Ah, This is the Life!

Hi there,
I am reporting from beautiful Lancaster, Pennsylvania tonight.

Norb had a huge auction to go to today, so we came in yesterday, giving him a chance to preview things more thoroughly than usual, and the two boys and I were at this resort hotel, having a great time while Norb was at the auction.

We worked our way to a corn maze, which surprised me, thinking that corn mazes were autumn events, but this hotel has one ready for the guests, all green and growing. Somehow or another, we managed to make it out without helicopters overhead dropping rescue workers down to us.

And of course, we spent hours at the pool, which is always a favorite for when we are at a hotel.

For once, I was not plugged into a radio or trying to get pictures taken for eBay, or packing things to ship, also for eBay. (Don't worry if you are waiting for something, I tried to get everything out before we left, and will be right back at it when we return.) I just hung out with my boys today.

So what do you all know about bingo? There was a family bingo night here at the hotel, and once again, we didn't win anything, even though one of us actually got a bingo, it was at the same time as two other people, and we did not prevail in the tie breaker. :-( Do some people have good bingo luck and win frequently, or is it always as dismal as every experience I have ever had, which is not very often, but I think the best I ever did was win a water glass one time many years ago.
It was all in fun, and a nice time with the family and that was enough for me.

Auction Day!

We are back from the Amish country estate auction.
Driving to it was food for the soul, even though we had to get up at an hour is normally the middle of the night for us. It was a day of coffee and energy drinks!

The country roads curve up and down and sideways, with well kept yards lined with flowers. You could catch glimpses of family members at work, either in the fields or the barns and yards. Each home seemed to have well laid out kitchen gardens without a weed in sight. There are many closelines stretching from a porch to a post or out building, fluttering with clothes put out to dry. Many driveways had small signs indicating the specialty of the house. Vinyl window wells. Home made root beer. Plants and baked goods. Quilts and Crafts. I wished I could stop at each one.

The location was a home at the top of a hill, with a tent staked outside on the paved courtyard. We parked and walked past many things laid outside to be sold later. A wringer washing machine, old fashioned plows, a bread box, boxes of glass jars and bottles. Furniture and plants.

A thunderstorm rolled in from the north. It was amazing to watch the men working as a team to first cover and then move the furniture, locate a hose to divert the runoff from the rain gutter, place buckets around the perimeter of the tent, and move the stand where the auctioneer and clerk were trying to carry on while rain landed on their backs. No one had to give orders, it all played out as a well trained team did what they saw needed to be done.

We came home with two quilts, three old street lamps, a cuckoo clock, a small box of golfballs, for the boys, and some old Viewmaster items and a number of vintage and old John Deere toys, among other things..

They will be going up on ebay this week. You can see what is there now with this link, and watch as the week goes on as our treasures show up there.

"QUIRKY - ECLECTIC "99 Cents" ESTATE SALE ON EBAY"