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Friday we went to the grand opening of a new farm supply store. When Bill announced that we would be going there on Friday I was thrilled because I wanted to enter the drawing for the door prizes. One of the prizes was a $150 gift certificate for animal food. As many of you know, with the herd of critters I have the $150 would really help out a lot. After all, four cats and three dogs, plus two outside cats do eat a large amount of food. One of the dogs is a Pit/Lab mix and she eats four times the amount that the dachshunds do. Saturday night I prayed that I would win the $150 gift certificate. I don't win anything other than bags of cow manure. No joke, at a grand opening of a garden store one of the prizes was five bags of cow manure, and I won it!!! My father was thrilled because he could use it on the lawn...and he "said" he would give me some money for the manure but he never did. Anyway, that is the one and only time that anyone in my family won anything. I also don't wish for the big things in life, I only wish for the things in life that I need. It was a simple prayer, asking for the certificate because I could use the extra help with feeding God's creatures. I went to sleep and all day Sunday I didn't think about the drawing. I dismissed it because I don't win things. Sunday was busy, I was working on teddy bears for the shop, restringing pearls, and then Bill called and asked if I was up to cutting some of the wood that is in my front yard. He said we would work on it for half an hour and then take our ride around the neighborhood. So, I put aside what I was doing and we cut the wood. When we were finished Bill went home to dust off the sawdust and get ready for our ride. We take along pop sickles, two slim jims, two cookies, and two pieces of chocolate. The ride takes about an hour as we not only go for our own enjoyment but we also do a neighborhood check. We got back from the ride and I started working on dinner for that evening. Bill was coming down for dinner and I was serving meatloaf. Of course, as always, my hands were full of ICK and the telephone rang. The caller I.D. showed that it was the new farm supply place, so I answered it. The person on the other end asked me my name, address etc. I was getting kind of edgy and then the person said "Congratulations!!!" I figured that I won the $50 worth of tools. I love tools so that would be wonderful in itself. The voice on the other end stated again "Congratulations, you have won the grand prize!!!" My brain snapped to attention and I sputtered "What????" The voice again congratulated me and stated "You have won an 22 ton log splitter". I uttered those intelligent words of "HUH???????" The voice laughed and stated it again, "You have won a log splitter that has the splitting power of 22 tons. The value of the splitter is $1200!!!" I was in awe, not that I can use a log splitter, but I actually won something!!! I kind of heard the voice stating that it would take a couple of days for them to put together the log splitter because they sold all the ones that they had on display that had already been put together. Bill was in awe when I called him and told him. The first thing he wanted to know is what I was going to do with it. I don't need one and Bill already has one...it's a bit large for a bookend! I still can't believe that I WON!!! I WON!!! WOW, I WON!!!!! I get to pick up the splitter on Friday. Have you won anything? What was it??? Were you as surprised as I was????