Got a new buy at the auction Friday evening, but before I share that I have to share an almost tragedy.
Fridays are auction days here in Newtonville, have been for 43 years. I head out about 9:00 Friday mornings for the auction centre, Frank has probably left at 7:00, the auction is across the street, maybe 100 steps, make it sound like it's miles.
this is our Auction Centre on Wednesday night of last week and hopefully the last snowstorm, it's taken from our bedroom.
Back to the story... I go in and re arrange furniture to make it appealing, set up china, dishes, crystal, whatever we have, I'm a stager I guess you would say. We go out for lunch and get our supplies for canteen, open for the public at 2:00 auction is 5:00 and we get home at 9:00 or 10:00 that night. Sometimes I run home if I have forgotten something, but usually never return, Frank will slip in to wash and change. Our daughter has been home for the last month and she has a little dog
looks like a pug, not really sure what she is -her name is Prudence. (she is always cold and soaks
up the heat from the fireplace). So this Friday, the two
of them daughter and Prudence are sitting on couch, when Prudence jumps up and looking at
the back of the couch. Their was smoke coming up from it-immediately daughter starts to think that she had done it, she jumps up and starts to move everything, pulls off cushions, pillows,
getting excited, smoke is still coming, goes to the back and I have a sofa table at the back-she
pulled it away and couch is on fire.
Not a big deal when you look at it now, although it does sit in the middle of the room. After she
sees this and gets it to stop smouldering, she starts to investigate and lo and behold on the
bottom shelf of the sofa table is this
and yes I know better, but it was on the bottom of the shelf, but the sun had been shining
through. This was at 3:00 oclock, we wouldn't have been home until 9:00 that night and
our home would have been pretty bad, by the time we did get there. Customers at the
auction would have seen something-we have parking around our home and most times they are
pretty observant. Prudence saved the day... Thank you Prudie.
Now unto my exciting buy at the auction, we had a Welsh Cupboard for auction
this is from the families home, on our web page. I have looked for something like this for
years, so I was so excited. It's oak and I'm not an oak lover, said if I bought it I was
going to paint it black, Frank almosts has a heart attack. But I have already painted another
oak cupboard black, and he likes it. This cupboard would replace a pine 1950's cupboard
that is four feet tall, with the glass at the top and drawers below with doors below that.
Usually pine colour and sometimes thin stripe of red on them. But mine was painted black,
who would figure, and I loved it, but our ceilings are high and it just never looked right. No
picture of it, can't believe it.
Well I bought it, had me worried for a couple of bids (when I want something at auction I get
another person to bid for me, it's not right if I bid against customers or it doesn't look
right). Well I didn't have a tea party today because I have been arranging and arranging,
exhausted...
Put my red transferware in it, Royal Winton cups and antique red glass and fiestaware below.
That's it for my tea, rearranged the other cupboard too and by the time I washed everything and
got it displayed, too late for tea. Had a late tea though with Frank. I'm so pleased with the
cupboard, only problem, light switch is behind it, will figure out something...
oh -to add to the fire story, one of our grandsons-Max lives on the other side of the auction centre-we are one side and he's on the other, well last night he woke up to go to the bathroom and saw a light flashing, woke up his mom and dad. His dad (our heroic son) says "it's probably your play station
you left on-you know better Max", he says no it's not it's downstairs. So mother says Oh I'll go check. She had fallen asleep and lift a candle burning and it was in flames, Max screaming that they had to get out of the house-they were going to die, very exciteable, but to make their story a happy
ending they got the fire out, have some cleaning to do were the was splattered when she poured water on it -but all ends well in their home too. And yes everything comes in threes-not going there...
and if all goes well tomorrow I just may have a tea to share. I'm sharing this post with
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