Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Going Once Going Twice Gone

Well I had mention to write this blog Sunday, and then Monday and so on and now its Wednesday.
I am sure that the memory has faded and the humor is lost at this point but I will post about my experience anyway.

Saturday night H.P. and I attended a Chili Feed and Auction. It was a charity event for local school children held at our church. I was encouraged to after seeing the display of quilts up for action. One of them in particular caught my eye. Yep you guessed it was a quilt with tea cups and coffee cups all over it in blocks stripped together. Not something I had in my tea collection and it was calling my name. Tickets were purchased and we waited a week in anticipation of the big night.

Saturday night came and we approached the evening with excitement. I had every intention of walking home with that quilt. Oh yes I did it was mine for the taking. The other quilts were nice and they had some lovely cabins, meals and desserts also available for action.

We made it through the chili line and found our spots at a table placed in the middle of the room. We did not want to be at the front or back just in the middle. The counted down till auction time and then the fun and games began. We spotted a cabin up for bid that was just to good to pass up, so we started bidding. It got down to us and one other bidder. We were discussing our next bid when out of nowhere a new bidder entered bidding, placed a bid and before we or the other party knew what happened we heard sold! Ok well I could still get my quilt. It came up for bid and I played cautious not wanting to draw attention to myself and wanting to jump in at the last minute. The bidding went up, I jumped in and countered back and forth we went and then it hit about $125.00 and I looked at the quilt and thought I am not crazy about the colors, it has coffee cups and references on it. What was I thinking I don't want to pay this much or more for this quilt. I quickly placed my number down and was out. My dear H.P. was in shock, what was I doing I wanted that quilt it was mine - nope I am a woman and I can change my mind and I did.

We bid other several other lovely quilts that night and two other cabins and a getaway but we left with nothing. We were oh so close on a quilt but the auctioneer made a mistake sold it to another couple. Not sure how that happened but oh well. We attended the evening hope to contribute to a good cause come home with a lovely quilt and the joy of an auction. We left with no quilt, no money spent and not sure how we lost one particular item at the auction.

Oh well there is always next year!

Mrs. Potts

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