6 Word Fridays: Exchange

If you don't try it ... you might not know you like it ... 6 Word Fridays!  This week's word is 'exchange.'

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I exchanged my free time for
a ride into Amish and Mennonite
country.  Traded fast highways for county
roads and following a one horse
buggy.  Hoosier Guy and I were
on a mission: fresh local food.

We entered the produce auction in
awe.  Aisles and aisles of nature's
bounty: pears, apples, potatoes, cabbages, corn,
peaches, pumpkins, cushaws, peppers, mums, melons.
All in large quantity, all waiting
for a buyer, two or three.

I bought some molasses cookies - yum!
We had our bidder number - ready
I stood back, watching the auctioneer
move through the aisles, auctioning off
the hard work of my neighbors.

In the end, we exchanged money
for delicious, home-grown veggies, fruits and
baked goods.  Little green slips of
paper for a summer's efforts by
my Amish and Mennonite neighbors.  Hoosier Guy
bought some tomatoes from a girl
was buying a new dress with
her proceeds.  Others had similiar goals.

They thought the exchange was fair,
I wondered how we could process
our auction bounty in a timely
manner - tomatoes yesterday, peaches are tomorrow!