The day started off perfect! A bright, crisp fall day was just the ticket for our garage sale. This is part of the crew and customers that helped us get off the ground! Pam, Linda, Cheryl, Becky and Amber!
We had such fun, educating (you can see our information table in the lower left) and meeting people that wanted to know or already knew about feral cats. This is Cindy. She lives in Avoca and has been a faithful caretaker of ferals in her area and needs help, so we can expand at some point and help in that direction too!
Living in Iowa's Antique City and living right on main street has advantages! We were able to have many travelers stop by. One couple from Wisconsin stopped by and told us of the 18th century mosaic quilt they had just taken to the University of NE Quilt Study to be authenticated. They were nice enough to unwrap and show us!!!
Getting young people involved in community service is a huge thing to us. Here is Amy and Marye from a youth group in town that came by to make our winter shelters! Thank you girls!!!
And of course Kathy's cats had to get in the act! Here is Lucy, checking to be sure we got everything unloaded from this box. Such a helper!
Some of our customers, supporters from Omaha even came. This is my nephew David. He is a wonderful man who loves cats!!! He has rescued two kitties that now live with him and is fostering a kitten at this time as well. Here he tries to befriend Ricky, who is the shyest!
Our facebook friend Dawn came to help too! She lives in a town about 25 miles from us. So good to have her here and so glad to meet her. Dawn and Kathy will go to the conference in DesMoines next Saturday together. Right now....the name of the conference is slipping my ever-loving aging mind and I will add later...geez!
Anyway, all in all it was a great day. The weather could not have been more perfect. We had LOTS of people and they opened their pocketbooks for the kitties. Many of them were very excited to hear about the cause and were eager to learn and to share what they know. While I was totally exhausted at the end of the day, I, Kathy cannot wait til the next one! We even had participation online. Some of our facebook friends that were too far to join us, purchased items online and made donations to our chip in account.
Much gratitude goes to everyone involved in helping to make this happen. All of you who donated items to sell, that helped set up, that spent part of your weekend working, that sent encouraging notes, who made things for us to sell, who came and purchased items here or online...we love you and appreciate all you do to help us.
I signed up on my email to receive google alerts on feral cats. Its amazing EVERY DAY how many articles and how much activity is going on in this area. The word is getting out and people are beginning to notice!
