Wednesday March 25, 2009

 

 

Saturday, March 21

My First Mud Sale

Part 1of 3

 

 Most mud sales in our area are held to benefit volunteer fire companies.  This one also benefits a local Amish school.

 

 

 Four nearby churches provided parking space (this one is our church), and local school and senior citizen busses took care of the shuttle service.  The sale was being held just beyond the end of the road on the left side of this photo.

 

 

I went to the sale with my sister (who parked at her daughter’s house) and walked across a field.  This was my first view of items for sale.

 

 

 It was a perfect day for a sale – cold and sunny, with little mud.  These are called mud sales because they are held in springtime when mud often prevails.

 

 

The next few pictures are of horse-drawn implements for sale

 

 

 An old-fashioned manure spreader

 

 

 A liquid manure spreader

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Many items are sold on consignment.

 

 

 

 

 There were five or six auctions going on at the same time, with a record number at bidders – more than 1,300.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 An overview of the fire hall and tents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Several ponies were auctioned at 2:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

 Farmers brought hay, straw, and corn fodder on pickup trucks…

 

 

 …and wagons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Buggies for sale

 

 

 This tent was so full that I could not get inside.

 

 

 

 

There was a tent for the furniture auction.

 

 

 

 

Lawn furniture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Animal pens and sheds for storage

 

 

 Shrubbery

 

 

 There were wagonloads of small items.

 

 

 

 

Amish auctioneers were kept busy

 

 

 

 

Tomorrow’s post – “The Food.”

 

 

The homemade ice cream machine