Cavers, please start looking through your garages, storage units, attics, sheds, and basements (for the few of you lucky enough to have one!) for cave and camping gear, art items, fine foods or alcoholic beverages, or anything else cave related or that would be appreciated by other cavers. We are having another fund-raising auction this year at the TSA Spring Convention, on Saturday evening after the banquet. In previous years your generous contributions (and generous bidding!) helped us pay off the property with Punkin Cave and Deep Cave in Carta Valley, Texas. The TCMA is actively looking for additional caves to purchase, and your contributions will help buy caves for cavers. Please send me a short email if you have anything to donate, and I'll start a list. You can bring the items directly to the TSA Spring Convention in Cedar Park, unless you can't make it that weekend and want to make other arrangements with me. My lovely assistants and I, as well as the rest of the hard-working TCMA team, hope to see a record crowd this year. We promise to make it entertaining if you promise to be free in both your item donations as well as your bids. :-)
Jim "Crash" Kennedy 2010 TCMA Auctioneer
