Norris Family Blog

Mum Planting Day

Friday evening Pauline, Brent and Julie arrived about 7:30 PM and Sabra, Jim, Amber and Clayton arrived about 9:30 PM from IN. We talked a while and played with all the kids and went to bed around 11 PM.
Saturday morning, Linda fixed everyone breakfast and we began the day by heading to the patch to plant the mums at 7 AM. We had lots of help, so we took lots of stuff. Jim, Brent, and I were laying out the rows with Jim drilling the holes for the plants with a cordless power driver. I was filling a 100 gallon tank with creek water using the tractor scoop and then watering each hole with a hose from the tank. Pauline and Amber were dropping the plants in the holes and Regina, Sabra and Linda were filling the holes with dirt around the plants. Stacey was watching the two younger kids and pulling them around in the wooden wagon. It was going well with the sky being slightly cloudy and cool. The kids were having fun playing in the dirt and the planting was going fast.
   
   
   
We took a break for a cold drink and then the sun came out and the temperature started going up, but we were nearly done. We went back to work and finished the entire patch of 1,000 mums and I checked the clock. It was 10 AM. That was by far the quickest we had ever finished. Everyone helped load up the stuff and we went back to the house. We ate lunch and the next thing I knew we were headed to the creek to let the kids play in the creek. The kids saw the water and started playing with boats tied to cane poles, but the next thing we knew they were in the creek and practically swimming in it.
   
   
   
After a couple of hours in the creek everyone took the kids to the house, dried them off, gave them baths and dry clothes. A little later they made a trip to the barn to see a new litter of kittens. They took a container and fed the kittens milk to get them to come out where the kids could catch them and hold them.
  
After a busy day, the kids and the adults seemed to go to bed early.