Selling Mums

I started mowing around 11 this morning and mowed the barn lot and around the house. I came inside and Linda fixed us some hamburgers for lunch. She was working on her 'homemaker' stuff, as there was a meeting later in the day. She made a Banana Split Cake to take and was getting the 'bags' ready to give to the members. We had made a Krafty Kritters T-Shirt transfer and Linda had ironed them on the bags. We had to make one more as she had forgot about a member that hadn't been there in a while. After eating the burgers, I went back out and started mowing the yard down in front of the house. I saw Stacey and Linda leave in the Mustang with the top down and heading for town. I was listening to my MP3 player while mowing so the mowing was going OK. After about 2 hours of mowing, I finished the yard and headed up the driveway. I noticed that a pickup truck was following me up the drive. I stopped the mower at the top and took off the music player. A man asked if this is the place that sells mums and I told him it sure was the place. I jumped on a 4-wheeler and he followed me to the mum patch. He was a minister at a church near Columbia and wanted to buy about 16 mums. He asked if they were $3 and I said yes. He wanted to know if he bought 17, would I sell them for $50. I said I sure would. He said he wanted them and grabbed a shovel out of his truck. Since he was going to help, I counted out 20 pots and told him to set them down near the ones he wanted and I would dig the ones he picked out. I dug them as fast as I could, and still live, and just set them in the pots without adding dirt on top, since he was going to plant them in the ground later in the day. As fast as I could dig them, he picked them up and set them in the back of his pickup. He said, "These are the nicest mums he'd seen." He also told me he had looked at two other patches and didn't buy any of those. Hmm. I ended up giving him 20 mums for $50 and told him if anyone else wanted them they were $3 each, but that he had got a deal for helping out. He said thanks, we shook hands and he started to leave, then turned and said, "We might be back to get some more." I said that would be good. I rode home a little slower to cool off. I got a glass of ice water and set down and what ya' know, Linda and Stacey came home, after the work was done. Linda was still busy getting stuff ready for the homemakers meeting. She went to that at 4:30.