- 10/20/2007 5:14:05 PMSuring Auction Wrap-upToday marks the final scheduled auction. After a cold spell and a few days of heavy rain, todays weather was beautiful. Mary brought her 36 cup coffee maker and set it up next to ours. We sold out of both and filled one of them half way again and sold that too. It was a great day for coffee.
We met a couple who said their daughter just adopted a little boy from the Ukraine. The final cost was just under $50,000. This is right on par with our current cost estimates. Apparently she had to stay there for 30 days.
Lord - please bring us home sooner than that.
We were hoping for a big day of sales today. I ended up frying about 4 cases of patties. Mr. Bahrke brought 2 more just in case. We sold over 100 cans of soda and the last bag of potato chips. I asked him if there were any more auctions on the horizon. He said he had one more tomorrow (Sunday) that was a multi-estate auction. It will be done at his farm but we will not be doing the food stand. Other than that, there are no more scheduled. He told me, "you just never know in this business. We are one step away from the undertaker. We've done 20 auctions this spring and summer and 10 of them were because of someone's death."
I have seen some of what he is talking about. When ever we go to an estate, I wonder what the circumstances were that brought about the auction. I have spoke with some of the owners and they would say things like:
- "I thought this item would go for more."
- "I was surprised at how much this item went for."
- "I could not watch while this item was sold. I had to walk away."
Do they know that the "finality" and "closure" this auction means for their lives, is the seed of new beginnings for another life?
Working the food stands has provided us with an opportunity to tell people what we are doing. One family whose estate was being auctioned said, "we don't know what we are going to do with this money". What I nice problem to have. I have an idea that could help us both. Peggy told them what we have been doing all summer and where today's profits were going. They asked for our information.
Lord - please - let Your will be done in this. Finish in a bold way, what You've started.
I spoke a little with Mr. Bahkre's boys after the auction was done. They thanked us for coming and said we did a good job. That was a nice compliment and felt great. I hope we have the opportunity to work with them again.
Some time during the auction, Grandma Carol began to tell us a story. I'll try to relay it as accurately as possible:
I guess she was feeling somewhat distant from the Lord over the past week or so. On Wednesday, she realized that here reading and quiet time were not what they were supposed to be. She got back into her bible and read and prayed during the morning. In the afternoon, she got a phone call from a Family Foundation that she had sent a 3 page letter too some time ago. It seems that the letter was misplaced and was recently found. They said that what we were doing is the type of thing that their foundation was intended for. They had some other checks to write and then they would write a check for us. Since they only give to 501c3 non-profit organizations, they would be sending the check to the church.
OO OO OO OO __ OO OO
I think my heart skipped a beat in there. I became weak and tingly all over. Does this mean the dry spell is over?
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