Rain from Katrina is Gone

We were lucky, most of the rain and wind from Katrina went to the west of us. We still got over 3" of rain as the storm system made it's way north past KY. Stacey and I went down and checked the mum patch and it looked in pretty good shape. There was a little standing water, but the rain really helped the plants turn greener and get bigger.
 
Three days of rain has just about made our grass 'out of control'. I started mowing about 8:30 in the morning and quit about 4:30. It was slow going with heavy dew in the morning making the grass stick under the mower. So I mowed the shortest grass first and let the taller sections go until later in the day so it could dry some. The section where the old house used to be had to have the mower deck raised so the mower would go thru without choaking it. One benefit is the grass on the hill in front of our house has filled in a bit more.
 
Stacey, Linda and I left for Smith's Grove about 5 PM to pick up the red trailer and bring some more 'stuff' back to the farm. We also went to Pauline and Brent's house to visit a little while. Brent, Pico and Poco were home, but Pauline was still working late. We stayed about an hour and then met Brent at Wendy's in Smith's Grove for some eats before we headed on home making it about 9 PM
 
This will probably be the best picture of the mum patch as we have started digging them for sale now. In fact, we had dug 10 plants before I took the picture above.