Although the skies weren’t sunny last Saturday (May 18), the 44th annual Ashmont Hill Yard Sale was a bright spot for deals and bargains on good stuff – as well as some neighbor-to-neighbor bartering. The event brings thousands of bargain-hunters from other parts of Dorchester and beyond who flood the streets looking for antiques.

On Ocean Street, Jill Carrier and her husband, Paul Duncan, pulled out an old push mower to sell. They bought it decades ago from a neighbor and recently got a new motorized mower. However, Carrier began mowing the lawn with it and decided it was too good to sell.

“We were going to sell it, but now I’ve decided to keep it; it does such a good job,” she said. “We moved here in 1986 and I bought this from a neighbor up the street. Today I was going to sell it. This is the ultimate recycling effort of each other’s stuff. We buy it and then sell it again. It just keeps going.”

Adam and Tina Roose get things set up in their driveway for the annual Yard Sale.

Jill Carrier was prepared to sell this old push mower, which she bought from a neighbor years ago at the Yard Sale, but at the last minute pulled it back because it did such a good job on the lawn.

Mark Barry and Amy Austin-Calderon delighted in their deals on Ashmont Street – everything from a floor rug to jeans and a cashmere scarf.

William Pope and his sister, Cheryl Fletcher, had brisk business on Ashmont Street, where they’ve set up at the family home since the 1970s.

Founders and CEOs: Hunter and Hudson Husbands were a hit on Waldorf Street where they set up their home-made lemonade stand and found lots of customers looking for a shopping break. Both boys emphasized it was fresh squeezed, and “no powder.”

Mike and Sheila Fesko highlighted this silver tea set at their stand on Montague Street – which was closed off to let children play in part of the street.