Dad passed away almost 2 years ago, Mom is in the nursing home and has dementia. So sale of the farm machinery was not a difficult decision but the process of getting things ready was quite a challenge. Dad had mentioned selling the farm stuff 6 to 8 months before he passed away but had decided it was too big a chore. But we (with the very generous help of the neighbors, could not have done it without them) put stuff on hay racks, took recyclables to the dump, lined up the farm machinery in the yard, and sorted thru 3 generations of miscellaneous stuff not knowing what some of it was in our attempt to get things in order for the auctioneer. Sale day came. It was a long day. We were surprised by what caught the buyer’s eye. It was good to have so much of the stuff removed by someone else. Now time marches on and we are trying to take care of business as best we can.