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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.
  
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.

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