Well, it didn’t turn out to be a very good evening for the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. I was afraid that might happen, but not by the score of 49-15!

Quarterback Carson Palmer, after having two knee surgeries, does not have the mobility he once had. The young Carolina Panthers’ defense was too much for him and his linemen who were supposed to protect him.

I wonder how 40-year-old Peyton Manning will fare against the young Panthers and Cam Newton in the Super Bowl.

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Congratulations to the newest list of inductees that will be installed into the Lower Verde Valley Hall of Fame on March 30.

They include Erna Conroy Charles, Christine Colley, Kate Pruett, Roger Riggert Dori Wittrig and Dr. C. T. Wright, all from Fountain Hills, and Merideth Hale of Rio Verde. The Fort McDowell. Inductee for 2016 has not yet been selected.

This year’s Legacy Award winner is the “Arizona Kid,” Carlos Hadaway. The Western artist has quite the personality. He has spoken at several events we have had at the River of Time Museum, and his house is like a museum, too. It is filled with cowboy and Western movie memorabilia. He opened it to the public as a fundraiser for the museum a couple of years ago.

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I talked to my granddaughter, Brylee, in New Jersey this past weekend. Using Facetime, she showed me the snow piled up in the back yard of their home in West Orange.

They had over two feet of snow from last week’s storm. She asked me, ”Don’t you wish you were here, Grampa.”

I told her, “I’d love to see you in person, but I only like to see snow on the mountains in the distance from my back yard.”

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I talked with baseball writer, and former Times staffer, Charlie Vascellaro, on Sunday morning and he also received two feet of snow in Baltimore where he now lives.

He is working on copy for the spring training section of our Play Ball edition that will be mailed to every household in Fountain Hills and inserted in every copy of The Times Feb. 24.

After we talked about the special edition, we got to talking about life in early- day Fountain Hills. He told me how his first job was with Bashas’ and how he got fired from there. He was mainly a carryout person, but one of his jobs was to round up the grocery carts that would roll down the sloped parking lot towards the MCO complex which is now a medical complex on Palisades Boulevard.

Being a fun-loving teenager at the time, he found he could ride the grocery carts, by standing up in one and guide it by shifting his weight from side to side similar to riding a surfboard. He then would ride it to the end of the parking lot and start from there to gather up the runaway carts.

He said one day Eddie Basha, the company CEO came out to see the manager, Leonard Borsuk.

“I guess Eddie saw me riding one of the carts and I was fired the next day.”

He later became the caped crusader, The Wizard of Waste, But that’s another early-day Fountain Hills story I can tell you about Charlie at a future time.