January 2011 Meeting/ White Elephant

[Dixminion]

White Elephant Sale
WHO: George Thompson
WHEN: January 29th 2011 at 12pm
WHERE: 2267 NE 77th Seattle 98115

From points south:
Take I-5 North to Lake City Way/NE 80th exit (exit 171). Keep RIGHT at the fork in the ramp. Merge onto NE 73RD ST. Turn LEFT onto 12TH AVE NE. Turn RIGHT onto NE 75TH ST. Turn LEFT onto 23RD AVE NE.

From points north:
Take I-5 South to NE 80th/85th exit(exit 172). Keep LEFT. Turn LEFT onto NE 80TH ST. Cross over freeway, cross Banner Wy. and cross Lake City Way. Turn RIGHT at 15TH NE. Turn LEFT at NE 75TH ST. Turn LEFT on 23RD AVE NE.

It's the last brick house on the left. Knock on the garage door to enter. Lost? Call 2oh6-5two8-7786.

This posting was lifted from last years White Elephant Sale posting. The dates were changed to protect the INNOcent.

Don

[Cheleker]

Here's the usual agenda.

11:00.
Help set up. Get a preview of silent auction items and a head start on the food.
Noon:
Introduction, welcome, and house rules by George
Noon until ??:
BBQ and Pot Luck
Noon to 2:00:
Silent Auction
1:00 - 2:00:
White Elephant Auction -- Part the First
2:00 - 3:00-ish:
Club meeting; including election of 2011 officers and announcement of the Dick and Carmena Penna Inspiration Award recipient.
3:00 until ??:
White Elephant Auction -- Part the Second

At the end of the Auction, the Big Spender Award will be presented.

Don't forget to pay your annual dues!!

[minied]

ttt

[DaveB]

can't wait! packaging and taping and wrapping and and and. . . already!!

can't wait!

[Cheleker]

Don't forget to bring your White Elephants, and if you have something you'd like to add to the silent auction table, please do so.

A reminder: a white elephant should be something Mini related (although we're a little relaxed on this point), but whatever the wrapped package contains, it should be of use.

Auction rules:
o Bids in increments of one dollar. We allow bids such as 997, 1098 or 1275, but know that if they win, the amount is rounded up to the next dollar.
o Settle up with the Treas. as soon as you can. Checks and cash accepted.
o As in the past, clever George will probably stash a few "incentives" in the packages.

The only other rule I can think of, is do not eat all Kelley's red beans and rice before I get some.

[MiniTartan]

Sorry we missed this one. We were on our way there going down Maple Valley Highway and the car sputtered to a stop close to Ceder River Golf Course. The gas gauge said it was full, but acted like it was out of gas. We got some gas in the tank (maybe a gallon) and it fired right up. My thought is there might be something in the fuel or the tank that might have temporarly closed off the fuel intake. We haven't had any issues before like this and it ran great going home.

[mmalleck]

Misc. photos... (our forum is cutting off the right edge of the photos on some of these)

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[mmalleck]

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[stargirl501]

great pictures!
thanks to george for hosting, and to everyone for making it so much fun. :) i loved the white elephant auction, something totally new to me but really fun!

[skip]

George,
Thanks for hosting the "almost premier" event of the year! My son had a great time again, he asked me when the White Elephant Auction was again this year. He ships out to Diego Garcia for a year in another month or so gave me some great one on one time together with him.
Thanks to everyone else who worked to put this together. Last but not least thanks to Dan Berglund for being so inspirational!!

[BIGSHOT]

Gee. I've been accused of being a lot of things, but I don't think inspirational was ever one of them.

Thanks, Skip, and thanks to everyone for being part of a club I'm proud to represent whenever I'm out driving around in my little car.

Now here are a few more photos from yesterday.

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Dan

[BIGSHOT]

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Dan

[BIGSHOT]

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Massive thanks to George for hosting the whole shebang AND hawking the auction items.

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Dan