Auction Night

We LOVE auction night and tonight was even more fun than usual. It was my granddaughter's birthday and Rhoda insisted on taking the trailer just in case there would be a suitable pony for her. Amy Koch and Karin came with Rhoda and I. Usually the auction is visited for 3 main items we can NEVER have enough of, buckets, manure forks and halters but for some reason (perhaps 30 of them) Rhoda wouldn't let me bid on buckets. Amy Koch on the other hand went down to buy one and started looking at more, Rhoda yells down, "just walk away Amy, just walk away," but of course that didn't work, Amy bought 6 buckets then sold 3 of them to me. At $3.50 a bucket we thought it was a great buy.

When the manure forks came up for bid I was able to get 6 of them for $12.00 each.

The lady behind me bought a beautiful blue cowboy hat we were all drooling over. Below is the happy winner.
The other items purchased tonight were 3 bunches of used halters $2.00 a bunch, a brush and comb lot, fly spray, one English stirrup leather, 2 sets of 3 tier saddle stands, and a new thick Western saddle pad for $7.00.
Karin was looking for a suitable horse for their therapy program, Rainbow Riders in Monmouth, IL. There were only 5 horses to go through the ring and none were suitable for that program. If anyone has a horse or large pony for sale cheap or free lease that can walk, trot, and canter that would be able to handle at risk and handicapped kids please email us. This program lost one of their perfect horses this winter and they really need to replace him.
We drove home from the auction in another thunderstorm, through bright flashes of lightning and driving rain. The truck and trailer are parked in the Bridlewood drive until tomorrow morning when it will be taken out to the Horsemeister farm.