Dear all,
I am so sorry to make you wait – I know you’re ready to know if you’ve won. But I had an unforeseen interruption today that has delayed my doing the drawing. I want to make sure all is fair and above-board, I want to take into consideration all stated preferences, and I want to closely double-check and make sure I have all entries correctly recorded. I have gotten a good start on that, but with the enormous number of entries I can’t get it all done adequately just yet. You want me to do it right, right? I will! I will post winners first thing in the morning, if not before. ‘Kay?

THANK YOU!