Digging Mums

After a little over an inch of rain yesterday, the grass was wet and the ground was damp. I went to the hay shed after Linda left and took the front tires off the 8N tractor. The left front had went flat a couple of days ago and both were weather cracked, so I was planning on putting on two new tires and tubes. I tossed them in the back of the Mule and drove to the house, transferred the tires into the back of the pickup and went inside and cleaned up by taking a shower. Around lunch time, Stacey and I headed to town and stopped at Jeff's Tire Service. The guys there told me they didn't have the right size tires to replace the ones I had in the back of the truck. They said it would be at least a week before they could have a set to put on. I said I was going to check a couple of other places. We decided to go back to the house and eat lunch at home. I called a tire store in Columbia and they said they could have the tires tomorrow, so I told them to get them and I would bring my rims up there to have them installed. Linda came home around 5:30 and we went to the mum patch to dig mums. The ground was just right for digging the mums. It was damp enough to hold together when I popped the plants out of the ground with a shovel. Linda was sitting on a milk crate and placing the pots on a 5 gallon bucket turned upside down for a potting table. Stacey was carrying the potted mums and placing them on the wagon.
   
We dug enough to fill the wagon and the back of the Mule, probably around 55 or 60 mums. We are planning on digging more tomorrow so we will have them ready to take to town this weekend during the Bluegrass Festival. I guess we will be selling pumpkins, gourds and hay bales too.