Saturday, April 20, 2019

Saturday, April 20, 2019


Tonight's picture was taken in April of 2005. We took Mattie to Butler's Orchard in Maryland for their Bunnyland event. The event gave kids the opportunity to hunt for Easter eggs, take a hay wagon ride, and even walk through their mazes! Mattie loved the experience and I am so happy Peter snapped this photo of us near a large bale of hay. 










Quote of the day: I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life. ~ Miles Davis

I got up early today so that I could walk Sunny before we went out to the Christmas Tree Shops in Waldorf, MD to purchase items for our raffle. 

Along my Sunny walk today, I spotted these wonderful turtles on a log, basking in the sunshine. To me that was worth a photo. 

While Sunny paused to sniff around, I spotted something red on a bush. As I moved closer, I could see it was a lady bug. Something Mattie used to love. 

Then we drove about 50 minutes (each way) to shop at this store. Why do we drive this distance? Because for the amount of items we need to buy to fill our Foundation raffle baskets. This store is economical and has great variety. I was introduced to this store when I lived in Boston, and I absolutely love it!

But as tonight's quote focuses on creating, I would say it takes creativity to purchase, stage, and sell raffle baskets. Literally when we go into the Christmas Tree Shops, we try to envision items that should go in each of our raffle baskets. We typically pick a theme for each basket and Peter and I then go through each aisle of the store, combing through what we think will work. It is quite a system, but we have perfected it after 10 years. 

See what I mean??? A whole shopping cart full of stuff! If I did not make this journey with Peter, then we would be running to several different stores in order to purchase the same items. It would be a waste of our time and certainly it would be more costly.