Mum's the Word

~ Highlight of the Day: Finding out I didn't miss beekeeping for overtime because beekeeping got moved to tomorrow! Couldn't have planned it better :) ~

Um. . . Mums. That's all I did today. Woke up after hitting snooze (that is a funny word. . . ) three or four times, made it to work on time (barely), took cuttings of mums for 3 hours, ate lunch, and potted mums for 5 hours.

This is what I look at all day - a potting bench, soil, fiber pots, and mums. This variety pictured here is called Honey Glow, I believe. I only remember because it was a cool neon green instead of the plain regular green. We went through something like 4 or 5 yards of soil mix too (not yard as in 3'X3', yard as in how much of something it takes to fill the back of your pickup truck to nearly overflowing). It was a lot of soil, for a lot of mums.

After looking at mums all day I was excited to do something different - I got to help take some of one of Bruce Monroe's exhibits out. All of the pieces we're showcasing here are centered around light, and all but one of them are nighttime exhibits. The only daytime one is a whole lot of 'lily pads' set afloat in the large lake. They are essentially neoprene discs covered in Cd's, and when the sun shines on them you get a rainbow of reflection across the lake. It is way cool. They've been out there all summer though, and time has taken it's toll. Today we removed the most damaged ones. It was hot, and sticky, and stinky, but it was not mums, and I was happy :)