Tom is a 25+ year resident of Germantown and the surrounding community. He currently lives in Hubertus with his wife and two small kids on a hobby farm near Bark Lake. Tom's blog will likely not save the world, but hopefully, you'll get some enjoyment from his ramblings.
Having moved into our hobby farm two years ago now, my wife Stephanie and I came to the conclusion that we simply had too much junk piling up around the place. We had countless boxes of stuff that hadn’t even been opened since we moved in, and a few others so full of junk that it made me wonder why we even moved them in the first place! I use the term “junk” loosely here, as a lot of our stuff was good stuff, but just not stuff we use anymore. So, we decided the best way to get rid of all this stuff was to host a Barn Sale.
I could bore you with all the details of our sale and the work we did to prepare for it, but I won’t. Instead, I’ll offer a simple observation – the $400 bucks we made fails in comparison to the many new friends and neighbors we met, and the many interesting conversations we had. The conversations were varied, and included such intriguing subjects as politics, golf carts, gas prices, organic eggs, collectibles, horse manure, fainting goats, dogs, children, cooking, marriage, etc. etc. etc. At least a dozen of our “customers” offered some sort of historical knowledge of our farm or our neighborhood, all of which were extremely entertaining.
We weren’t successful in selling all of our junk in just one weekend of the sale, so we may put the signs out another weekend or two as the weather continues to warm up. So, if you are in the Bark Lake area and see signs for our “Barn Sale”, feel free to stop by and chat for a while. We’d love to meet you. Who knows, maybe you’ll even find some junk to buy yourself!
And if you do get a chance to drop on by, please don't bother using the line, "Is this the barn that's for sale?", as we've heard that one a hundred times already!
G’Night G’Town!
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure. ~Author Unknown
