{"id":8546,"date":"2005-10-15T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T17:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/10\/15\/sold.html"},"modified":"2005-10-15T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T17:50:05","slug":"sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/15\/sold.html","title":{"rendered":"Sold!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We did the church <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/14\/the_weekend_ahe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Harvest Auction dinner thing<\/a> last night, with Doyce and Jackie watching the girl (thanks, guys!).  A little bit less elaborate than the previous iteration (no band\/dancing), it was a fun evening.<\/p>\n<p>Well, first off, what sort of swag did we end up with?  A lot more than I&#8217;d expected.  I was only moderately diligent about updating our silent bids, but still ended up the winner on all but a couple of things I&#8217;d put in for &#8212; which meant ending up walking out with a lot of stuff in our arms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ice skating lessons for four.  Got this mostly for Katherine (who&#8217;s done a little bit of it on a field trip) and Margie (who enjoys doing it).  I&#8217;ve tried it and didn&#8217;t do well &#8212; but, then, I suppose I can take a lesson (offered by a parishioner who&#8217;s a gold medalist type).  So &#8230; anyone of our local crew interested in some of this action, since we have four slots total?\n<li>A big flannel blank with the US states on it.  For Kitten.<\/p>\n<li>A large floppy black cat stuffed animal.  For Kitten.<\/p>\n<li>A basket with a dozen or so interesting Beanie Babies.  For Katherine.  Hmmm.  Yes, that does look like a trend.  Well, Christmas is coming.<\/p>\n<li>A very pretty knit scarf for Katherine.<\/p>\n<li>Two nights in a condo just off Main St. in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townoffrisco.com\/visitors\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Frisco<\/a>.  For Margie and me (though the &#8220;sleeps two&#8221; could probably be stretched for Katherine, too).<\/p>\n<li>A home-cooked fried chicken and biscuits dinner for six.  This was a very hot item last time, and this time, too.  Yum.<\/p>\n<li>A dozen glass ornaments decorated by the 4th-5th graders at Sunday school, which are actually more more attractive than that description sounds.<\/p>\n<li>A set of gift cards to Panera, Blockbuster, and Starbucks.<\/p>\n<li>A coffee press for Margie.<\/p>\n<li>A very pretty water color that will probably end up in one of our bathrooms.<\/ul>\n<p>Total damage, $600.  Could have been a lot more if we&#8217;d won more of the trips\/accomodations folks had offered.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, Margie was offering up a couple of cooking things.  The &#8220;five weekday pre-prepped dinners for four&#8221; went for a steal at $85.  The gourmet dinner for six, though &#8230; well, it was hot enoyug<\/p>\n<p>Well, there were four full &#8220;gourmet&#8221; dinners that were offered as<\/p>\n<ol type=\"A\">\n<li>The Chinese for 10 (which I bid on &#8212; it came very highly touted) went for $250.\n<li>The Youth Group Gourmet Dinner for 8 beef tenderloin and &#8220;some kind&#8221; of pie) went for $200.<\/p>\n<li>Another person&#8217;s Gourmet Dinner for 8 (you provide the wine) went for $350.<\/p>\n<li>Margie&#8217;s Gourmet Dinner for <em>6<\/em> was auctioned last &#8230; and went for <em>$400<\/em>.  And a bargain at that.  Margie immediately huddled with the folks who won it, and everyone&#8217;s really jazzed over it (thought it likely won&#8217;t be until the New Year).<\/ol>\n<p>Good times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did the church Harvest Auction dinner thing last night, with Doyce and Jackie watching the girl (thanks, guys!). 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