Where do I get that Floridia Auction License?

We had an auction yesterday March 4th and the forcast was for a major winter storm. As I have blogged before, we tend to get good results when the weather is bad. This storm was a little worse than the previous ones and did keep a few people from attending, however we still had a good crowd and sold out our sale. We got great prices on our Lionel trains and the shotguns in the estate, furniture was strong for the most part with good prices on bedroom, and front room pieces, we fell short on a computer hutch but such specialty pieces have a limited appeal.

We did return home to find our auction tent that we had set up for a sale next week completely colapsed. The storm that put 2 or 3 inches at our auction site (we were in a nice heated warehouse), dropped over 12 inches at the site of our next auction (the next one is under the tent). The tent didn't suffer much permanent damage (one tear that we fixed), but it took all day and part of the night to shovel off the tent, find the 24" pegs that were flung by the tent falling, pull the main pole out of the ground where the weight of the teny had driven it down 6" into the ground, re-erect the tent, and shovel under the freshly re-erected tent.

There was a little tunnel in the knocked down tent that I would have loved if I was 12. Truth be known I found it pretty cool at my present age of 49. As I walked through the way cool dark tunnel I hit my 49 year old head on the 2nd main pole which had fallen over to perhaps a 30 degree angle. NOT cool.

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We got the tent fixed today and hung our banner in a few days we will take the cargo trailer over and finish the setup.

This will be one I won't soon forget.