About the only time of year that I eat a hot dog is on an auction day! On a cool, windy afternoon when you need a quick warm-up, we'll wander over to the food trailer and order a hot dog stacked with onions, ketchup, mustard and relish. Top it off with a hot cup of coffee with a brownie to dunk, and you're set to go!
We love going to a farm auction once in awhile. Once in awhile, I say, because it's a great way to spend an awful lot of money in a short amount of time. But, when we peruse the farm paper and see that there's an item or two on the listing that we could possibly use, we try to make the trip if it's not too far away. We have a tie-stall replacement project in the barn that seriously needs to take place. Four stalls are rusted off at the bottom and are not attached to the cement anymore. On this auction there are 5 brand new uninstalled stalls that we could pick up and bring home for our project. When you know what the price is for new ones, you have a pretty good idea of what you will spend when you go to bid. Hopefully there will be people more interested in the machinery and less interested in these stalls. But if we buy them - boy do we ever have a repair/cement job ahead of us. But, it's gotta be done and this may be a less expensive way to get it done.
Now, if I can just keep Farmer Rick's hand down when it comes to bidding on those hay wagons . . .!
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