Major Mum Dig

Linda called Regina last night to see if we had the 75 mums sold. She said yes, they wanted them. About 6t:30 this morning I went in and told Linda it was time to go dig the mums, she said, "I didn't know it was going to be foggy." I told her that didn't make any difference and I went in to check the email on the computer. Setting in the study, I heard someone honk and I looked out the window. I yelled at Linda and Stacey and told them that Regina went down the road honking her horn. I went outside and let the ducks out, and Regina pulled back in the driveway. Linda was getting up by then and I went down to the wagon in the yard and Regina and I set off the mums we already had dug. Linda and Stacey came out, so I told Stacey to ride to the mum patch with Regina. I hooked up the black trailer to the 4-wheeler for Linda to drive to the patch while I got the tractor and hooked the hay wagon behind it.
I shoveled out the mums and put some dirt in the pots while Linda and Regina placed the plants in the pots. Stacey carried the potted mums to the trailer hooked to the 4-wheeler. Once we filled the trailer we drove it down to the creek and took the mums off and set them in the creek in water about 3 inches deep. We then went back and I dug more mums while Stacey carried the potted mums to the trailer that Regina and Linda had finished. We were getting about 18 mums on each trailer load and taking them down and setting them off in the creek. After 3 loads in the creek, I pulled the hay wagon down to the creek and turned it around so we could walk on the dry rocks, pick up the mums that had been soaking in the creek and place them on the hay wagon. The creek water was soaking the dirt in the pots better than watering from the top would have done. A couple more trailer loads, setting them in the creek, and it filled the hay wagon. I used the tractor to back the hay wagon full of mums into the old barn to keep them out of the sun. We picked up the rest of the mums from the creek and left them on the trailer behind the 4-wheeler in the old barn too. So we had dug about 80 mums, watered them and had them setting on the wagon and trailer in the barn. We headed back to the house and Regina went to work. When we got home, I went inside, turned on the shower, and guess what? No water. We couldn't wash our face, hands or clothes. Whatttttttt? Linda called the water dept. to see if anyone had reported it, they said yes, they were fixing a leak and didn't know how long it would be off. Great. We ate lunch with dirty faces and hands. As that wasn't bad enough, about a half hour later, we heard the door bell ring, and our neighbors from down the creek, Sadie and Bob Smith were at the door. We let them in and talked a while, explaining why we were so dirty. They wanted to buy mums too, so after about an hour of conversation we went down and dug them 7 mums. When we returned home the water was back on. I was first in the shower, with Linda and Stacey following once I was finished. Late in the evening, Regina called again and told us she needed some more mums, so Linda and I went back to the mum patch to dig those. We were digging mums and watering them and it was dark. Overall, the total was 97 mums dug today. Too many for my back, but we're happy to sell them, so I guess it was a 'good thing'.