{"id":3337,"date":"2019-07-21T19:48:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T23:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2019-07-21T20:09:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T00:09:36","slug":"best-of-breed-sequjel-to-the-amish-school-auction-july-202019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"best of breed: SEQUJEL TO THE AMISH SCHOOL AUCTION: july 20,2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
AMISH SCHOOL  FUND AUCTION<\/p>\n
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BIG TIN BOOT WAS BEST OF\u2019BREED\u2019<\/div>\n

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Just for fun look at these pictures  with a sharp eye.  Look for what you think is<\/div>\n
the best of breed\u2026i.e. what you would want in your living room.<\/div>\n

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Lighten up!<\/div>\n

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Now this is just my opinion but if I  was  asked to choose the best of  breed in this <\/div>\n
auction I think the big tin cowboy boot would fill the bill.  it sold  for around $200<\/div>\n
to a man of course.  I tried to catch up to him to get a picture but he was moving<\/div>\n
as fast a Clint Eastwood in a shoot em up movie.  Maybe he was embarrassed.<\/div>\n

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Then I could be wrong.  This huge \u2018man trap\u2019 must have been used to trap bears long ago<\/div>\n
when farmers were clearing the land.  These traps  are illegal I am told.  Bidding was<\/div>\n
feverish.   I think a Democrat from the US House of Representative was the winning<\/div>\n
bidder.  He hustled south.  No, I have no idea why he wanted the trap.   Fun to guess though.<\/div>\n

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THIRTY YEARS AGO we were  buying these dinosaurs of the harvest\u2026.thrashing  machines.  We even had a Lobsinger like this one.  Sadly the tarpaulin<\/div>\n
we used to cover it from rain,  sleet and  snow was not up to the job.  Water slipped in and the wood rotted.   Eventually we hd to set it on  fire but there is<\/div>\n
an upside to the story as a local farmer borrowed our Lobsinger for one last harvest.   That made us feel a little better.  Since then we have shrunk our tastes<\/div>\n
to fanning mills, turnip pulpier, corn shellers, apple pulpers and  cutting boxes.<\/div>\n
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Hats tell a story.  The woman in black  is not Amish or Mennonite.  The boys clearly are.   The hats tell the one from the other.<\/div>\n

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This is my friend  Tom Schell whis is  an avid collector of hay carts\u2026the kind that ran on track high up<\/div>\n
in most Ontario barns.  They were used in the days when horses drew  wagons loaded with cured  hay<\/div>\n
right into the barn threshing floors.  Then a massive hay force was dropped like a twin harpoon into<\/div>\n
the hay load and by a  series of  ropes  and pulleys and hay cars  the loose hay was piled in hay mows.<\/div>\n
Tom has done that\u2026.<\/div>\n

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Now Tom was also a collector  of fanning mills  which, when he downsized his tastes, he delivered the mills<\/div>\n
to our farm.<\/div>\n

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Tom is a contented man.  Witness the smile.<\/div>\n
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 the Amish farms are neat and orderly\u2026.neat as a pin might be  the term although I don\u2019t know the origin <\/div>\n
of the term.  How can a  pin be neat?<\/div>\n

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These pin up girl posters were a little out of place at the auction\u2026.too much leg showing.<\/div>\n

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We bought this elevated  water tough.   Single board  construction.  Tight as a drum.  <\/div>\n
Of course it could also have been a feed bin.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
July 20, 2019<\/div>\n

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AMISH SCHOOL  FUND AUCTION JULY 20, 2019  MILVERTON, ONTARIO BIG TIN BOOT WAS BEST OF\u2019BREED\u2019 Just for fun look at these pictures  with a sharp eye.  Look for what you think is the best of breed\u2026i.e. what you would want in your living room. Lighten up! Now this is just my opinion but if I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}