Festival Day

Things started early this morning, with Brent and I taking the truck and placing hay bales in back with the wheelbarrow in there also. Linda was driving the Mustang with Stacey and Pauline riding along to the mum patch. We dug about a dozen mums,picked close to 20 pumpkins and headed into to town to setup our display in front of the Center for Aging. We pulled in front of the building and we built a couple haystacks with mums and pumpkins setting on them. As soon as that was done, we walked over to the Corner for breakfast. It took about a half hour to get our order and eat. Once back in front of the center Linda reminded me that Stacey and I hadn't taken our pills. We trucked back to the farm and had our pill race, picked up some Zebra Cakes for Pauline and headed back to town. By the time we were back in there, they had sold all our Purple colored mums, so we needed to return to the patch to refill our supply. We dug 10 Purple and 10 Red, set them in the creek to water them and then set them in the truck and back to town. It was around 1:30 by then, there had been a few more sales and some hay bales were sold too. We placed the rest of our mums on the ground and hay bales. By then we were taking turns going down to the Festival and looking around or getting sandwiches. Pauline, Stacey, Brent and I went down and picked up sandwiches for everyone including Regina and Linda. Regina had been having trouble with her stomach, but she was able to eat a tenderloin sandwich we brought for her. About 5 PM, I walked down with Stacey and Linda and we looked around for a while. I told them I was going to stay and listen to the Blue Grass Contest. There were 8 groups that played for a $1500 prize, $750 for second, $500 for third and $200 for fourth with 5th place getting $100. They also had a 'duck race' drawing for $500. None of us won anything, including 3 quilts that were raffled off. As the BG Contest was nearly over, they all showed up and said they had packed up and were headed home. I decided to stay a while longer as it was just about time for the main band, Pine Mountain Railroad to take the stage. They announced the winners in the BG Contest and then PMR took the stage and played about an hour. After they were done, I went home, even though there was going to be another hour and half of music from the contest winners.