While the men hope to get a good deal on a saw blade or a gun in another area of the farm, or they are at work carrying heavy furniture to be displayed as it comes up for auction, some women and girls stand near the "quilt and furniture barn" to keep an eye on things there.
 

Other women are busy in the garage that becomes a large kitchen for a day, complete with wood cookstoves where they make popcorn and sandwiches and fresh glazed donuts to feed hungry auction-goers. 

Some of the Amish women take turns working in the barn, displaying each quilt on a frame as it comes up for bids, while others take inventory of the quilts still waiting to be auctioned.
 

(About 100 quilts were sold that day.)
 

The quilt sale provides a lot of money to keep the Amish school operating, and Amish families provide a lot of children to keep the school full.
 

Except while with their families or at the main house, where Amish women took turns operating a childcare center during the auction, I didn't see many (or any!) groups of boys and girls together.