Hey bidder,bidder, bidder

This morning Cherry Pie and I got up and went to the huge consignment auction In Holt Missouri held at Old Bills Mill. The mill is actually the old grain elevator in town. It must be a hundred or more years old. The attached listing is not a full bill as they were taking consignments up to the day of the sale. I think this is the third or Fourth annual auction. This year it was absolutely HUGE. They had everything from rabbits to dozers. Mowers, bikes, junk, guns, tools hardware, the list goes on and on. We brought home a very nice brass light light to hang in the entry way. We have been pricing big lights for this duty and they all start about a hundred and go up from there. I ended up getting it for 35 dollars. I saw a structural foam garden cart this I really wanted. We had already been there 2 and a half hours and it looked like the cart was 4-5 hours away! My knees and back were killing me by that point so I turned my bidding number over to my sister in law as she was supposed to be there for a long time to bid an a corn planter for her hubby. She didn't make it long enough for the cart or the planter. The auction company was running two rings and they really needed 3 or 4 to speed up the process. There were at least a thousand people there today. I was bidder 519 and a lot of folks signed up after me. Add in the looky loos and the number really goes up. In this rural part of the country a big auction is as much entertainment as a place to get some real deals on many things. Contrary to the last few action I have been to the prices were really low today. We'll see about going next year and make a plan to last longer. Holt is a little bitty town and the auction is held on a Sunday so, there isn't anything to do or go to or see. Nothing has change since I grew up there except more people. So, plans have to be made. Maybe a picnic dinner in the adjacent park and some lawn chairs to ease the day. Hopefully the next auction will be as good as this one was.

Missouri Firearms Freedom. Bad cop, bad.

FINALLY! Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis has pre-filed the Missouri Firearms Freedom bill for the 2010 session. In essence this bill is the same as the ones introduced in Montana and Tennessee. Only in Missouri the guns will have to be stamped "Made In Missouri" . Of course. Hey, I can hardly wait for the bill to be passed and The Show Me State to get their letter from those fun loving boys and girls down at AY TE EF headquarters saying even though the US Constitution says you can do this we say you can't. Such naysayers. I can already hear the gears clanking in the new factories busily turning out AR15's, 1911, and other such goodies. It's too bad none of the various bills of this sort attempt to proclaim state sovereignty of the full auto spectrum of firearms rights. Imagine the jobs that would be created by this sort of law. HOORAH!
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My brother told me a story today that is very interesting. He lives in the county, OUT of city limits. He had a small fire going to burn up some stick and leaves. A town cop left his jurisdiction to order him to cease his dangerous activities. My brother informed the cop he was out of his jurisdiction he had no enforcement powers effectively making him an ordinary citizen. Brother then went on to order the trespassing "citizen" off his property. Local Po Po proceeded to place his hand on his sidearm at which point my brother called for his wife to call 911 and report an armed intruder on the property and asked his son to bring the shotgun out. When the County Sheriff arrived he found my brother holding a 12 gauge on the cop and the cop with his hand on his sidearm. The Sheriff ordered the local cop to remove his hand and place both hands on the car! My brother safed his weapon and let the County Officer examine the gun. Sheriff proceeded to order the local off the property with the warning that he had already delivered a lecture on this kind of activity to the entire PD of Holt Missouri and the one cop in particular.
Kudos to the Clinton County Sheriff. The local cop in question is no longer employed by Holt.