Sunday June 7, 2009

 

 

LAMS Benefit Auction

Saturday, June 6

 

This is one of our favorite ” just sit and enjoy days” each year, because someone else is doing all the work.

 

 

We arrived in time for breakfast and the beginning of the auction.  Cerwin and Lydia enjoyed breakfast while I got our auction number.  The buffet breakfast is too much food for me, so I just purchased a cup of coffee and enjoyed the auction.  

  

 

Before long it was time for the landscape auction.  I usually get a few flowers for our flower beds.

 

 

 My only purchase this year – two beautiful hibiscus plants.

 

 

When leaving, I came upon Kristen (our daughter-in-law) taking photos of the flowers – probably for next year’s auction book. 

  

 

Galen and one of his grandchildren checked out the theme baskets – one of the highlights of the auction.

 

 

 Gift baskets at LAMS are rarely a bargain, but I did manage to buy one – a basket filled with pretty paper and plastic supplies for a picnic or party:  napkins, tablecloth, plates, plasticware. 

You will notice many orange shirts at the auction.  That means they are part of the auction committee.

 

 

 

Kristen and Jere (Executive Auction Coordinators) visit with a mother of LAMS students.

 

 

 Another highlight of the sale is “class projects” – items that have been made by each class.

 

 

Each kindergarten class (two of them) put hand prints on a small picnic table.

 

 

Ian’s hand print.

Jere and Kristen would have liked to purchase this table, but it went higher than they wanted to bid.

 

 

Her parents made Jana happy when they were able to purchase the bundle of hand-stamped cards designed by her fourth grade class.

 

 

 There are also very few bargains on the beautiful quilts and comforters.

 

 

 

  

 I enjoy seeing some of the general items sell, but bid on very few, because we don’t need ‘things.”

 

 

I decided to bid on a container (about a quart) of ham and bean soup made by C B. Horst, a friend of ours, as well as a grandparent of several school students.  I figured a quart of soup can’t be too expensive.  Wrong!  I paid $19.00 to get a taste of this wonderful stuff.

Thanks, C.B.  It is delicious – and we are eating it slowly.

 

 

Kristen and Jere watch the sale of a rocking chair.

 

 

Jana (grandaughter) and her good friend Renee enjoy lollipops – the reason Jana’s lips were blue in the earlier picture – with the handcrafted cards.

 

 

 

 Our friend, Jere, holds a fresh flower arrangement that decorated tables in the food tent.  These were sold on auction at the end of the day.

 

 

 I noticed Kristen’s mom trying to figure out what to do with her reserved sign when she was ready to go home.  Her daughter’s back looked like a good idea.

 

 

 

 

 All leftover food and drinks are sold at the end of the day.  And you would be wrong if you think you are going to get a deal here.  These sold for something like $10 to $14 each!

 

 

Cerwin left the sale early to take our sister-in-law, Anne, to the Harrisburg airport for a trip to Rome – where my brother Clair is working right now.

After that, Cerwin stayed here and mowed the yard until Lydia and I got home. It was a beautiful evening to wash the CRV.

 

 

  

 

 While taking those last two pictures, I noticed these pretty blooms.  I don’t remember what this perennial is called, but I am sure that someone out there does.

 

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I had a fun day.

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