Eggrolls and auctions

Well, the blizzard was a disappointment.  We only got a few inches of snow and the winds were less than impressive.  Do you hear me, snow demons?  I am mocking you!  I bet you couldn't summon a decent blizzard if your red horns depended on it!  There, that should get them riled up.  If we get 24" dumped on us next week, you can thank/blame me.

In other news, O's birthday is Sunday.  He has requested homemade egg rolls and sweet potato fries for supper, with chocolate zucchini cake for dessert.  Egg rolls are one of the recipes all my kids LOVE, and request frequently.  I don't make them as often as they would like, simply because they are rather putzy.  But they are also very tasty.  I use store-bought egg roll wraps instead of making my own.  Actually you could just make the filling and skip the wrap, and it would still taste great.

I use a recipe from a Chinese cookbook I bought at a garage sale many years ago.  25 cents!  Can't beat the price, even if there are no pictures inside.  Egg rolls, fried rice, beef and broccoli, and wonton soup are the only recipes I've ever made from the cookbook.  They are all excellent.  I should try making more.

In other news, Hubby and I have recently spent a bit of time perusing an online auction site.  A nearby rural school district (Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop) voted last year to close its middle school and consolidate those grades into its elementary and high school buildings.  Like all school closures, it was a difficult and hotly contested decision.  After removing the furniture/appliances/fixtures that they wanted to keep, the district is now auctioning off the remaining items.  There's hundreds of things available, including:

A 32'x33' wrestling mat

Bottomless bin of basketballs

The beginnings of a mariachi band

DIY nightmare kit part 1

DIY nightmare kit part 2

DIY brain freeze kit.  AKA an Icee machine.

They also have about a gazillion desks, chairs, tables and books on the site.  And also, sadly, the old front entry welcome board.

I worked with several of the people listed on the board.  Mr. Busse was the golf coach and would take his players to Fort Ridgely when our course was still open.  Mr. Kaukola led a student clean-up day at the park each spring.  And Mrs. Weir was on the Friends of Fort Ridgely Board when it was still active.  It's sad that the school has closed, but kind of inevitable in a dwindling rural town of only 1100 people.  Costs keep rising, but fewer residents means less tax income.  And no one wants to fund a school levy.

Here's the auction website, for anyone interested.  Online auctions can be hit or miss -- last year Hubby and I bought a fairly new refrigerator at a church auction for about a third of the cost.  It's come in mighty useful, especially last summer when we were limiting our grocery store visits because of COVID, but still had four hungry teenagers to feed.  Gotta have a place for all the milk, veges and leftover pizza to get you through the week.