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Antique Week at Madison-Bouckville

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We arrived here on Monday and began to set up for a week of selling. I have to say I've never seen anything like this little town before. As I heard one person joke there are more antique shops in this town than there are people. This amazing little town, located right outside of Syracuse New, York, is host to a massive antique week long festival that covers several different fields all the way through town. This one town has survived for 40 years because of this one week event every year.  As we walked through town last night, Donnie and I estimated this show probably cover 2 miles square miles. Some of the dealers travel from field to field. My friends have tried to get me here for the last several years but we always had a conflict. This year we made the date work and I'm glad that we did. We chose to setup only at the Cider House Field for the entire week long event (if you know me you know I have too much stuff to be packing up and literally hauling across the ro...

Courtney's Farm....

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As many of you may know we have been working very hard on an upcoming estate sale.  We've been referring to it strictly as "the farm".  I have liquidated several farms over the years but this one has been one of my favorites.  There have been so many finds, with digging out the barn, an old one room school house, crib, chicken house, garage, and don't forget the house itself.  Not only is it challenging digging out all of these different places, we threw in an added bonus...Courtney.  She has cleaned, polished, taped, dug, rode in the Polaris Ranger, right in stride with us all of the way.  When she wasn't helping she was digging holes in the backyard (please watch your step), swatting flies, and just loving the farm life.  Most people mark special memories of their child's "firsts" in their baby book.  In Courtney's I have added for August 2nd she cleaned out her first barn.  What an experience that was.  Donnie was lowerin...