…

...and Oppo.

One of my coworkers saw my Hot Wheels work collection, and brought these in for me. She found them among things that had belonged to her father before he passed (a couple of years ago). These were made by a glass company in southern Ohio some years ago called Boyd Glass.

...are up NOW on the Kmart.com website. Don’t know how long they’ve been up, but I just managed to order mine.

I was brought home from the hospital in my parents’ first-gen Celica. My mom tells me I loved the car, and bid it a tearful goodbye when they traded it in ‘77 or ‘78.

Thanks for joining me on the final day of the 2017 Hot Wheels Advent Calendar. Welcome to Day 24!

Coming down to the wire! Welcome to day 23.