Last Big Dig

Stacey made us Pop Tarts along with coffee for breakfast this morning. She let the ducks out and we piddled around for a little while. I asked Linda to help me hook up the old tractor to the old bush hog. I was planning on using it back in the 'holler' around the trees. I can't get the blue Ford tractor in close enough because it has a top and the scoop makes it too long. It is a lot easier to use the old Ford to trim areas with trees. Around 10 AM we hooked up the black trailer to the Mule and towed it to the mum patch. Linda wanted to dig some mums for the school to use for open house, so we filled up the trailer and headed back to the house. I parked the Mule and mums in front of the garage and jumped on the old Ford tractor and headed back in the 'holler'. I was almost finished when it began to sprinkle rain, so I made a few more passes and headed to the hay shed. As I was rolling across the hay field it began pouring down rain and by the time I pulled the tractor in the hay shed, I was soaked. I walked to the house in the rain because I wasn't going to get any wetter. I changed into some dry clothes and we were ready to take the mums to the school. I pulled around to the back of the school and Linda unlocked the gate and we unloaded the mums, pumpkins, gourds and a hay bale. As soon as we set the mums down, the teachers began buying them. Linda used labels and marked them 'sold' with the teachers' names on which ever mum they wanted. Before we left, we had sold most of the mums. The worst part of that was, we had already sold some of the mums and were supposed to deliver those the next day. We will have to dig 'replacement' mums I guess. After school was out, we set the remaining mums at the front door and returned to the farm. Since it had rained, we decided to dig the mums for the Home Makers. We went to the patch in the Mule with 30 pots and dug mums to fill those. It took a while and Regina stopped after she got off work. We pulled the hay wagon full of mums to the hay shed and parked it inside. We had decided to 'hide' the wagon load of mums in there so no one would stop to buy them.
 
That worked for about 10 minutes. Before we could even walk out of the hay shed, a guy stopped and wanted to buy mums. He looked at the mums on the wagon, but I said those were already sold. He asked if we had more, so we went to the patch and dug him 5 large mums. We made it back to the house just a little before dark.

The guy that had just bought the mums followed us into the driveway. He jumped out of his truck and told us that we didn't charge him enough for the mums he bought. We talked it over and he was right, he paid us the remaining money and we said thanks and then parked the Mule in the barn and went inside.