Auction Day

Today Harold and I decided to go to an auction!  It wasn't very far away, only a little more than 5 miles down the road, at a cute little place on the lake.   It was a very HOT day, though, and everyone there was drenched with sweat and things went fairly cheap as far as auctions go.   The first thing I bought was one of those interesting little "dollar boxes", where the auction company puts a whole bunch of stuff in a box and you just buy what's in there.   I wanted the brand new 4-sided kitchen grater that I could see was in the box, and some of the Tupperware.  Nobody else bid against me, so I got it for a dollar.   There were some various mugs in there also, and my neighbor wanted one of them so I gave it to her.  Then I bid on a 3-tiered little table for my library.   I wanted something for next to my reading chair.   Had to pay 10 bucks for it, but it's nice and says 'Ethan Allan' on the bottom.

Then I bid on a nice wall shelf with a door, in Dutch blue.   I will put this on my sunporch and fill it with doo-dads (which I love to collect!).  We are in the process of re-doing the sun porch in red, white and blue.   This week we hope to get paneling for in there, and I have made some new curtains for the 6 windows.   This unit will go on the large back wall.

My neighbor bought 4 dollar boxes of linens and she didn't want some of them (mostly tablecloths) and was going to throw them away.   Of course I said no, I'll take them.   Several nice colorful tablecloths in there, plus a large vinyl one we can use at our table at the Farmer's Market because it has fruits and veggies on it.  Harold bought 4 boxes of canning jars and a box with electric fence wire and other kinds of wire in it.   All in all, it was an interesting auction and a good social time as we saw plenty of folks we knew.  I originally wanted to go to the auction because I'm looking for a small floor cabinet for our bathroom.   Still haven't found that.............