2/22/18 House Dedication

Glorious sunset last night!  We got up early so we could drive south of the city to attend Arlene's house dedication.  It is a lovely 3 bedroom, 2 bath house.  She, her son and her daughter were very excited.  Everyone seemed to enjoy the banana bread, but there were lots of other items on the food table: quiche, soft tacos with pork, some type of pastry that looks like a filled tart, donuts, coffee cake, etc.  There was a standing room only crowd in the living room and Arlene was very happy as she received her keys to the front door.  It was nice that management delayed the opening of the store until 10 so all the workers could attend the dedication.  We came back to the house to do a few things as we weren't scheduled until 12:30.  When we got to the store, we noticed that they were having a 10% off sale on everything in honor of Arlene's new house - very sweet.  We gave the horseshoe to Matt, saying that we couldn't afford what he wanted (a horse), but we gave him a start.  He laughed himself silly!  It was not super busy today, but everyone who came in bought something so that kept us on our toes all afternoon.  I did find out that we made $15,875 last Saturday - not as much as last year, but certainly a good number for sales in one day.  I just made a pan of brownies to bring in tomorrow - Alastair said he would skip breakfast so he could indulge in brownies.  Tomorrow we will work in the morning and then pack up in the afternoon.