Aloha Friday-Fundraisers Fallen In Place

Now that Fall has arrived it seems that all the Fundraisers have begun. Oh let's see..... We have, Trips, Schools items like Pies, food/meals, Dinning out, raffles, wrapping paper, Schools teams, the band, the chorus, the football team, the girl scouts, boy scouts, the Police, the firemen, the magazines and I could just go on and on. How does one control the out flow of money. A dollar here and five dollar there and then they want 25 dollars for some other fundraiser.
So Today's Question is:

Do you give to Fundraisers and Do you Limit which ones or do you have a certain total amount you will give?
Oh okay why not tell us which ones you give to, we know they reel you in?

I usually will give to only a couple but this year I have been bombarded with them! Well I give to School bands and orchestra. Okay the Scouts reel me in also, for you see those cookies and popcorn are too temping.


Kailani over at An island life has many more links to questions. Want to join in visit An Island Life. After all it's Friday and we all know what that means.... Getting ready for the weekend fun.
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WW-The Old Among Us

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Ever think of the Old Towns, like Philadelphia,Salem, CrippleCreek and Williamburg. Do the spirits roam their streets? We have a town in our area the dates back to the 1700's, Ellicott City. They have Ghost tours and tell of the time when ghost and all short of things went on. Coming up on All Hollows Eves, I thought a trip through some of the old towns was in store. Today we start with...

Ellicott City.

This is a shot of part of the street.

An old lodge

A house at dusk

The light in a store front

Now I found this in an old Antique store window....

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Monday's News-A Fest, A meal and A House

Saturday we went to the Oktoberfest in Germantown. It was the first time we had gone to their fest. This was their 28th year. The music was great, We listen to a German Band and Watched the German dancers, all in Bavarian Lederhosen and Dirdl dress. I heard this was a year of record sales for Bavarian clothing. I guess all those folks going to Oktoberfest needed to buy clothing this year. I will have to get mine out for the Schools Oktoberfest come up. The food was not that great there, not as it was at last weeks Fest. I did get some....

GermanBockworst and...
yes with a German type mustard

They had some Venders there as well. I did not really spend much time looking around. We were there for the Beirgarten Tent and Music.

Oh I really enjoyed this.

Still craving some German food, Hubby and I decided to go to a German Restaurant.There is an old city in our area call Ellicott City. It dates back to the 1700's, there are still building from that time area and up to the early 1900's. We love going to the old town. Haven't been there in some time.

The Ellicott Mills Brewing Company is the restaurant we went to.

They had a special on their menu,

Wild Boar Stew.

I have not had that since we visited the Blackforest in Germany. It was so good! I brought some home for later today. Oh that hit the spot and my Germanfest day was complete. A great Fall Dish to have. I will have to go back to get that recipe. Now just where to get the Wild Boar?

Sunday We went to church and got to see the family. I will be making their costumes for the fall parties coming up. Critter requested Batman, Alex wants RobinHood and Lyd is a Smurfett. This week will be a busy sewing week. Parties start the end of the month.
There is a new facility called...

Jill's House.

They just finished the building and are getting ready to open. So we all went to the Open house. Oh it was just beautiful. Jill's House is a respite for the special needs child. They will provide over night care so that the family can have a break for the everyday care of their love one. It is the first of it's kind in this area. I will put a link below for you.
Oh yes I did get a Lollipop at the fest! My Weekend song remind me when I saw it.

Join the Miss Marple meme and share your weekend with us.You never know when you'll need that alibi.

Now what did you do this weekend? Leave it here in my comments, I would love to read how your weekend went.

Your Links:
For German clothing visit ErnstLicht
for Wild Boar Stew visit. Ellicott Mills Brewing Co.
More info on Jill's House in Vienna, Maryland