Cookie Party and the Winner is......

Saturday morning dawned gray and gloomy and turned down right rainy! Horrors! Not another event with horrid weather. All day I watched the weather radar and the sky. Finally at 2:00 pm I saw with a sigh of relief the sun pop out and a bit of blue sky was seen. Yippee! The party was on.

It was a small group but we had a great time talking and laughing, eating fresh from the oven cookies with warm melty chocolate in them and strolling the garden. If you weren't there you missed a good time and definitely delicious cookies. And a prize winning game.

Mike, Mark, Renee and Sue were very cooperative and posed for this picture!

 

Tonia obviously can tell I'm taking pictures! So much for my "stealth mode".

 

 

The easy part of the party - talking and eating delicious cookies. Winnie brought the beautiful pointsetta which certainly added a lovely splash of color to our festive table. Poor Abby, is on the outside looking in at all those people eating yummy things while she can only sit and wait. When is Jim finally going to leave so we can walk some more!

But at least Abby didn't have to do math! Math you say? Oh yes...math...

Don't you always have to do math at parties?
 

 

Mike very generously provided one of his handmade pottery bowls filled with locally produced (and hand collected) pecans and black walnuts with a sprinkling of chocolates to sweeten the prize. The goal was to guess how many items were IN the bowl and you could win the bowl (including all the items in it.) It was a very serious business where math skills were needed. As you can see, there was intense concentration which resulted in agonized guessing. And even more agonizing over the original guess or two.  It looks like Tonia is reconsidering her guess and asking Ray, so...what do you think?  I think Ray is trying not to say anything!                                        

 

  And the winner is.......

 

 Victor!

 He was only one off from the correct number.