the day of the great lemonAID stall!

The day of the great stall has been and gone. Stylish raised $34.25 and her grandfather is donating a top-up to $40. She started out quite shyly asking people if they wanted to donate, and then the little girl from next door came over to help and started shouting "COME AND BUY LEMONADE TO HELP THE ANIMALS" and there was suddenly $15 in the basket, it doubled over the next two hours. In the quiet times we sat on the pink velvet chairs out the front and chatted and drank tea. We put Stylish's radio up in the front window and turned it up loud so we had music and also to attract attention.

The stall and the rusty fence

The first customer. A lovely American womyn who was very excited to be seeing a lemonade stall in Australia!

the loud next door neighbour sampling our wares

relaxing with a cuppa inbetween customers

So a great day was had by all, it was very successful! We will be transferring the money to the Victoria Wildlife fund later on in the week.

LemonAID stall preparations underway!

Today Stylish prepared the front garden for the lemonAID stall tomorrow. She is getting quite excited about it now. She went all out to beautify the garden and wipe the table clean. She decided that a gold coin donation will be the price for a cup of poison ... I mean red or yellow fizzy drink.

This afternoon Spike was rather grumpy so we decided to go to the park for a dinner picnic. I got to take lots of photos with the new toy, I'm so in love with it! They had a great time playing on the play equipment in the cooler - daylight saving - evening. Stylish took the rats and they played in the grass, then she ran home with them so she could play on the equipment. I totally forgot to take photos of them first which is a shame coz they were very cute (despite their unfortunate genetic disposition) frolicking in the grass.

note the rat in Stylish's lap