8/6/17
3 C's  for life.  You must make a choice to take a chance or there will be no change.

 Sunshine with some clouds, 62 degrees, wth a light NW breeze.  We got .54 inches of much needed rain last night.  Partly cloudy today with strong WNW breezes, a high of 75, dropping to 50 tonight.  Cloudy tomorrow with a WSW breeze, a high of 77 and a low of 68.  Rain tomorrow noght, a thunderstorm possible.  showers Tuesday with a brisk north breeze, a high of71 and a low of 52. Pleasant Wednesday through Saturday with highs in the low eighties and lows in the high fifties. WSW breezes Wednesday and Thursday, SE breezes Friday and Saturday.  Afternoon showers Sunday lasting into Monday morning with SSE breezes, highs near 80 and lows about 60. Sunny Tuesday the 15th, with a high of 79 a WSW breeze, and a low of 58.  Possible morning showers Wednesday, the 16th, with an east breeze, a high of 78 and a low of 57.  Pleasant Thursday and Friday, showers Saturday, the 19th and sunny Sunday the 29th.  highs will be about 80 and lows about 59.

        A quiet day yesterday.  The cookout tired Darel out.  Today we are planning to go to church with Doug and Nicole.  Keith will be with us to help get Darel in and out of the truck.  Today is Communion Sunday at our church.  Our pastor is coming out this afternoon to celebrate Communion with Darel and I.

        I picked 6 quarts of blueberries yesterday.  i would have liked to pick raspberries before the storm but didn't get to it.  I pulled several onions,  I think there are only a few left on the stand.

        Last night when nicole came home from work a skunk was sitting on the front step.  She used the button in the truck to open the garage door and came in that way.  I was glad I'd shut the garage door.  Doug went out through the garage, got his 12 gauge out of his truck and dispatched the skunk with Justin holding a flashlight. Is jacking skunks legal?   There seems to be no end to skunks this summer.  One has dug a hole under the garage by the lilac display.  It has made such a mess it doesn't seem possible a skunk could move so many rocks to dig  that hole.  It looks like too much for a woodchuck to do too.  We haven't figured out yet how we are going to eliminate whatever it is.

       Andrew and Gayle are getting Darel ready for church.  I'm going to feed the birds and maybe harvest some vegetables for the stand.  It was full yesterday afternoon but lots of customers came by later in the day.

      Have a good day, Sally