9/8/17
If you have a family that loves you, a few good friends, food on the table and a roof over your head you are rich.

 Calm, clear, 50 degrees.  Some clouds moving in this morning, more clouds late afternoon, possible thunderstorms late this evening.  A WSW breeze with a high of 70 and a low of 49.  Partly cloudy tomorrow with a north breeze, a high of 69 and a low of 52.  Possible late day thunderstorms.  Partly cloudy Monday with a north breeze, a high of 70 and a low of 50.  Sunny Monday with a brisk NNW breeze, a high of 79 and a low of 53.  Mostly sunny Tuesday with a west breeze, a high of 80 and a low of 55.  Mostly sunny Wednesday with a stiff west breeze, a high of 76 and a low of 52.  Sunny the next five days with WNW breezes, highs about seventy, lows about 49.  If Irma's remains drift this far east   there might be mid week showers.  As of now it will mostly go NW of us.  partly cloudy Tuesday, the 19th, showers Wednesday, the 20, pleasant the next few days.  Highs will be in the upper sixties, lows in the upper forties.  We got 3.68 inches of rain the last couple of days.

      Power was out about four hours yesterday.  No idea why.  By the time it came back on I didn't have time for the computer.  Darel is doing well, more progress every day.  Had a few TIAs but he was unaware of them and they had little affect.   We are sleeping in our bed now.  Even though it has a pillow top he goes back to the hospital bed with its flowing air mattress when i get get up.

      Relatives in Florida live in an area that is not flood prone but they are sandbagging their house.  Their windows are boarded up.  Across the country people can only pray the wildfires miss them.  And Jose is right behind Irma!

      Meanwhile we are trying to get our summer's bounty in jars and the freezer.  The pears  on the second tree pear tree are ripening.  I haven't checked the second plum trees.  I've put up 99 pint jars of plums and pears.  Mostly they will go in my morning smoothy.

       The door to the pullets yard didn't get shut last night.  A skunk was eating from their feeder when I went to go in to shut it.  I wondered, a lot of their feed was getting spilled.  It is asking for lead poisoning.  There seems to be no end to them this summer.

       Lots of finches are back.  The sunflower seeds are ripening. Yesterday they were sitting on a feeder eating seeds from a sunflower head.

       Stay safe, enjoy today, Sally