• 10/6/2007 9:45:06 PMMarinette Auction Wrap-upIf I could describe this day in a single word (as compared to the other auction days) it would be "rain".  Overall we have had a very dry summer.  In the later part of the summer and early fall we have been blessed with good weather.  Not so today.  We had watched the forecast all week to help us try and prepare.  Last night, the weathermen on all the Green Bay stations predicted (aka guessed):
    - Upper 70's
    - Humid

    Mr. Bahrke had warned us earlier that this would be a smaller auction and said that if we sold one case of burgers we would be doing good.  However, a small auction combined with actual weather of 60's and rain...  we didn't see that one coming.  Perhaps I shouldn't say that.  When I got up and checked the sky, it was red.


    The auction was at a small residential home in the city limits of Marinette.  From what I understand, an elderly woman had moved into a nursing home and her children were taking care of her estate.  All the items at the auction were her personal possessions.  We arrived shortly after 8:00 am and setup in the front yard.  We waited quite a while before any customers filtered in to begin looking over the items for sale.  One item that caught Peggy's eye was a 16 QT canner.  They also had a much larger canner for sale.  I'm not sure of the exact size but I'm going to guess it was around 30 QT.  It was massive.  With these two items in mind, Peggy decided to register for the auction.


    In the end, she didn't get either item.  Mr. Bahrke had to work very hard to get anyone to bid on anything.  I think only the die-hard auction fans were in attendance and they only wanted some specific items.  The entire auction was over in 90 minutes.  I fried about 30 burgers of which we ate 8 of them ourselves.  Today's profits - $68.


    There were some highlights to the day.  We traveled up to Peggy's uncle's house for the afternoon.  On the way there we got to see the world's largest chicken.  How can you beat that?