Had a great night sleep last night (though Hubby’s wasn’t as great for some reason, unusual for him), then a leisurely breakfast, until finally, after Hubby’s soccer game that he likes to watch on Saturdays, we headed out to the benefit event. Many of our camp neighbors had left already, which was unusual on a Saturday, but this seems to be a big day riding area, as a lot of trailers came in during the morning as well. Anyway, we found the benefit with no problem. We spent the first half hour or so just looking at the hundreds of items they had to auction off, including a lot of saddles and horse stuff. If I was looking for a saddle, this would have been the place! Brand new English saddles were going for $40, a number of cordura type western saddles for nearly the same. At the end of the auction, they even sold off a highly ornamented Circle Y saddle for $350! I was tempted to bid on it, just because it was a Circle Y saddle (they usually go for upwards of 2K), but I just didn’t want to buy more stuff we’d have to get rid of again later, we’re trying to pare down to the minimum as it is. We did buy a few things we needed, at rock bottom prices, so we didn’t mind the $10 pp cover charge we paid when we first got there. Besides, it was a benefit, after all! They were also serving lunch, but we only took a bottle of water, a couple pieces of cake, and when we were leaving (MUCH later than we had anticipated) a plateful of delicious smoked pork for the road. It was nearly 6:30 when we got back to camp, I was starting to get worried because we had been away so long, but everything was perfectly fine when we got back. Made dinner fast, while Hubby helped our neighbor borrow our compressor to pump up the air bag suspension in her RV, which apparently had leaked out, even though they had just been installed last week. Finally settled down for a nice quiet rest of the evening.
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