Yes, the weather outside was frightful!  After a mild autumn, and 70 degree weather not a week before the Annual Holiday Bazaar and Open House, you guessed it!  It snowed!

Old timers who have seen this phenomenon year after year are looking for ways to turn this predictability (first snowfall of season on the day of the Bazaar) into a fundraiser.

But it was beautiful!

And it didn’t stop people from coming.  Thanks go out from all of us to all of you hearty people who slogged up our driveway!

They found the festivities in full swing! The Mani Jewel had a special booth with Holiday treasures–a lot to choose from.  Here Ani Drolkar helps two shoppers make the hard choices.

Ani Arene was wrapping gifts–and enveloping all comers with her smile!

Some of the gifts available were intangible.  Here our resident poet concentrates on composing an original haiku at a customer’s request.

And some items for sale involved deferred gratification!  KT explains the Food and Fuel Rebate Certificate to Yeshe.  It’s a KPC fund raiser that will continue to be available.

The Garuda Aviary, the KPC Parrot Sactuary, was the beneficiary of two fund raisers.  Here’s Ann Marie with the display of the jewelry she makes.  She donates all proceeds to the Garuda Aviary.

And there was the bake sale that the ‘tween girls started for the Garuda Aviary. Girls . . . ?  Hey!  Where are they?  (No one here but us Moms!)

Ah!  The temptations of shopping!  Maybe they sneaked off to buy their Moms a present?

The younger kids got into the picture with a game called “Safetyville.”  The little ones are concentrating really hard on the answer to a safety question.

There seemed to be something for everyone!  Lots and lots of shop-opps for people gifts.  Here Raven chooses from a dazzling array of scarves.

The kids had a chance to give other kinds of gifts too.  Sam helped the young people fashion gifts for the wild birds:  peanut butter cone treats.  Tweet, tweet!  Better than sweet!

Some things, after all, are just worth the trouble!