Picking

Let the season begin! The on-site auction season that is. These out of the way, rural sales are my favorite. Yesterday we ventured two hours south to Jersey Shore, PA for a day of great buying, fabulous people watching and delicious food truck eating. The forecast predicted 60 for the high temp but we decided we wouldn't leave warmth and comfort to chance and instead suited ourselves head to toe in thermal underwear, fleece, hoodie and coat. Too bad one of us didn't realize it might be muddy...

The sale was held in the back yard of a decrepit old house. The number of additions on the house nearly rivaled the number of old falling down out buildings out in the yard. As we arrived the auction staff was still pulling boxes out from the basement, the barns, the chicken coop. It was a picker's dream. There were enough boxes of Christmas decorations to easily fill our car three times over. Seems the woman who lived here had many hobbies and interests

We scored a spot under the tent and stayed gavel to gavel. Highlights of our haul include three AMAZING cased images (two daguerreotypes and an ambrotype), two beautiful photo albums FILLED with great photos and one of the best (and biggest) boxes of vintage linens I've gotten in a looooong time. We bid on a lot of furniture but prices were just a little to rich for our blood. I did however come home with a vintage beer cooler disguised as a single wash tub

and not one but TWO pairs of old moss covered concrete porch urns.

I can't wait to fill our booths at FOUND with garden themed items.
Better get myself ironing and tagging...