Cold Fest!

It was quite cold this morning as we left for the Hamfest....  I hung back about an hour but the other guys went out about 6:30...  They go so early because they need to lay out all their wares on the tables to be ready to sell before they open the main gates at 8...

When they left the hotel, it was 38 degrees with a light frost on the ground....  Here in Ohio, I haven't seen any field work that has been completed this spring...  But back in Iowa, much of the corn has already come up...  We don't really need this freezing stuff with the baby plants above the ground...

Then mid morning it began to rain... By then it was about 42 degrees, but still it was darned cold...  Many folks went inside the arena buildings and it was shoulder to shoulder in there....  We sat outside in our tent enclosure, drinking coffee...  Some of the guys went to seminar meetings in different parts of the buildings....

I'm not real sure where the day went, but I was all over the grounds looking at table after table of old electronics stuff...  I have way too much of that at home already, so I didn't buy much of anything...  But it is fun to stop and talk to all of the folks about the things on their tables...

We have sold or otherwise managed to unload more than half of the stuff that came here from home... But tomorrow, a lot of new to us stuff will find its way back into the trucks and trailers...

Let me tell a brief story about a fellow from New York that has had a spot across the aisle from us for years...  He drove over with his chevy suv, and got out leaving the back end of the vehicle open...  And as he was looking over our tables, one of our guys was busy loading table top Motorola radio chargers into the back of his car....  They are on almost everyone's tables as they are available in massive abundance...  So they are consequently virtually worthless....  Eventually he awoke to what was happening..... Challenging our guy Les as to what he was putting in his truck...  Laughter burst out for a long time... as he protested.....  We haven't seen him since last year, but that didn't matter... He's fair game..

So all those chargers are now over on his site, taking up space on his tables....  They'll end up in the trash barrel by Sunday...

And then again tonight as the day was ending, it began to rain again....  So we broke up our store tables and headed to the local Pizza shop..  Each of us in turn went to the counter and ordered a pizza for the center of the table...  Or a pitcher of beer or soda, until we were so stuffed we couldn't make it to the parking lot...

Tomorrow will be another hamfest day, with all the newcomers that couldn't come today because they had to work......  Fresh meat......!

Retired Rod