{"id":20870,"date":"2022-04-14T08:08:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=20870"},"modified":"2022-04-14T08:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T12:13:03","slug":"episode-569-will-farm-sales-ever-return-in-ontario-loss-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=20870","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 569 WILL FARM SALES EVER RETURN IN ONTARIO (loss due to Covid 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 569   WILL FARM SALES EVER RETURN TO ONTARIO (loss due to Covid 19)<\/p>\n

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April 13, 2022<\/div>\n

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For the past 40 or 50 years we have been attending farm sales just about every Saturday.<\/div>\n
Our territory extended as far east as Napanee \u2026 as far north as Orillia and Alliston\u2026as far south<\/div>\n
as Fort Erie \u2026 as far west as Kitchener and assorted Amish and Mennonite communities even<\/div>\n
moe distant.  There seemed to be no end to these sales.  Sometimes we had to choose from<\/div>\n
a list of 10 or 15.  To our boys, Kevin and Andrew, they thought these sales would never <\/div>\n
end.  They loved them as much as we did.  All kinds of weird and wonderful machines were up<\/div>\n
for auction every week end.   Often we filled our truck and trailer with things that no one really<\/div>\n
wanted anymore.<\/div>\n

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Three summers ago Andrew, Jack and I drove west to the Amish School Auction.  <\/div>\n
This auction sound modest but it is one of the biggest auctions in Ontario, especially<\/div>\n
if you are interested in patchwork quilts, wagon wheels, cream scpearadtors, threshing<\/div>\n
machines and a huge cowboy boot.   Only one boot!<\/div>\n

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Some people think the Amish are dour\u2026i.e. do not smile a lot.  Well, this picture<\/div>\n
sure disproves that.  Husband and wife laughing along with their horse who seems to<\/div>\n
find me amusing<\/div>\n

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One of the sad results of the Covid 19 fear is the end of the Amish School Auction.    Will it come back this July?<\/div>\n
Hope so.<\/div>\n

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This is our grandson Jack.  He is unpredictable st times.  And this auction was one of those times.  While Andy and I<\/div>\n
were bidding on machines, Jack bid and won a care full of rabbits.  Rabbits?  We had no place for rabbits.   NO room in<\/div>\n
the truck unless we left something more important like a fanning mill behind. Which is what we did.   At home Jack built<\/div>\n
a rabbit run and enjoyed his rabbits for a short time.  Then one night a fox got them all.  Jack heard the rabbits screaming<\/div>\n
and ran out in his underwear but no luck.  All dead.<\/div>\n

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That\u2019s our son Andrew\u2026.dead centre in blue\u2026looks Amish for sure<\/div>\n
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Just in case you did not know him\u2026that\u2019s Ivan with the head tag.  Need met him before and have no idea why he had<\/div>\n
that bold red tag on his hat.   Amish rake pride in modesty.  But not Ivan.<\/div>\n
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I think we bought this 1890\u2019s cone sheller and the stove.  not sure as already have two.  Why?   Good question.<\/div>\n

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Love this wood seed drill but resisted buying it as fear wood wheels would rot in field. No room in barn.  <\/div>\n
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Bought this wood water trough\u2026perfect condition\u2026never used.  <\/div>\n

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We did buy this baby carriage circa 1870\u2026never know when such will be useful<\/div>\n
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See\u2026I told you the carriage would be useful\u2026for a saddle\u2026.<\/div>\n
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The is Andrew\u2019 truck and trailer\u2026.we filled both.<\/div>\n

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These young Amish girls passed by\u2026close\u2026I think they thought Andrew and Jack were potential husbands.  Auction sales<\/div>\n
are perfect places for Amish to meet each other.<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 569   WILL FARM SALES EVER RETURN TO ONTARIO (loss due to Covid 19) alan skeoch April 13, 2022 For the past 40 or 50 years we have been attending farm sales just about every Saturday. Our territory extended as far east as Napanee \u2026 as far north as Orillia and Alliston\u2026as far south […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}