The end of an era

Trailer one is up for sale.  Many more to go!

The auctioneer doing his thing

Trailer by trailer items sold for not a lot

The clearing which goes to the tree line was crowded with equipment

In need of a belt?  Buy the pile for not much!

The biggest item on the sale that day

There have been few, if any, farmers like Dale.  His favorite saying was he never went to work a day in his life as he felt farming was not work.  Yet Father Time has ways to intervene and dictate what happens.  Dale went on to a place better than his farm (not sure he would have admitted that) in February of 2018 and now his beloved farm toys went the way of so so many in the past.  There were bargains to be had, money to be spent, food to enjoy, friendship to take part in and much much more but in the end the Lake Park area lost a farmer that was a "farmer" in every sense of the word.  With sweat on his forehead, dirt in his veins and a smile on his face Dale treated his farm and land as if it were his adult McDonald place house!!!  In addition to his farm he served on the school board, plowed the snowy county roads, bladed the dusty county roads, took home many county fair ribbons and much much more.  Deb will continue on the farm and continue being an important part of Lake Park community but her land and some buildings will be rented out to other Lake Park farmers.  I may have said this yesterday but the transformation of the farm in the last 6 months is truly unbelievable.  I walked the area in picture 4 many times as I went to my tree stand and even last fall the weeds were tall, the old equipment was nestled in weeds and trees to the point that I actually wondered last Thursday if I was in the same place.  Deb, family and friends have done a wonderful job.

NO wood shop yesterday.  Morning things were done and then Terry had an eye appointment early afternoon so that was the day.

I took Ben, Agatha and Veronica out for dinner yesterday.  Faustina and Jude were in Washington D C for a fun trip.  We ate at Chick Fal A and then walked across the parking lot to Target.  I thought they could pick out an item or 2 from the dollar rack as you come into the store.  Well they did not like anything there and I did agree with them.  So Agatha said she knew where there would be some things for kids!  The next thing I knew Veronica and Agatha were looking at glitz handbags and so forth!  My mistake, not theirs!  We finally settled on a package of gum for each!  It was a fun time BUT Grandpa may be losing some of his touch.

I will work on the trim for the stairs today but first I need to get on my bike.  Bentley has not seen any action since Tuesday so he has been more than lonesome.  

On Oahu I did grind a bag of Kona Coffee so I do have an excuse to drink it each morning as one would not want it to get stale!  When that is gone (I have 4 more pounds) I will have to decide on a daily bases if "today" is a holiday worth Kona!  So it is sip a bit more and then on to the bike for the day.  Hey, I am retired so I need not get into my work too soon, right?