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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Daisy = Pond Scum
Yesterday, Linda let Daisy run loose around the farm while she was
setting the mums and pumpkins around the front of the barn.
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Daisy
stayed with Linda until she heard something at the pond. Linda went to
see where Daisy had gone and found a mess. She came inside and picked up
a camera to document the mess. We have found that Daisy is a frog
hunter. She sneaks around the pond until she scares a frog into jumping
in the water. The drought has the water so low in the pond that it's
mostly muddy water. No matter, Daisy follows the frog into the muddy
water like she's going to be able to catch it. She hasn't caught one yet
and if she does she will probably spit it right back out. I've saw other
dogs catch frogs and the warts on them make the dogs froth at the mouth
and sling their heads around like crazy.
Linda
had to hose her off afterwards.
This morning we left the house at 7
AM and went to Regina's yard to move mums into the back of her truck for
her to take to town and give to the people that had ordered them. After
loading her truck, we headed to the mum patch to dig mums and we took
Daisy to let her run inside the fenced in patch. The patch is beginning
to show color on most of the mums now, so we can show people what color
they are buying. We dug enough to fill the black trailer with yellow
mums, then took them to the hay wagon in Regina's yard and set them on
the wagon. We're keeping most of the mums on the wagon in the shade.
We
went inside our house, took our medicine, ate a quick bite for breakfast
and went back to the mum patch. We dug and potted another trailer full,
then hauled it to Regina's and again unload the mums to fill the hay
wagon. Linda watered all the mums we had dug while I put Daisy back in
the barn and unhooked the trailer.
We
went inside and I fixed lunch before Linda left for the day care. We are
about out of mums on the wagon now and Regina came home with orders for
15 more she needs to take tomorrow. Looks like we will be digging mums
until dark again tonight.