3/5/16
The hum of bees is the voice of the garden. Bee intentional in your gardening.

 10 degrees, clouds with a north breeze that will become stronger today with a high of 31 and a low of 15 tonight.  Cloudy tomorrow with a WSW breeze, a high of 39 and a low of 23.  Rain/snow showers Tuesday with a strong SSW breeze, a high of 44 and a low of 28.Partly cloudy Tuesday with a gentle WSW breeze, a high of 51 and a low of 33.  Morning clouds/afternoon sun  on Wednesday with a SW breeze, a high of 58 and a low of 34.  Cloudy Thursday with a NNW breeze, a high of 41 and a low of 23.  Partly cloudy Friday with a NW breeze, a high of 45 and a low of 38.  Mostly sunny next Saturday with a SW breeze, a high of 51 and a low of 34.  PM showers nest Sunday with a light east breeze, a high of 47 and a low of 33.  Partly cloudy Monday, the 14th, and Tuesday, the 15th, with highs of 48 and lows of 40.  The north breeze on Monday will be come NNE Tuesday bringing in rain/snow showers for Wednesday with a high of 48 and a low of 31.  Mostly cloudy Thursday, the 17th, with a north breeze, a high of 49 and a low of 33.  Showers the 18th and 19th with highs of 51 and lows of 35.

      Even though the red poles  left as suddenly as they came I had to refill the bird feeders at noon yesterday.  The birds will be as glad as me to see this ice gone.   Rachael was complaining she was going to "break her neck" between the house and greenhouse.  I even have to walk careful with my spiked boots.

       We are almost through planting the shipment of seedlings and the ones I started in the house.  Rose will finish today why I'm at a church meeting.  She took off during the week so she could be here today in case there are so many clouds the fires have to be kept going.  Tiffany and Gilbert are going to the Maine caucus.  We have one box of plants coming this week.  i went through seeds yesterday, choosing the ones we need to plant to start another round.  The end of next week we'll have lots of seedlings from the seeds I started on the heat mat when we started the greenhouse fires.

       Several years ago Gilbert and Barbie gave me a small weather station, it has died.  It wasn't fancy, the anemometer kicked out at thirty or thirty-five mph and would not read higher speeds but I've really enjoyed it.  I suspect like everything else they are lots of money now, I haven't looked.  I might see what just an anemometer costs.

      I got my new dosetron, the device that mixes the fertilizer with the water, set up.  I use a natural fertilizer that goes in the water whenever I water the plants.  I was told the waves and some of the newer flowers would only do well with the high powered chemical fertilizers.  They were beautiful last year, very healthy with vibrant colors.   None for the pansies for another week, their culture instructions say no fertilizer for two weeks after transplanting. 

    Sun is shining, lots I want to do before I go to church.  Have a great day, Sally