Thursday, October 12, 2017 – Pull Carthage Flowerbeds, Tour bus, Tulip Bulbs, DQ reward

Well, the long awaited and dreaded day finally arrived; we went to the Carthage Visitor’s Center and pulled all of the flowerbeds flower pots today. We had a big crew and there was death and carnage everywhere! Stems, leaves, roots and all were flying left and right. There was no mercy shown and not a single pretty flower escaped the massacre! 

All summer the beautiful pots and planters of the Carthage Visitor’s Center have been lovingly cared for by Elder & Sis. Nielsen (3). They have done a wonderful job and the plant lined sidewalks and rotundas have been magnificent this year. Unfortunately, they can’t last forever. It’s fall and not a single one of these beautiful plants and flowers would survive the first frost.

We can take consolation in knowing that these flowerbeds in Carthage will be beautiful again. Even as we were finishing and cleaning up, Richard was already laying out bulbs to be planted in the newly tilled soft soil. Those flowerbeds will be beautiful again.

We finished our day back in Nauvoo cleaning, weeding and poisoning “Rogue Trees” in one of the parking lots on Old Main Street. Meanwhile Sis. Johnson  was back in the potting room at FM washing and sanitizing used flower pots.