Somethings in our life we plan and implement all aspect of the endeavor, and somethings in your life things just happen all by themselves. We were at the first charity auction for The Ronald Macdonald House in Washington. My friend Coleen was on the Board of Directors and was very anxious about how the group would respond to the auction. This was in 1982 or 1983, before the charity auction business got trendy. Coleen knew we had been to lots of auction in Pennsylvania, so she asked us to get the bidding going. Very often, if the bidding gets lively, the process takes on a life of it's own. The same evening, we saw the jersey owned by John Riggins sold for fifteen thousand dollars in a matter of three minutes. Our young boys were with us helping the bidding along. All went well. As planned, we would bid for a bit to get things started, and then we would drop out. A hot tub had been donated , in Redskins colors, to be sold and delivered, with a value of $4,500. The auctioneer described the hot tub. No one bid. Andrew looked up at me and I nodded. He bid one thousand dollars. Dead stoney silence in the hall. SOLD to the young man in the fifth row!! He was agast. What now? The hot tub was delivered and installed for the one thousand dollars Andrew bid at the auction. We paid extra to run the electrical line to the back of the yard. We all loved it. And we have never been without a hot tub since. No planning. No saving ahead. Just a whim doing a good deed.
The Trois Estate is a place that you stumble upon, and wonder how on earth this could have happened. A couple purchased the 57 acres of land north of Fredericksburg, overlooking the Enchanted Rock State Park. It is an amazing place. Look it up on the computer, because I can not begin to describe the extent of the eccentricaties. The man has well over a thousand cap guns, all desplayed in a large hall. The dining room is lovely, overlooking the big granite rock, and is open for brunch on Sundays. The very large dance hall has walls covered with stuffed animals. The bed and breakfast rooms are decorated in antiques. There is no end of the collections this man has displayed in this estate. And it is all in the country just north of this small German town of Fredericksburg. I hope they have a deep pocket or a sugar daddy to keep this place afloat. The place is just amazing. Next time you are in the hill country of Texas, go and visit them. They love to have folks come and see all their stuff.
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