Photos by Miranda Pederson/Daily News People mill about the array of tents and booths set up today at Rockfield Elementary School.

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Blink and you just might miss one of the numerous yard sales set up along U.S. 68-Ky. 80 for the 400 Mile Sale from Paducah to Maysville.

Shoppers were out early this morning, some said too early for the booths.

“That’s our only complaint - people didn’t get started early enough,” Sheila Kennedy said shortly after 7:30 a.m. today at one of the stops at the edge of Auburn.

Kennedy and her friend Sharon Dennis live in Central City and plan on shopping the whole day.

“This is my first sale,” Dennis said, holding a bag of coffee cups she purchased.

“I took the whole day off to do this, so I’m excited,” Kennedy said.

The pair pulled into the street across from the old Rockfield school, where several people had set up shop on a lawn and at another house down the street.

Ronald Rigsby was minding his area filled with pots of flowers and hanging baskets for sale. He owns Rainbow’s End Plant Co. off Ky. 185.

“This is our third year coming here,” Rigsby said.

He didn’t set up until this morning but said people who were there Thursday when the sale started reported doing pretty well, even in the rain.

But 13-year-olds Hunter Ferry and Jacob Smelly of Bowling Green said sales were a little slow for them.

The two friends were selling clothing, games, CDs and a television. The shorts, still in good condition, were going for $3 and they thought they’d sell the shirts for $4.

Hunter said he planned to put any funds in a savings account for a car. Jacob said he’d probably spend his.

Friends Tiffany Bond and Tonya Harris of Franklin were just getting started on the sale trail. The two said they had their eyes out for new stuff and cool junk.

Down the road at the IGA, some of those vendors had been set up since Wednesday.

Tasha Salbaugh and her crew from Richelieu set up Thursday.

Describing her wares, Salbaugh described it as “junk” - a little bit of clothes, old decorative items and children’s things.

“I sold about $25 worth yesterday, but every little bit helps,” she said.

Susan Galloway of Madisonville spent the night with her daughter, Leigh Mooneyhan, in Rockfield on Thursday night so they could get an early start today.

“We plan to hit as many sales as possible,” Galloway said. “I’ve been wanting to do this for years but it’s my first time.”

Galloway she didn’t give herself a budget.

“I’m looking for an antique book case, glassware and anything else that might interest me,” she said.

Her 6-year-old grandson, Carson, planned to look for Star Wars clones.

They might find them across the street in the parking lot of Rockfield Elementary School, where about two dozen vendors were set up with everything from plants, furniture, children’s outdoor play equipment to toys.

Many more individual sales dot the road between Rockfield and Bowling Green, slowing traffic in one lane or the other.

— For a listing of stops and more information about the sale which continues through Sunday in some spots, go to 400mile.com.