I haven't had that much fun sitting in front of a computer ever!!!

Thanks so much for thinking of this, putting it together and moderating it so well.

I can't wait to see how much $$ was raised!

Carole B You Rock!!!! I hope Guy and Joe get to smoke a cigar together some day

Tara, that's a date, for sure! The guys would enjoy each other's company and toking up on their cigars and you and I would have a blast, too.

Joe's Dad was a Forest Ranger up in Oregon and Washington when he was a younger man....up in the tower watching for smoke at all time.

Six degrees of separation, eh?!

It was tons of fun with the auction....can't wait til the next one on BT. Ayo. Carole

I agree, this was fun and look at how many things were donated and how many bids on each. Awesome!!! I had a lot of fun, I hope everyone else did too!

Thanks mods for all your hard work and to all those who participated. I'll start sewing another teddy for next year.

Carole, I managed to spend $80 at the cigar shop anyway! I did tell Guy about the auction --- he said he would have had a hard time smoking the cigar One of the other firefighters chimed in quickly that he would!!!

Tara, I was thinking the same thing....will Joe actually "smoke" the two cigars he will receive for his birthday gift? Hmmmmm. He might smoke one and "save" the other but I'm not sure. I bought them for him to enjoy so I hope he does! They are his so he will do as he pleases.

I have a feeling they will be consumed and enjoyed, however! LOL. That's what they were made for by some artisan's hands, after all!

Had a ball bidding with you on this one, Tara. We will definitely have to meet either on Bonaire some day or out West. Please thank Guy for his hard work with the fires out there....we all do appreciate their hard efforts to contain and extinguish them...even we folks on the East Coast. Ayo. Carole and Joe

Now I have to start thinking up something I can donate for next year's auction. I've got some ideas brewing on watercolor based on one of my photos from underwater Bonaire. It will probably take me at LEAST a year to get it right. (Then I won't want to sell it!!)

Thanks Mods for all the fun!

Yep thanks to the MODS from this side of the pond too!

I'll have to try harder for the teddy next time Linda