Gift Basket Surprises

I don't usually win raffles even though I enter every one I ever come across. I hit it this time, though, when I bought $5 worth of tickets at the alumni booth at the fair instead of my usual $1. I think the gift basket our alumni association gives out is probably the best prize at the fair.  You wouldn't believe what was in there....

haircut at Jacqueline’s Hairstyling

2 passes Uptown Theatre

$25 flower arrangement or plant at Safeway
$20 worth of food at PennySaver Deli
$20 meal at Roadhouse
banana split at Don’s Pharmacy fountain
$25 gift certificate for Hilltop Tavern
a dozen bagels from Metro Bagels
wicker laundry basket
elect. cork screw
food timer
bath set of soaps,
Red door perfume
embroidered dishtowel
a set of little glasses
photo CD of alumni
Wood vase from Joe Guiher
a second wood vase from unknown
alumni t-shirt
Redskin blanket
jello molds
safari hat
round of golf from golf club
meal at golf house
2 Tom Camfield books
Norman Rockwell book
note cards

There's probably a law against it (there are laws against everything these days) but privately, I intend to encourage people to ask me to buy them a ticket for next years' drawing. I'm totally honest and I think people who know me know that.  Would be a good way to generate more money for the scholarship fund.  Not everyone can get to the fair.
 
I've shared the basket with several people already and will share with several more.  One of the cute things I kept was this salt and pepper shaker. They have magnets on the lips.

I posed with the basket in the casino parking lot as Ruth delivered it to me this afternoon.  None of us knew what was in there for sure so I unpacked it in my trunk to take a look.  I later took another photo when I got home.

We had a nice lunch at the buffet and listened to stories about Mary's trip to Africa.  She told us, among other things, that the way you can tell the sex of a giraffe is that while they all have horns, the females have hair on their horns.  Joanne Gilles says:  "Oh, I thought you could tell my what they had on."   She's so silly.  hee hee
 
Liz O'Brien Hausler (Betty Hayes) was there with her wedding album too and told us about her wedding in Alaska. I borrowed the picture of her cake top as I thought it was terrific.

Here we are posing for our group picture.

Mary and I left before 1 and I decided on the way home to stop and get a quick haircut. Here's my cartoon face and my real face.

 

A friend of Jenni's brought the twins home from the fair a little early so I'm glad I didn't dawdle. Poor Hunter threw up while there and ended up laying on my bed until his mom arrived at 6:30. I just hate it when he's sick and not talking.  I assume it's a flu bug of some kind.

Well, dinner and dishes are done and I even put fresh hummingbird nectar outside. Tomorrow I intend to kick back and take it easy.  Will wait and see what I feel like doing.  Maybe some sewing, but if not, perhaps a jigsaw puzzle, videos, or reading.  A Netflix movie arrived this afternoon and while I've seen it a couple times before, I'll watch it again as I always liked it....Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Maybe I'll start work on my second blog posting for 'Town Kid.' I hope to submit one a week.