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Saturday, October 06, 2007
Edmonton Pumpkin Festival
Linda, Stacey and I went to town for breakfast and then returned to the
farm. We took the Mule to the mum patch and dug mums. We had the trailer
about half full when Regina joined us and helped with potting the mums I
dug. We filled the trailer, then pulled it to Regina's front yard and
set the mums on the hay wagon, then watered each mum. We decided to
clean up and go to Edmonton to see what was going on at their Pumpkin
Festival. I took a shower while Linda sold mums to her friend,
Stephanie. Stacey and I picked up Linda and Regina and I drove to
Edmonton. We found a close parking spot, then walked to the Courthouse
Square and began checking out the booths and displays people had setup.
We
strolled around the square amid the booths and hundreds of people. That
was the most people I've seen at the Pumpkin Festival. Regina and Linda
had me take some pictures of things they want to make once we are done
with the mums. We saw one booth selling large mums for $15 each. We
couldn't believe it, we're selling ours for $3 each. Granted, ours were
not as big as the ones they were selling, but there wasn't many people
buying those $15 mums either. We ordered a plate of potato spirals with
cheese and bacon bits. I let Stacey wait on those while I went and
bought 4 cups of fresh squeezed lemonade. I carried those back and once
the potatoes were ready, we set down and enjoyed our drinks and snack.
We took a country road along a creek on the way home that didn't have
hardly any traffic. It was a nice ride on a curvy secluded stretch of
highway. Back at the farm, we dug a few more mums and took Daisy for a
run. Then we dug enough mums to fill the wagon right before sunset.