Skyline Auction

One of the nicest gifts given to me today was the visit from our daughter Sarah. While Rhoda and I were out playing with Ella she was in the kitchen busy cleaning out EVERY cupboard and all of the drawers. Everything has been re-organized. She is so good at figuring out where things should go. She even cleaned the stove and all of the counters.

What a wonderful surprise and much appreciated gift.
Mark and I needed to be at the fellowship hall by 4:00pm for the big Skyline auction. Mom and Diane decided to ride with us then leave with Mike. We were hopeful people weren't burnt out on auctions. Last Saturday was the auction for the hospital in Haiti and it raised $523,000.00. That auction drew from many of the AC churches while this one draws mostly from Peoria and Princville. Below are a few of the pictures. It was a huge success. Check out the pies, the amount prepared for the evening was staggering and by the end of the evening they were ALL GONE!

The dinner served was either chili or potato soup (or both)along with salad, bread and butter. I've never tasted better potato soup. The cooks told us they accidentally made WAY too much of that and would sell the rest at the auction. I could hardly wait for the soup to be offered except when they finally announced the left over soup would be sold, the kitchen help shook theirs head and exclaimed there WAS no more soup.



I don't know the total raised but some of the ammounts were staggering. A weekend of babysitting went for $3300.00. Aladar Acres offered 2 loads of compost that went for $1200.00. Imagine my surprise to find out MOM bought it. The nerve of her buying manure from another horse farm! Of course we had to hear how Clydesdale manure must be better than Friesian manure. Carl and Debbie Hoerr's 3 daughters offered to put on a meal for 12 and that went for $6000.00 (that was just ONE MEAL). One lady donated 10 paper plates and each one had 6 cookies on it. The first plate of 6 cookies went for $130.00. All of the rest sold for $110.00 each.
Get the picture? It was so humbling to see how generous people were for our Skyline retirement home.