We were astonished when Barbara and Scott Edwards came out to the ranch today for the 3rd annual quilt raffle drawing and handed over a check for a whopping $3,065! That was three times the planned ticket sales. We knew the quilt had drawn a lot of interest but we didn’t quite realize how many people had bought raffle tickets from Barbara … and how many people had bought lots of tickets. Holy cow. Thank you to all of you who made this raffle such an incredible success and blessing for the animals!
Alayne, with blind Austin the Beagle assisting and Barbara holding the basket, set about to draw the winning ticket. And the winner is … (drum roll, please) … Peggy S. of Tallahassee, Florida! Peggy is a regular blog reader who, it turns out, is also a quilter herself. When Alayne called Peggy this afternoon to tell her she had won the raffle, Peggy said she knew how much hard work Barbara had put into making a quilt like this. Peggy said not only was the quilt truly gorgeous, but she thought it was just wonderful that Barbara does this quilt raffle for the animals every year.
And Barbara asked us to thank everyone who had sent her such lovely notes and cards with their raffle ticket checks. She said she was really touched by the sentiments people had expressed.
Finally, our immense thanks and gratitude to Barbara for doing this phenomenal quilt — what an amazing way to help the animals at the ranch.
Thank you all!
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One of our blog readers asked why we didn’t let blind Callie into the cat house. I should have anticipated that question when I wrote the blog post! The reason is because some of the cats would react to an overly friendly and inquisitive Callie by slashing at her face with their claws. We wouldn’t want her to get her eyes scratched or otherwise hurt. The cats in the cat house are not used to dogs milling about, unlike our barn cats. Blind Cinder, for one, actually attacks dogs. Now that’s fearless!
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