Norris Family Blog

Mum Patch Update

Wednesday morning Stacey, Linda and I rode in the Mule to the mum patch and I began digging mums with Linda potting them and Stacey carrying the potted mums to the trailer behind the Mule. We had dug one mum and Stacey put it on the trailer, then looked at us and said she was starting to twitch. I unhooked the trailer, we rode in the Mule back to the house and by then the twitching was getting worse. Linda gave Stacey and 10 mg Valium and about 15 minutes later, I gave Stacey another 10 mg Valium. It took a few minutes but her twitching subsided. A little after noon, Linda gave Stacey another 5 mg of Valium, then a half hour later another 5 mg for a total of 30 mg in less than 4 hours. I decided that we should take Stacey to see Dr Rice at his office, so we loaded in the truck and drove to town. I pulled to the back door, opened it and rolled a wheel chair outside and placed Stacey in it. As I rolled Stacey in the back door, the nurse directed us into an examination room and in about 10 minutes Dr Rice came in to see how Stacey was getting along. He explained what we should do for Stacey the remainder of the day if anything else occurred. After about 20 minutes of consultation, we returned to the farm. Linda stayed with Stacey and I went to the mum patch and dug the mums we absolutely had to dig for a customer. I returned to the house and Linda watered the mums while I cooled off and stayed with Stacey. We worked like that a couple more times during the remainder of the day. Stacey never required any more Valium and just had mild involuntary movements.
Thursday morning, I went to the mum patch about 6:30 AM and dug mums, then back to the house and watered them and set them in the hay shed. Linda, Stacey and I took the Mule and let Daisy run around the hay fields since she hadn't been out of the barn the day before. We were about half way around when I noticed Daisy had run right over the top of a snake laying in the trail. I ran over the snake with the Mule and stopped a little past it. I took the shovel out and chopped it's head off. Daisy came back and was a little scared of the dead snake.
 
We went back to the house and put Daisy in the barn, then Linda, Stacey and I went to the mum patch and dug a trailer load of mums. I'm guessing that the mums in the patch are about half gone.
   
Regina came down and helped us finish the trailer load and then we went back to the hay shed and watered the mums I had dug yesterday. They are supposed to be picked up on Friday.