A tale of pillowcases and opportunity.

Anything can happen when one opens a Sue closet. See, we're having a mini Olympics with students today and were in need of eight pillowcases for a pillowcase race. I immediately thought of closets at my mother's house and hoped to find a good eight to donate to the sporting event.

After a short time, we narrowed it down to 45 pillowcases found on a shelf that were no longer needed. Of course, we had to sort 186 towels into dust cloths, laundry and throw-aways, but we also found the loot we needed.

It is always a quirky endeavor to sort through the items we hide out of site, but such efforts can be lucrative, indeed. I kept reminding my mom that this was only one closet in one American home and if we kept going, we might be able to find enough pillowcases to enter the universe into a pilowcase race.

Thanks, mom!