As promise my sweet friends....I am going to make your mouth water!
It was a crazy morning. Nicholas was just starting to make it through the school day without needing me and I had already run errands. It was only 9:30 and my girls had told me about an auction that they wanted to check out.
I swung by and picked them up and we were on our way in the White Rhino, thats my trucks name.
My copilot, Annette has the best way to travel, county roads...the smaller the better. Off the beaten path. We laughed so hard at all the names of the roads around here. I will be naming my next child
"Chula"....just sayin.
The bidding started at 10:00 so we were a tad late.
It was the coolest, funnest auction ever. Have you ever been tailgating?? Of course you have!!
I am from Michigan Sate University so ...YES...love to tailgate.
This was a tailgating auction minus the keg.
Those selling pulled their trucks into a large circle with the tailgates down and unloaded the big stuff. The caller rode in the back of a four wheeler and moved around the circle.
I was scoping out the boxes full of old jars and bitters bottles. Little did I know that some of the really old guys were scopin out me.....lol
See....I have a problem with bling. You know it...you've seen it. I over dress ....all the time. So when I got dressed in the morning knowing I was heading to the country for a field auction....what else do you wear...but..cowboy boots and cut offs..... Not tacky short short..please I am too old for that garbage...just cute. Back to the bitters bottles.
I wanted those bottles bad....they were in horrid shape but they were cool. I played it smart and did not return to the box..just walked past casually and never touched the box. That is a rule....never touch a lot that you really want...dead give away. Look at everything around it but never right at it.
BIdding started......$7.oo chanted Tom.....I stayed quiet...about killed me but ..nope..not a word. And my dream came true...I wanted to see if I had any competition for them.....not a sound. So I yelled $5.00......and
"SOLD!! to number 161 the cougar in the cowboy boots."
THere were about 20 old bottles in that box and they were dirty. Like buried for years out back somewhere kind of dirty. This picture was taken after being soaked, sprayed and run through the dishwasher a few times......
These three are my favorites....they have cork tops and are super heavy.
THere were about 8 soda bottles. Three are Pepsi ones and are super collectable and the rest are local soda companies from the 30's. By local I mean that back in the day, the big three had bottlers all over. Coke , Pepsi and Mt. Dew...the little guys in Lynchburg VA...bottled their own stuff called PAL. This heart bottle is a PAL soda bottle. It was fun learning about the jars and bottles. It makes me happy to have saved them and now they decorate my home. Well..the clean ones do....lol
