Connecticut Hill

On Saturday I managed to sneak away from renovations at FOUND for a lovely on site estate auction only a few miles from home.

The site was an old family farm, home to a beautiful old Greek revival farmhouse

and several outbuildings.
At one time the farm was two or three hundred acres.
Today most of the land has gone back to forest and the few
acres next to the house are being farmed for hay.
The view was amazing. The house is perched high in the hills of Newfield, on the opposite side
of the valley from us and has been in the family for generations.
Today a young family with two little baby girls lives there -
a grand niece of the woman whose worldly goods we came to buy.

They had the typical kinds of things you find at a farm auction. The rake is specifically for removing small stones from the field.

The also had non-traditional items as well. An hour before the auction a member of the auction crew picked four large boxes of pears from the trees on the property. They auctioned them off mid way through. Three dollars a box. That's a lot of pears for three dollars. Evidently they were pretty tasty. I came away with some beautiful Victorian prints in frames, some lovely turn of the 20th children's books and lots of great old farmhouse kitchen items including a countertop food safe. I also bought more chairs - two bucks a piece! Now all I need is a little time to get things cleaned and ready for the shop. Wish me luck...school starts tomorrow and soon I'll be spending my days sequestered in an ivory tower.