Norris Family Blog

Comparison Shopping

Stacey and I began the day by going to Grumpy's and eating breakfast with Jason. A quick stop at the bank and back to the farm where we took Daisy for a run around the hay fields and fed her. Daisy had thrown her collar off somewhere while running loose. About 10 AM we backed the HHR out of the garage and went to Wal-Mart in Columbia to buy a new choker chain dog collar. After picking out a collar, on the way out, we stopped and looked at the mums Wal-Mart was selling for $7 each.
 
The trip home was a nice ride as the leaves on the trees are just barely starting to change colors. The road was almost deserted as we drove the 20 miles back to the farm.
  
  
I parked the HHR in the garage and Stacey walked down and picked up the mail. A little later, we went to the mum patch in the Mule and took a few pictures to compare our mums to the ones at Wal-Mart. We are getting near time when we could be hit with the first frost of the season. Last year the first frost was on Oct 13th and in 2005 the first frost was on Oct 31st.
    
After taking the pictures of the mums we rode around the hay fields and drove down the almost dry creek bed to the end of our property. Usually there is water in the creek about 6 inches deep in that area. We rode to the back of the 'holler' behind Regina's house and checked out the job I had done the day before bush hogging. I had knocked down some of the bushes and vines growing on the old barn back.
  
At the end of the day, the hay wagon was empty of mums and will need to be refilled tomorrow morning as we have people wanting more mums.