- 9/30/2007 11:18:38 PMKrakow Auction Wrap-upWhat an awesome day we had! You couldn't ask for a better fall day. Today's auction was near the town of Krakow. It was set to start at 11:00 AM and we had to be there 2 hours in advance. On the way in, we swung by the Piggly Wiggly and picked up a dozen doughnuts and a few extra 12-packs of Mountain Dew because we were a little low on that flavor. It is a good thing we did - more about that later.
When we arrived at the auction site, Mary, Grandma Carol and Grandma Karen were all there waiting for us. I was glad to see my mom (Karen) was able to come. I had spoken with her earlier in the week and asked her for help. I wasn't sure if we were going to need the extra hands or not but I wanted her to be there either way. She stopped in at some bakery in Pulaski and purchased a very large box of very large sweet rolls. These are not your ordinary grocery store doughnuts. They were massive! The kind that make you quite full if you decide to eat the whole thing. She also bought some smaller cake-doughnuts. These were in addition to the doughnuts we brought from the Pig. We weren't going to sell coffee but at the last minute we decided to do so. I'm glad we did. We decided to sell some of the doughnuts. They were so huge and there were too many for us to eat.
- 8 oz. Coffee $1.00
- Cake doughnut $1.00
- Massive Roll $2.50
We ended up selling the entire pot of coffee (18 cups) and Mary put the remaining half gallon of water into the pot and we perked that as well. The first pot of coffee was a little too strong. NOTE TO SELF: 2 measuring cups of coffee is too much for the percolator. This combined with the sugar from the sweet roll is enough to put you into a coma. PERSONAL NOTE: I don't need 4 doughnuts...
It was a little breezy and Mr. Bahrke decided to put is in pole shed so we wouldn't have to fight with the wind. That was a good thing. The wind was enough that it could have caused problems for the grill - either with a flame-out or uneven heating. We setup our tables facing the crowd. I fried the burgers, Grandma Karen filled the hamburger buns from the magic burger bath and kept the flies at bay. Peggy wrapped the burgers and handed them to Mary. Mary took and filled orders, got doughnuts and filled coffee (and took all the photos). Grandma Carol ran the register. Megan filled soda orders and James separated frozen patties. Ellie made friends with another little girl there and collected every single acorn in the yard.
It is hard to say exactly how well we did. The customers were steady for 3 hours. I only fell behind once causing one customer to wait. In all, we sold 171 cans of soda. The favorites seem to be Pepsi, Root Beer and Mountain Dew. We sold all of the regular Mountain Dew and have a few cans of diet left. I cooked about 5 cases of burgers which is about 180 patties (in 3 hours). We brought in $702 (gross) and netted about $563-ish. We have 2 more auctions scheduled and aside from having to purchase more soda, we are well in the black. According to my personal accountant - Peggy, we have raised $24,056.10 since we began our fund raising efforts in June.
$24,000+ in four months. Wow!
During the early days of our adoption adventure, I purchased a lottery ticket thinking it would help me decide on what to do. I didn't have the winning ticket but that doesn't mean I didn't win.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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