This yearly event is becoming a highlight for The Purple Gang. Last year, someone had coincidentally donated a Red Hat item for the raffle. When they realized The Purple Gang would be very interested winning this Red Hat item, they sold tickets for it just to our members, so one of our Red Hatters would win this prize. This year someone provided a Red Hat prize just for us on purpose this time. There was a nice basket with a furry purple hat and other Red Hat items.
And the winner was one of our May birthday celebrants, seen here in her lovely hat.
In fact we had several May birthdays. Here is another in a Birthday Hat--
Happy May birthday to Dee and Lucy. If I missed any other May birthday, let me know.
As the raffle went on, we continued to have fun. Here are a few more pictures from Cracklewood.
The lady in pink is my friend, Sharon. I have been trying to get her to come to one of our luncheons for quite some time. I found out she had the wrong idea about our Gang. Sharon thought we dressed up to the nines, and just had tea. Not very exciting.
Sharon was happy to find out that description does not match our chapter. After the luncheon, Sharon declared she had the best time she ever had with a bunch of ladies. She has already bought another pink hat at a yard sale, and will be back. Thank you all for welcoming her so nicely.
And how about that young man who bought so many raffle tickets, 100 in all, and kept winning? From across the room, I thought he was one of the high school lads, and he does look exceedingly young, but he is a bit older than my 34 year old son, and owns a heating and cooling company. I stopped and asked him when I could expect to see all his items on eBay. He laughed and said he had to take them all home to his wife and see what she wants to do with them first.
See you at the June meeting. Don't forget the June 19th River Cruise. If you have not signed up yet, contact Queen Max to see if there is time yet.
