Saturday June 7, 2008

 

 

LAMS Benefit Auction

Day 2

 

 

Our day began with breakfast under the big tent.

 

 

My first stop was the Landscape Auction

I purchased a few small containers of mint tea, seven red geraniums, two day lilies, and another plant whose name I forget.

 

 

We spent most of the day at the main auction, which altered between theme baskets, general merchandize, specialty items, artwork, and quilts.

 

 

Cathy, a LAMS secretary, and the main clerk at this auction, watches as her husband, John, sells an item.

 

 

Jere encourages me periodically by saying he enjoys my blog, so I made sure he gets to see a picture of himself holding up items for the auctioneer to sell.

 

 

Theme baskets are rarely a bargain at this auction.  I usually choose a few that I will bid on if the price is right.  I didn’t bid on any this year.

 

 

There were several pieces in the artwork category that I liked, but didn’t really know where to hang them – and at our age, we aren’t in need of anymore stuff.

 

 

 

 

The most difficult for me to resist buying were the P Buckley Moss prints.  I love her work.

 

 

Then it was time to go back to the big tent for lunch.  I am grateful that they have a very nice salad and fruit bar.

 

 

This was the cutest puppy.

 

 

Its sad eyes seemed to say, “This is so humiliating.  Won’t someone please buy me.”

 

 

This mini-gator was one of the specialty items, and demonstrated by these children.

 

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Toward the end of the day, it was announced that there was a fire truck on the lot, and a fireman was misting the children.

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I was hoping to get pictures of the misting, but they were rolling up the hose by the time I got there.  Then I noticed a lot of action in a low-lying area of the schoolyard.

 

 

It was a hot, humid, day, so maybe that is why some of the children had not gotten quite wet enough during the misting.

 

 

I would have liked to get closer, but did not want to risk getting splashed with muddy water.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Randy has to figure out what to do with his very muddy son.

 

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How does sitting at an auction all day make one so weary.  I am ready for bed.

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