2009-06-13
Amish Auction and Airplane
There's an small Amish community about 15 minutes north of us and they had an auction today to raise money for their school. We not really looking for anything but thought we would check it out as it sounded a little different. Items were taken on consignment so there was a lot of variety and at one point four auction rings were active ---- farm equipment (machinery, horse accessories, etc) and tools, furniture (new and used) including household items), quilts (more than 100) and horses (more than 100). The quilt and horse auctions even had printed programs briefly describing the item and who the seller was.
Overlooking the farm equipment / tool auction. The first waggon was full of horse accessories (halters, lead shanks, etc.)
The furniture auction --- there were lots of Muskoka chairs and a couple of amazing Oak tables. I find it really interesting to see which items sell well, the amount things sell for and who buys them ---- I'm always trying to pick out the antique dealers.
The quilt auction attracted a lot of attention. The auction was in a tent complete with benches. Anne and I watched about 15 quilts being sold and in that time a woman sitting behind us bought at least 4 of them ---- I'm thinking dealer. The larger quilts were selling for $300 to $500 (pieced or printed seemed to make a big difference in the selling price).
There were lots of interesting faces in the crowd ... people watching at these events is also a lot of fun.
Many of the horses and ponies that were for sale were being road, driven or lead around the farm to garner interest ---- I think some of them were also "test driven".
Even with all the excitement this little guy took a much needed nap.
Ready for the sale.
The horse auction took place in a ring that of course was also for sale. There were four very animated men in the ring who solicited bids from the crowd and each had their own style of letting the auctioneer know when they had a bid --- it took me a minute to figure out what the fancy moves were for.
Tonight was the commencement (???) for the air cadets and one of the fellows in charge of the air cadets arranged for a B25 bomber to fly up from the Heritage Museum at the Hamilton Airport. The bomber was scheduled to arrive at 6:00pm but when we arrived at the local airport at 5:30 there were already a lot of people there ..... we were happy that we knew Anne and Victor and could park at their hanger. The little add in the paper didn't say anything about a charity barbecue but I guess word had gotten around but missed getting to me.
The plane arrived early so they flew over Walkerton and Hanover before landing.
On the ground.
Overlooking the farm equipment / tool auction. The first waggon was full of horse accessories (halters, lead shanks, etc.)
The furniture auction --- there were lots of Muskoka chairs and a couple of amazing Oak tables. I find it really interesting to see which items sell well, the amount things sell for and who buys them ---- I'm always trying to pick out the antique dealers.
The quilt auction attracted a lot of attention. The auction was in a tent complete with benches. Anne and I watched about 15 quilts being sold and in that time a woman sitting behind us bought at least 4 of them ---- I'm thinking dealer. The larger quilts were selling for $300 to $500 (pieced or printed seemed to make a big difference in the selling price).
There were lots of interesting faces in the crowd ... people watching at these events is also a lot of fun.
Many of the horses and ponies that were for sale were being road, driven or lead around the farm to garner interest ---- I think some of them were also "test driven".
Even with all the excitement this little guy took a much needed nap.
Ready for the sale.
The horse auction took place in a ring that of course was also for sale. There were four very animated men in the ring who solicited bids from the crowd and each had their own style of letting the auctioneer know when they had a bid --- it took me a minute to figure out what the fancy moves were for.
Tonight was the commencement (???) for the air cadets and one of the fellows in charge of the air cadets arranged for a B25 bomber to fly up from the Heritage Museum at the Hamilton Airport. The bomber was scheduled to arrive at 6:00pm but when we arrived at the local airport at 5:30 there were already a lot of people there ..... we were happy that we knew Anne and Victor and could park at their hanger. The little add in the paper didn't say anything about a charity barbecue but I guess word had gotten around but missed getting to me.
The plane arrived early so they flew over Walkerton and Hanover before landing.
On the ground.
# posted by The Agnew Family @ 11:57 AM 
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