Browse through the online services by clicking on the green tabs near the top of the page.
To bid on a service click the raised hand on any page. A form will open in a new window. Select the service(s) of your choice, record your bid, and fill in your contact information. Bids will be posted regularly during library hours. Please note that your bid must be higher than the minimum and any posted bids and must be in whole dollar amounts.
The highest bids will be carried over to the live silent auction at the Catskill Art Society on Saturday, June 11, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Winners will be notified after 3:00 p.m. Stop by, watch the Trout Parade and check on your bids! For more information call the library at 845-439-5440.
Calligraphy or hand lettering on a poster, sign or document
Service Provider: Rose Brown
Details: up to 4 lines
Minimum Bid: $20.00
Computer Support - fixing what ails it...
Service Provider: Avi Burstein Computer Support, LLC.
Details: Patron of the books, Avi Burstein, is offering one hour of IT support for your ailing computer!
Value: $75
Minimum Bid: $35
Hand Sewing
Service Provider: Rose Brown
Hand mending or hemming any article of clothing; choose one of my fabrics for a patch, if appropriate. Can include simple embroidery.
Minimum bid: $20.00
Neiman Marcus Secret Cookie Recipe + 6 DOZEN Cookies
Details: Approximately 6 DOZEN delicious chocolate chip cookies made from the "secret" Neiman Marcus recipe archives -- plus a copy of the recipe! The recipe includes ground oatmeal, shaved chocolate, chocolate chips and walnuts! A perfect addition for dessert at your next get together!
Provided by Val Taggart
Value: $50
Minimum Bid: $20
BID: $30.00...
3 DOZEN Chocolate Chip Bar Cookies
Service Provider: Carol Diescher
Enjoy delicious homemade chocolate chip bar cookies made by Carol! Would make an excellent hostess gift!
Minimum bid: $15.00
BID: $25.00...
Feeling a bit nutty?
2 DOZEN Chocolate Chip and Walnut Cookies
Baked by: Debra Feinberg
Enjoy delicious chocolate chip and walnut cookies made especially for you by Debra! If you have a nut allergy or prefer plain cookies, that request can be accomodated!
Thanks, Debra!
Minimum Bid: $10.00
BID: $10.00...
Pecks Gift Certificate
Service Provider: Pecks Market, right here in the Manor!
Details: Pecks is offering a $25 gift certificate.
Buy local - get your groceries at Pecks!
Value: $25.00
Minimum bid: $15
BID: $15...
Breakfast for Two
Made for you by Dawn at Café 43 on Main Street in Livingston Manor
2 Breakfast Specials: Eggs, toast, home fries, coffee/tea, tax included
Thank you, Dawn & Co!
Value: $10.00
Minimum Bid: $6.00
Dessert with Wine or a Cordial
Location: Rolling River Café, Gallery and Inn, Parksville
Service Providers: Owners Rob and Kim Rayevsky
Value: up to $20.00
Minimum Bid: $13.00
Main Street Farm Lunch
Service Provider: Jon Westergreen, Owner
Enjoy a fabulous, flavor-filled lunch at Main Street Farm generously donated by Jon!
Value: $30.00
Minimum Bid: $16.00
BID: $9.00...$21.00...
Madison's Meal Buy One, Get One FREE Madison's Main Street Restaurant
Service Providers: Sarah and Kirk Madison, Owners
Enjoy a buy one, get one free meal at one of Livingston Manor's favorite -- Madison's! Thank you to Sarah & Kirk!
Value: Up to $20.00
Minimum Bid: $14.00
BID: $20.00...$40.00...
Stories Under the Stars
Read by: Kristin Fowler
Description: Your new librarian will read your children bedtime stories as well as provide cookies and milk on her Parksville porch at sundown!
Up to (6) children and their parents/caregivers.
Parents/caregivers will be given wine and apps!
Great view also included!
Value: $70
Minimum Bid: $30
Swimming Lessons
Service Provider: Chatral A'dzé
Details: Former Red Cross swimming instructor offers informal private swimming lessons in private saltwater pool for one or two family members. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Duration: Two 1-hour lessons
Value: $50.00
Minimum Bid: $25.00
Library Friend
Your child has a friend in the library (while you do your shopping in town)! Eddie Lundquist (6th grader) will read to and play games with a 3-6 year-old child for 1/2 hour in the library.
Details: Adult supervision included. Time to be determined.
Minimum bid: $9.00
BID: $9.00...
Take a Hike
Service Provider: Paul "Terry" Shultz
Time to get into the mountains? Hike the Catskills with an experienced hiker, up to 8 miles and/or 10 hours. Time, date and route to be arranged.
Value: $60
Minimum Bid: $40
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Campground Reservations - but bring your own bear
Service Provider: Scott Conley, Roscoe Campsite Park
Enter a world surrounded by the Catskill mountains where the sparkling waters of the historic Beaverkill River filled with hungry trout are within steps of your campsite.
Details: Enjoy a free campsite for 2 nights! Scott will provide more detail to the winning bidder! Some restrictions apply.
Value: $80.00
Minimum Bid: $40.00
Summer Adventure Hike
One or two adults will join Lisa Lyons, of Morgan Outdoors, for a "Summer Adventure Hike " on the Catskill Park trail of choice within 15 miles of Livingston Manor.
From a gentle walk around a hidden pond or lake to a more challenging hike
into the hills, the choice is yours! Snack bars, reusable water bottles,
and a National Geographic Trails Illustrated Catskill Park map included.
Duration: 2-3 hours
Details: To be held on an agreed upon Tuesday or Wednesday
Value: $75.00
Minimum Bid: $50.00
Tour beehives with a local expert
Service Provider: DJ the Beekeeper, B&D Apiaries
Details: Visit active beehives and taste the honey, a very sweet experience - for 2!
Value: $50.00
Minimum Bid: $25.00
BID: $25.00...
$75.00 CAS Membership
Service provider: Catskill Art Society
Details: Immerse in the local art scene with a $75.00 membership to CAS! Enjoy events, art opening, lectures and more! Thank you, Bradley!
Value: $75.00
Minimum Bid: $25.00
Go Fish
Service provider: Vivian Ehrlich
Details: Enjoy a canoe or rowboat on Trojan Lake. Wine and cheese for adults, snacks for children provided. But bring your own fishing rods.
Value: Priceless
Minimum Bid: $50.00
Good Morning America Visit for 2 in NYC!
Service provider: Kristin Fowler
Details: Join the GMA audience to see a live taping of the show in NYC! Package also includes a tour of the studio, control and audio rooms! Visit must be scheduled in advance and winning bidder must have the auction pass with them when they attend the show. Winner: please see Kristin (Librarian) for the auction pass.
Value: Not sold to the public
Minimum Bid: $25
Furniture Refinishing- one item
Service Provider: Vera Farrell
Details: Refinish to natural wood color with water-resistant oil finish. Staining small dressers, wooden chairs, small tables. Can glue joints, as well. See examples of refinished chairs in the library.
Value: $100 - $400
Minimum Bid: $75.00
Book Collection Pick-up
Do you have boxes or shelves of unwanted books? Let us clean off your shelves and haul those books out to be reused or recycled.
Service Provider: Kristin Fowler & Peggy Johanson
Duration: Up to 2 hours of book boxing and loading from one or more sites within 15 miles of Livingston Manor.
Value: $35.00
Minimum Bid: $28.00
Sharpening Lawn Mower Blades
Service Provider: Guy Carlson
Will remove blades from riding or push mower, sharpen and replace.
Location: Guy's house in Deckertown
Value: $40.00
Minimum Bid: $28.00
Bicycle Tune-up
Have your bicycle tuned up by local professional, Charlie Sanborn III, owner of Cinder Track Bicycles of Mountaindale.
Details: Includes brake and gear adjustment, wheel truing, hub adjustment and chain lube. Excludes cost of parts.
Value: $45.00
Minimum Bid: $32.00
BID: $32...
"Dump Run"
Service Provider: Les Mattis
Les will pick up your bagged trash and sorted recyclables and bring them to the Town of Rockland Transfer Station.
Details: one run; enough items to fill a Subaru Outback
Minimum Bid: $20.00
Gardener in Your Garden
Service Provider: Robert Smith
Details: Beloved library patron, Robert Smith, is offering 1-hour of gardening help in Livingston Manor!
Minimum Bid: $10.00
Housecleaning
Lena Lundquist and Peggy Johansen will dust, vacuum and scrub for one hour.
Details: Within 15 miles of Livingston Manor; references available.
Value: $40.00
Minimum Bid: $30.00
BIDS: $40.00...
Knife Sharpening
Service Provider: Ed Lundquist
Sharpen up to 10 blades (kitchen knives, garden shears, etc.). No scissors or serrated knives, please.
Highest bidder plus one more that matches the highest bid!
Value: $40
Minimum Bid: $35
Original Trout Watercolor
Service Provider: Val Taggart
Details: Original, matted, 12 x 12 watercolor by our very own Val Taggart - absolutely gorgeous! For the trout lover in you!
Value: $100.00
Minimum bid: $65.00
Yogic Song and Instrument Instruction
Service Provider: Chatral A'dzé
An introduction to playing rolmo (wrathful cymbals), sil-nyen (peaceful cymbals), chod drum and/or singing songs from a Tibetan yogic tradition
Duration: 1 hour
Value: $60.00
Minimum Bid: $35.00
Meditation Instruction
Service Provider: Chatral A'dzé
Beginning instruction and practice for silent sitting.
Details: (2) one-on-one 1-hour sessions at Willowemoc studio
Value: $50.00
Minimum Bid: $30.00
Introduction to Serene Impulse Meditation
Service Provider: Vivian Ehrlich
Details: Class in the art of serene impulse meditation. 1 hour.
Value: $95.00
Minimum Bid: $30.00
Your choice: Gentle Bootcamp or Classic Hatha Yoga
Service Provider: Justine's Just Breathe Yoga, Parksville
Details: Fun, low-impact exercise with a focus on strength, flexibility and range of motion. Work at your own pace. Gentle; for all ages and levels. Three 1-hour classes.
Value: $60.00
Minimum Bid: $40.00
RIGHT FOOT YOGA, putting your right foot forward
Service Provider: Jane Mann
Join Jane for Yoga, all experience levels welcome, at 4:30 or 6:00 Tuesday evenings at CAS, 48 Main Street in Livingston Manor.
Duration: Come for two classes, each 11/4 hours.
Value: $20.00
Minimum Bid: $10.00
Ballroom Dance Lessons
Providers: Jerry and Vivian Ehrlich
Details: For beginners; 1 couple or single; 3 basic lessons. Choose one or more of the following: Waltz, Fox Trot, Rhumba, Swing, Cha Cha, Mambo, Tango (American or Argentine). Lessons will be conducted in Livingston Manor.
Duration: 3 one-hour lessons for single or couple
Value: $105.00
Minimum Bid: $60.00
Fly Fishing Instruction
Service Provider: Paul "Terry" Shultz
Details: personal instruction; local rivers; fit for experience of student (beginner, intermediate or advanced)
Duration: 2 hours
Value: $100.00
Minimum Bid: $60.00
Ukulele Lesson
Basic finger positions and strumming patterns
Details: 1 hour; your uke or mine, location to be arranged
Service Provider: Henry Barish
Value: $25.00
Minimum Bid: $10.00
BID: $25.00...
Yiddish Instruction
Service Provider: Jerry and Vivian Ehrlich
Details: Yiddish is alive and well. Explore the joys of Yiddish through words and song. 2 hours of instruction, additional time can be purchased.
Minimum bid: $40 per person, $60 per couple.
Highest matched six bids will be taken!
Computer Support - fixing what ails it...
Service Provider: Avi Burstein Computer Support, LLC.
Details: Patron of the books, Avi Burstein, is offering one hour of IT support for your ailing computer!
Value: $75
Minimum Bid: $35
Computer Tutoring
Service Provider: Avi Burstein Computer Support, LLC
Details: One hour of personalized computer tutoring from Livingston Manor's IT guy!
Value: $65.00
Minimum Bid: $35
Computer Help
Service Provider: Jerry Ehrlich
Get the help you need! Set up and organize email, format documents, set up files, and/or improve web searches. Windows systems only. Willing to come to your home.
Duration: 1 hour
Value: $25.00
Minimum Bid: $18.00
West Coast Swing Dance
Service provider: Laurie Ehrlich
Details: Come enjoy 2 beginning West Coast Swing lessons provided by Laurie Ehrlich! Dancing runs in the family - sure to be a hit! Lessons must take place between July 9th and July 23rd.
Value: $60.00
Minimum Bid: $20.00
Scavenger Hunt Party
Service Provider: Jan Carlson
Details: Animal themed hunt intended for 20-25 adults or adults and teens. Two or three hours. The game combines the zaniness of a road rally, the adventure of a treasure hunt and the thrill of a race against the clock. Time will fly and you will have more fun than you can imagine. Jan will help with invitations and set up and will judge the results at the after-hunt party. "I have hosted 3 hunts and they are by far the best parties I have ever thrown."
Value: $40.00
Minimum Bid: $25.00
Sunday with Sophocles
Service provider: Barbara Martinson
Details: Join Barbara and Larry for a Greek play reading, audience discussion, and a flavor-filled Greek dinner for 6 or more - to be negotiated!
Value: $120
Minimum Bid: $50
Bowling, Pizza and Lots of Laughs
Service Provider: Janice Carlson
Jan and Linda will take you bowling, work with you if you aren't a bowler, and treat you to a pizza lunch.
Details: For 1 or 2 people; Tuesdays are best, but could do another day if need be.
Duration: 2-2 1/2 hours
Value: $50.00
Minimum Bid: $30.00
BID: $30.00...
Stories Under the Stars
Read by: Kristin Fowler
Description: Your new librarian will read your children bedtime stories as well as provide cookies and milk on her Parksville porch at sundown!
Up to (6) children and their parents/caregivers.
Parents/caregivers will be given wine and apps!
Great view also included!
Value: $70
Minimum Bid: $30
Manicure & Pedicure
Service Provider: Annie's Tips & Toes
Details: A relaxing experience for beautiful nails and toes! Located in Roscoe. Please book in advance with the salon.
Value: $40.00
Minimum bid: $20.00
BID: $25...
Fashion Consultation
Service Provider: Carolin Walton Brown of Willow & Brown
Discover your fashion style with flattering colors, shapes and fits! Carolin will come to your home to help you create a fall wardrobe that's right for you and your lifestyle. What can you combine? What needs to be weeded? What smart purchase would increase your wardrobe's versatility?
Duration: 2 hours
Details: For women only. Must be within 20 miles of Livingston Manor. Consultation will be scheduled for early Fall, 2015.
Value: $75.00
Minimum Bid: $55.00
Western Sullivan Massage:
A Treat for Your Body
Service Provider: Lucette Ostergren
Details: Treat yourself to a fabulous, one hour massage! Please schedule in advance with the Jeffersonville studio.
Value: $65
Minimum Bid: $35.00
BID: $40...$45...
Wash, Cut and Style
Service Provider: Viv's Cuts and Creations, 90 Main Street
Value: $27.00 gratuity included
Minimum Bid: $15.00
Yoga for You
Service Provider: Ananda Adams
Details: Private one-on-one yoga instruction, just for you, one hour.
Value: $100
Minimum Bid: $35