One Thing After Another

 So one more bad thing on Saturday, Our power went out! We saw the power equipment on top of the power pole across the street blow up and spew sparks! YIKES! SO here we are sitting around with candles going. What next!!!

 Sunday I had to work  but made a top afterwards at the Clear Creek Amana High School Fundraiser.

 They hosted a vendor event, with a LOT of vendors, as well as crafts and DD was there sharing her Mary Kay business.

 They also had the pretttiest bake sale I've ever seen!

They had the basics bake sale fare, but it was displayed really nicely! Plus look at these candy apples! I hope they sold them all!

DONE!

SO I just am going to recap the Saturday event for my church-It went very well! My wooden sandwich boards served very well-never got blown over!

 I picked up the hams from the Amana Meatshop-mmmmmmm. DD was the cook and did an awesome job! Pineapple juice& brown sugar glazed ham, baked potato, green beans-no rolls this year-whatdya want for $10!?

 DD and her friend BJ ran the kitchen and kept everyone on task. Of course she had to organize the silverware first. We served on the old church china-I bet that stuff hasn't seen the light of day for 20 years! People commented on how nice it was to have china instead of paper plates. We served salads in the coffee cups-no messy plates here!

 The auction went very well It was such fun!

 And you can see we had a pretty good crowd!

 This quilt sold for $170

 And this one didn't sell-but maybe someone will buy it this week that saw it and thought about it!

There! Done, no more church fundraiser talk here now!

Chocolate Raspberry Twist or Chocolate Vanilla Twist?

So our church is pretty poor, so we do different fundraisers and one of them is to run the ice cream stand at sporting events at Carver Hawkeye Arena on the University of Iowa Campus.The place is pretty empty when we are required to arrive and have the ice cream stand manned -or womanned--- and ready to go.

All  this nice empty space will be filled with folks wanting ice cream in just a little while. And I don't mean a few people, I mean stuffed with people!

A few hundred ice cream cones and waffle bowls later, the arena is filled with fans for the basketball game-Indiana vs the Iowa Hawkeyes. We have one machine that does chocolate vanilla twist and one that does chocolate raspberry twist. I think we should get paid extra for saying those words over and over again!!

$5 for a waffle bowl and $3.50 for a cone. We stack the cones as tall as possible-the company that runs the concessions only counts cones and bowls not ice cream. SO theoretically you could bring your bowl back and get more ice cream...we'd probably think you were crazy though.

A few thousand dollars-yes I said thousand- and we're done, Iowa WON!  Too bad we don't get to keep all the profits! We just get a percentage. And we are ready to go home!