It has been a long time since I last posted. The idea was I would do a catch up each week but since I don’t post everyday, it goes out of my mind and I forget.
However, we have had a busy weekend so far so I’ll write about that.
Friday was Springfest at Smallest’s School. As we do each year, we had the Jar Ping Pong Game. You know the one at the fair where you win a goldfish which has since been taken over by Beer Pong.
So we set ourselves up in the shade, in the kindergarten playground, filled our jars and waited for the crowd. It wasn’t long before a steady stream of kids came up and ping ponged their 3 balls for 1 ticket into the jars. This is a hugely addictive game and certain kids came back time after time after time. I don’t know how much money the parents gave their kids but we took over 300 tickets which equates to $300+ . Considering we spent less than $30 on sweets, that’s a huge profit we made for the school. It was also very entertaining watching little girls easily beating their older brothers and boys doing better than their fathers and uncles. We started at 4:30pm and got home by 8:30pm. Huffle was starving and popped to our newly opened local restuarant (not a spelling error, that’s what the signs all say!!) for take away.
Saturday (today) we had to get up very early (7am) for our Hamlet Garage Sale. We had sorted all the stuff to sell so it was just a case of getting it organised. Our first buyer was from the local daycare and arrived at 7:30am and bought a big box of Bionicles, some games and books. We ended up selling about $90 in all and we were very happy. Nothing went back in to the house. Diabetes Society took all the clothes and shoes, a few things were left on the front for the tip jackals to take and the rest went in the car which we took later to the Charity Shop. Otto came back later for Small’s scooter and DonNoQuotey came back back for the horrible light that wenall bumped our head on. MrsChristmas sat with us for half of the time chatting and laughing and helped us clear up at the end.
My favourite photo of the day was PeterRodrigue’s car, normally plastered with his face, faceless because of a bylaw during election time.
*Huffle and I planted Runner Beans where the peas didn’t grow because the chipmunks ate them!
Tomorrow we are off to watch the Bluejays in Toronto.
However, we have had a busy weekend so far so I’ll write about that.
Friday was Springfest at Smallest’s School. As we do each year, we had the Jar Ping Pong Game. You know the one at the fair where you win a goldfish which has since been taken over by Beer Pong.
So we set ourselves up in the shade, in the kindergarten playground, filled our jars and waited for the crowd. It wasn’t long before a steady stream of kids came up and ping ponged their 3 balls for 1 ticket into the jars. This is a hugely addictive game and certain kids came back time after time after time. I don’t know how much money the parents gave their kids but we took over 300 tickets which equates to $300+ . Considering we spent less than $30 on sweets, that’s a huge profit we made for the school. It was also very entertaining watching little girls easily beating their older brothers and boys doing better than their fathers and uncles. We started at 4:30pm and got home by 8:30pm. Huffle was starving and popped to our newly opened local restuarant (not a spelling error, that’s what the signs all say!!) for take away.
Saturday (today) we had to get up very early (7am) for our Hamlet Garage Sale. We had sorted all the stuff to sell so it was just a case of getting it organised. Our first buyer was from the local daycare and arrived at 7:30am and bought a big box of Bionicles, some games and books. We ended up selling about $90 in all and we were very happy. Nothing went back in to the house. Diabetes Society took all the clothes and shoes, a few things were left on the front for the tip jackals to take and the rest went in the car which we took later to the Charity Shop. Otto came back later for Small’s scooter and DonNoQuotey came back back for the horrible light that wenall bumped our head on. MrsChristmas sat with us for half of the time chatting and laughing and helped us clear up at the end.
My favourite photo of the day was PeterRodrigue’s car, normally plastered with his face, faceless because of a bylaw during election time.
*Huffle and I planted Runner Beans where the peas didn’t grow because the chipmunks ate them!
Tomorrow we are off to watch the Bluejays in Toronto.
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