7/11/25 You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

Cloudy, calm, 64 degree,  Cloudy today, gentle SSW breeze, high 78.  Fog after midnight, low 61. Mostly cloudy tomorrow, a south breeze, high 78, low 61.  Morning cloudys/afternoon sun Sunday, stiff south breeze, high 75, low 61.  Possible PM showers Monday, SSW breeze, high 79, low 65.  Sunshine Tuesday, a west breeze, high 88, low 64.  Partly cloudy Wednesday, SW breeze, high 91, low 67.  PM thunderstorms Thursday, a south breeze, high 88, low 67.  Thunderstorms next Friday, a west breeze, high 81, low 62.  Partly cloudy next Saturday, a NNW breeze, high 80, low 59.  Partly cloudy the week of the 20th, WSW breezes,highs in the low to mid eighties, lows in the low sixties.

    Hay was delivered, round bales wrapped, everything watered, grocery shopping done.  Gilbert's  trailer is here, today it will become a float for Bradford Day's parade tomorrow.  When Maegin went grocery shopping yesterday she bought bags of candy for the kids to throw to the parade watchers.

    A deer, a young one judging from the track size, ate the swiss chard Wednesday night.  The swiss chard will grow back.  The deer came from across the road.  Bekah put up a temporary two strand electric fence on our side of the road yesterday.  The problem with our fence is now the deer will be Gilbert's problem.  Doug's cattle fence prevents deer and bear from coming in from the woods side.  Doug's fences stop just before his house.  So the deer go around them into his yard and eat his blueberries.  Predators come in the driveway from Atkinson road.  Doug had something come up on his porch and eat corn the other night.

   Time to hang out the laundry.  No rain is forecast but clouds and no breeze will mean slow drying.  May your day be blessed Sally

 7/10/25 God's plan for your life far exceed the circumstances of your day!

 .26 of rain.  Rain showers this morning, overcast skies this afternoon, a stray shower or thunderstorm possible early evening.  It is 65 degrees, Today's high 75, tonight's low 61.  SE breezes today.

Morning clouds/afternoon sun tomorrow. A light SSW breeze, high 76, low 61.  Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, south breezes, highs in the low eighties, lows about 60.  Mostly cloudy Monday, a brisk south breeze, high 78, low 63.  Partly cloudy Tuesday, Wednesday and next Thursday with WSW breezes, highs around 90, lows about 67. PM thunderstorms next Friday, SSW breezes, high 83, low 64.  Partly cloudy the weekend of the 19th and 20th west breezes, highs about 80, lows 60.  Possible showers the next three days, SW breezes, highs in the low eighties, lows 62.

   Yesterday was a quiet day for me.  About all I did was dishes until late afternoon.  I scrubbed and rinsed hummingbird feeders and put in fresh food.  Soon they will be bringing babies to the feeders.  Bekah folded laundry for me and Maegin watered my flowers.  She also smothered bamboo on the corner.  We've decided to cover it with black plastic and tires and let it sit this year.  Next year we'll put dirt in some of the tires and plant pumpkins.  She put down more cardboard and mulch in the kitchen garden.  And worked on walkways.We've had some strawberries but not enough to make jam.  the girls picked at the strawberry farm.  We froze 12 quarts last night.

    All of the sudden we are seeing lots more bumblebees, little ones.  The few bees that made it through the winter must be  reproducing.  Our bees are doing well.  There are lots of little green beans, they'll be on the stand next week if not sooner.

   The rain has made everything green and fresh.  It's raining lightly now.  Bekah and Doug are delivering hay this morning. It's in a covered trailer.  Maegin is making a Sam's run.  This afternoon I'm going after feed. All those chickens are eating lots  of feed!  My truck will be hooked to Gilbert's trailer tomorrow.  They'll be making it into  a float for the Bradford Day's parade Saturday.

   May your day be blessed, Sally

 7/9/25  Usually if you make the effort to understand each other you will be kind to each other.

Fog, sunshine, calm,72 degrees. Partly cloudy this morning, more clouds this afternoon, possible showers overnight. a gentle ESE breeze today, high 81.  Tonight's low 62. Cloudy tomorrow, a SE breeze. high 76, low 61.  Mostly cloudy Friday, gentle south breeze, high 74, low 61.  Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, highs about 83, lows about 62.  A gentle ESE breeze Saturday, a south breeze Sunday.  PM showers Monday, a SSW breeze, high of 80, low 64.  A west light west breeze Tuesday, high 85, low 66.  Partly cloudy next Wednesday, a light NW breeze, high 85, low 65.  PM thunderstorms next Thursday, a south breeze, high 85, low 66.  Scattered thunderstorms next Friday, a SSW breeze, high 80, low 62.  Partly cloudy the weekend of the 19th, 20th, and Monday the 21st with westerly breezes, highs 77 to 81, lows about 62.  Scattered thunderstorms the next two days.

   My doctor took her time gently convincing my muscles to allow her to put my back in place.  Afterwards she wanted me to take a couple advil and stay a while with heat on my back.  She is adamant the advil is never to be taken on an empty stomach.  I keep an ensure in my truck in case I feel the need to take a couple advil when I'm away from home.  She went out to the truck and got me the ensure..  That's what you call going above and beyond!  I am a very fortunate lady.  I have heat on my back this morning but not sore enough for advil.  I'm standing straighter and I'm not walking like I'm intoxicated.

   Yesterday they soaked shrubs, roses and the dozen or so fruit trees they had left.  They also moved them so they are sheltered from the warm winds that have been drying them out.  Today there is no wind in the two week forecast!  Not much rain either unless we get a thunderstorm.  As much inventory as has sold keeping everything left well watered takes a lot of time and water.They had some annuals in what they call their ICU section.  Most of them are looking so good that they got put out on the display benches for sale.  We're going to plant some of the ones left in ICU.  They aren't  good  enough for customers but fine for us..

  Last night everyone worked on the barn.  Everyone but me.  I sat with a heat pad on my back per doctor's orders.  They even put wire over some high windows that are open for ventilation in case a coon tried to climb in.  All is well this morning except for an angry barn cat who couldn't get in the barn to eat.  Between the laying hens, the new pullets we are raising and the meat birds there is a lot of money in that barn.

   May your day be blessed, Sally

 7/8/25  Try not to become a person of success but a person of value.  Albert Einstein

Clouds, calm, 64 degrees.  Perhaps a shower this morning, overcast this afternoon.  A NNE breeze, high 76, low tonight 60.  Fog.  Partly cloudy tomorrow, gentle east breeze, high 81, low 60.  Cloudy Thursday, SE breeze, high 77, low 60.  AM showers Friday, gentle SE breeze, high 74, low 61.  Partly cloudy Saturday, light NW breeze, high 83, low 62. Possible morning showers Sunday, south breeze, high 81, low 62. Partly cloudy Monday, next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with SW breezes.  High of 80 Monday, highs in the high eighties the next three days. Lows in the mid sixties. Scattered thunderstorms Friday the 18th, WSW breezes, high 83, low 64.  Showers Saturday the 19th, WSW breezes, high 81, low 62. Partly cloudy Sunday the 20th and Monday the 21st,  WSW breezes, highs in the low eighties, lows 62.  Showers Tuesday the 22ed.

    We've suspected a night time prowler.  This morning there is a pile of feathers and no Henrietta.  Hennietta was an old hen that couldn't get along with the other birds so the kids had decided she should be allowed to run loose.  Today they will be tightening up the barn so nothing can get in even the alleyway.  I don't think anything can get into the chicken rooms but best not to take chances.  Hopefully it is a fox, they don't climb.

    96 degrees yesterday and humid.  Doug baled three wagon loads of square bales that got put in the barn.  The rest he round baled.

    We 've got some wire to put over the windows.  If the predator is a coon once it has a taste for chicken they are known to be hard to keep out.  Bekah had thought it was a skunk eating the cat food.  We've smelled skunk a few times.  She found the door opened to the room the cat food was kept.  Something climbed up and got into it.  So "it or its" had cat food and a chicken for a midnight snack.

     I didn't do much yesterday besides watering.  I did call the doctor and I have an appointment today to get my back straightened out.  Jay harvested 93 cucumbers plus other vegetables.  He'll pick more this morning, the cucumbers all sold.  He is running soaker hoses on the vegetables whenever Bekah or Maegin aren't watering flowers.  Gilbert is watering too.

    May your day be blessed, Sally

     

 7/7/ 25  What really matters is what happens in us, not to us.

 The thunderstorms went around us yesterday.  High of 97.  Calm, a few thin clouds, 76 degrees now.  A high of 90 today, a stiff south breeze, sun and clouds.  Tonight's low 64 degrees with a 40% chance of showers after midnight. Cloudy tomorrow, a NNE breeze, high 73, low 42. Mostly cloudy Wednesday with a light east breeze, high 80, low 60.  Morning clouds/ afternoon sun Thursday, SE breeze, high 79, low 50.  Possible morning showers Friday , SE breeze, high 74, low 59. Partly cloudy on the weekend, highs about 80, lows about 60.  NE breeze Saturday, south breeze, Sunday.  SW breezes next Monday and Tuesday,, partly cloudy, Monday's high 92, low 63.  Tuesday's high 87, low 66.  PM thunderstorms next Wednesday, SW breeze, high 86, low 65.  Partly cloudy next Thursday and Friday, west breezes, highs 84, lows 63.  PM showers Saturday the 19th, west breeze, high 83, low 62. Thunderstorms Sunday the 20th  and Monday the 21st.

     Church yesterday followed by Sally Jo's baby shower.  Her mother and sister gave her a beautiful shower with lots of delicious food. Many gifts, baby Matthew will not lack anything!  After the shower everyone from here went swimming.

     Back to the usual harvesting and watering today.  Probably they will make time for a swim.  The nursery is closed Monday's, the vegetable stand is self service.  The meat bird's eat lots more than the chicks we raise for layers.  Someone has to go get feed today.  My back is very out of place..  I'm hoping to get a call for a doctor's appointment.

     May your day be blessed, Sally

 7/6/25  Lord, where we are wrong, please make us willing to change.  Where we are right please make us easy to live with.  Peter Marshall

Sun and clouds, a gentle SW breeze, 68 degrees.  Slight chance of an isolated thunderstorm developing this afternoon. a stiff SW breeze today, high of 90.  A stray shower or thunderstorm possible tonight, low 68.  Partly cloudy tomorrow, SSE breeze, high 86, low 68.  Morning thunderstorms Tuesday, high 77, low 62.  Partly cloudy Wednesday, high 81, low 61.  Highs in the seventies the rest of the week.

   With Sally Jo's baby shower this afternoon Doug only made 90 square bales, the rest he baled in round bales.  Jay picked 57 cucumbers for the stand.  Quickly the numbers will be in the hundreds.  He digs potatoes and harvests other vegetables every day.  When he isn't harvesting he is watering and weeding along with the rest of us.

    May your day be blessed, Sally

 7/5/25  Every day we are engaged in a miracle … a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves,  — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Mostly sunny, a west breeze. 63 degrees.  Sun and clouds today, a WNW breeze, high of 83.  Cloudy tonight, low 63.  Partly cloudy tomorrow, a stiff SW breeze, high 90, low 67.  PM thunderstorms Monday, a NE breeze, high 79, low 66.  Thunderstorms Tuesday, light north breeze, high 78, low 61.  Partly cloudy Wednesday, light north breeze, high 83, low 60. PM showers Thursday,an ESE breeze, high 75, low 59.  Showers Friday, an ESE breeze, high 70, low 58.  Partly cloudy next weekend, southery breeezes, highs about 75, lows about 60. Partly cloudy the 14th through the 19th with WSW breezes, high 79 Monday the 14th, the mid eighties the rest of the week.  Lows in the mid sixties.

   Yesterday was windy and chilly but lots of sunshine and no bugs,  In the morning we went to the Boyd Lake  boat parade.  I cooked and picked more chickens in the afternoon why the girls cooked for an evening picnic.  Last night I watched fireworks on the lake from Andrew's, jacket on and wrapped in a blanket.  Everyone is back to the gardens today.

    May your day be blessed.  Sally