Garden Club Auction

There are certain things that happen in December year after year. Garden club auction is one of them. So when we got invited to go to Scotland I had to make sure our trip fit between big needlepoint exchange lunch and garden club. That meant I had to be home yesterday.

If I were just a regular garden club member I might be able to miss the auction. (I have missed too many meetings this year.) I just can’t miss the auction because I am the auctioneer. Poor Anne Lloyd, this year’s president, was concerned that I might not get back. She texted me a couple times to make sure I was going to make it.

Of course I did! And since it was my first day back my jet lag was not bad. I did get up at 4:15, but thankfully this is a lunch time auction. We held it at Hill House so there was plenty of space to display the items right where I was auctioning. We had an overflow of guests. Apparently 10 more people showed up than RSVP’d.

Missy had asked people to report in what they were bringing in advance so the check-in was smoother. My item was called “winner, winner chicken dinner.” It was a chicken dinner for 6 in the month of December. It turned out to be much too popular because instead of making one dinner I am now making three because they were willing to pay a crazy amount.

The auction went fast. And there were lots of good items. I tried to even buy some myself. Someone asked me how I could keep the amounts of bids and the names of the bidders in my head so fast. I told them it was all because of Mah Jongg. Always building new neural pathways.

After the auction we sat down to a lovely lunch cooked by chef Paris. This meant no one had to cook or do dishes. It was a great way to raise a lot of money.

Thanks to all the donators, the bidders and the winners. I am very excited to get my Hope Valley Garden club needlepoint canvas that Nancy generously provided multiples of for the 7 people who won that.

It was our first year without Holley B. and the fabulous decorations she would make. I did miss her extra today, but know she and Connie know we miss them at Garden club as they look down at us.

I could say now I can have jet lag, but I have the Christmas friendship lunch tomorrow so I will have to be tired the next day.

Anne just sent me his little video of the auction.