Over . It is Over

Today's Saying

When you start treating people like people, they become people. ~Paul Vitale

Our contest is over.
I feel a sense of relief.
I thought I might be stuck for months trying to get a winner.
Here are the people whose names were drawn and the number of times.

Gattina 3
Dulce 2
Melli 3
Mellisa B
Peter Worldman
Aims
Akelamalu
Diana
Mama Zen
Sue

The odds against Dulce ,Melli, and Gattina be drawn once were about 1 in 17.
The odds against their being drawn twice in a row were
1 in 289.
The odds against Mellisa B being drawn once were about
1 in 298 as she had only one entry.
This always fascinates me. Luck is such a strange thing.
Melli got picked three times but Quilly who had as many slips in the bucket didn’t get picked at all. Neither did Thom or the Old Fart who commented almost every day.
But Gattina beat the odds.
She won:

a book , “ The Cat Who had Fourteen Tales”
A full gram of Spanish Saffron
3 Halloween finger puppets
3 Halloween bats
A genuine Irish Collector’s Spoon

And a 3 disk 51 language immersion disk set.

I will pack them up and mail them out by Thursday.
Now I have to decide if I want to run another contest.

(Click on the Pigeon Falls Graphic for previous chapters.)

Pigeon Falls is back to normal. The dragons fly over every day, the whale comes and goes from the Lake of the Loons, the Ghost Piano plays on schedule and in tune, and the heroic poltergeist is back juggling cups at Nancy's Coffee Shop. You can't get more normal than that.
The Guardians arranged for the army of wooly elephant like creatures and riders to return to their dimension with the thanks of the Guardian Council and the town. The gateway is now closed most of the time but visits of the bouncing heads are being arranged and Calab is going to visit their dimension. He says it will be like visiting Oz but without Dorothy.
One Guardian left with the Alien space ships. Tommy's father and the other Guardian have returned to the Guardian Council. Tommy's father is arranging to cease being a Guardian and will marry Mrs. Trumble and live in Pigeon Falls. When he finishes the process to cease being a Guardian he will age normaly but retain his powers or most of them. It will take a month for him to process out.
Pastor Joan has a healrthy baby boy but she and her husband can't agree on a name. They have until the Baptism on Sunday.
Life in Pigeon Falls is good and getting better.
Except for old Mrs. Pemberthy who swears there is a gremlin living in a hole in her back yard. Eino says that's nonsense there are no gremlins.

Wrap Up-Good breathing day. Got caught up on a lot I let go while the grand kids were here. I miss them and the dog really misses them. She is so sad. My sister Dawn called to let me know about my other sisters COPD. Got a nice e-mail from the office of my bishop . Am still waiting for Gattina to e-mail me her address.
My grandson left us a raspberry pie he made while he was here and Betty and I had a piece at tea time. Now I need a breathing treatment.
GBYA