Vide Grenier

Literal translation for "Vide Grenier" would be "Empty the Attic".  In Canada, we would call this sort of event a garage sale.  About 5 streets were cordoned off so people from Ceaucé as well as nearby towns could set up their "treasures".



 

 

Old milk can.  The 3-legged half-stools are decorative only and not the same as the ones used when milking, which have a complete round circle seat. 

Mémère had an old coffee pot like this!  And a similar biscuit tin.

Horse shoes and nails.

Many of these are well-used copper pots, but copper nevertheless.  Clean them up and they'd be worth a small fortune!

This record reminded me of Laurette Villeneuve, a spinster who visited from Quebec every few years, and would sing, "J'avais vingt ans pour les yeux d'une femme; Un mot d'amour faisait battre mon coeur..."

Love these two warming pans.  Put a few embers in them then place the pan between the cold sheets and your bed is toasty before you get in.

What caught my attention with this canister set is the word "chicorée" for coffee.

Martha Stewart has copied these pitchers!  I use my green one as a flower vase.

The pot on the left could be used for camping since it has a stand that could go over fire or coals.

Old ammo boxes.  (Ammunition.)

What a wonderful match box!  An old neighbour from my childhood, Donat Durand, had a white one like this hanging on his kitchen wall next to his wood stove.

This juicer caught my attention.  The saleslady tried every tactic to get me to buy it, including wrapping it for me, mailing it for me, etc.  It was very old and quite amazing.  Would be great to make apple purée.

More milk cans.

"Poubelle à Fruits de Mer" means seafood garbage.  Actually, once you finish with your lobster and muscles and other seafood, the remains are not thrown out just yet.  They are boiled and made into a wonderful seafood broth, so that's why this "garbage" is made of porcelain and is quite fancy.

The clothes iron in the upper left corner could be found in a museum!  This is one of the originals that actually carried the coal embers inside its body.  Later models simply got warmed up on a grate and there were usually two in use at a time, one to iron and the other warming up.  As for the 4 containers on the right, it would appear that some priest is without his holy water...

We never had a cocoa box like this one.











All that shopping gave people an appetite, so this guy had a BBQ going (or perhaps it was a smoker...) and served up sausages and steak.

I wonder if uncle Gunter needs us to bring back any garden implements.

Mom's old Singer wasn't as old as this one which only has the foot pedal to provide power.  Mom's was electrical.

Another canister set that caught my attention.  This one has a container for pepper and another for spices.

Gosh, this might have been around for Marie-Antoinette!  Ok, I exaggerate, but this is a curling iron for very tight hair ringlets.  Not an electrical cord in sight!

Fireplace bellows.









There were some real treasures for sale.  Some of these items would go for a small fortune in Canada!  Yet, they were on sale for a pittance.

Then we got to the section of town where a few games were set up for the kids.  

Fish Pond

These kids were particularly keen on shooting balloons to win a stuffed toy prize.

This stuffed plushy cow was the grand prize! 

And then there was the Merry-go-Round, "Le Manège".

We managed to tour everything between the cloud bursts and the thunder.  What fun!