My family lives in the northern part of a Western state, where my parents own and operate a resort. The resort property is about five thousand acres, ...ut we lease the rights to horseback ride and fish on another fifty thousand acres. We have numerous trails, some through the open range, some through the forest and some up the mountain sides, but each graded and ranked for the rider's ability. We also operate a remote shelter house and restaurant on the opposite end of the property for the. Hooray.Mother makes plans for the two groups to meet at a picnic area, stillon the observatory grounds. As we arrive, an enormous coffee order isdelivered with gallons of cappuccinos, lates, mochas, and a sissycoffee for me, but with some fat free cocoa. Mother also ordered abunch of scones, muffins and other treats, for the family.I am practically drooling at the food. Mother whispers to me in a sing-song voice, "someone has the munchies." She hands me two low fat,sugar free, vegetable. Mark was a bit older than me, muscular and a regular on the base baseball team who kept fit. They were surprised to see no Sarah and sympathetic as they knew she hadn,t felt well for weeks. They,d invited us to their rented house a month previously and we,d played cards and enjoyed each other,s company, but nothing else and had vowed to invite them to ours which now couldn,t happen. I told them also there was a good chance I might get moved to another base and they wished me luck then invited. The Galle is nice ... an earlier piece I think and pretty clean as well, unlike the KPM's. Too bad about those. If they had been pristine in the full set of seven, those would have cleared fifty-thousand for sure. Now? Maybe fifteen to eighteen thousand." That will do. I need the bucks to do some major house work and that's exactly the way I found them, so there is little point crying over what might have been. What's your auction estimate for the Hallings?" Promising ... maybe $20K, depending.