10/23/17
We've no idea what people are dealing with.  So we just need  to be nice.

 Clouds, fog, calm and 46 degrees.  Sun and 65 degrees this afternoon with a south breeze, dropping to 54 tonight.  Fog and clouds tomorrow morning with possible showers tomorrow afternoon for Rachael's soccer play off.  A high of 68 with a stiff SSE breeze.  Rain and a low of 53 tomorrow night.  Rain Wednesday and Wednesday night with SSE winds, a high of 65 and a low of 54.  Rain Thursday with a brisk west breeze, evening clearing, a high of 58 and a low of 41.  Yesterday the rain total was 4-5 inches, now its 3-4 here.  Sunny Friday with a WSW breeze, a high of 61 and a low of 39.  Partly cloudy for Saturday, first day of deer season, with a south breeze, a high of 63 and a low of 46.  Significant rain Sunday and next Monday with  highs about 59, a low of 49 Sunday.   An east breeze Sunday and SW winds Monday to blow the storm away and give us a low of 41 Monday night..  Sunny next Tuesday and Wednesday with strong SW breezes, high of 55 and lows in the mid thirties.  Five days of showers starting late Thursday, Nov. 2ed.  Highs will be in the fifties with lows in the mid to upper thirties.

      Darel had a pleasant and uneventful day yesterday.  he needed some help getting to his feet at the end of the church service but was able to walk out to the truck just fine.  (with the walker)  The Patriots won last night making worth sitting up to watch them.

      I watered yesterday afternoon, many plants were just to dry to wait for the rain.  I will report many after the rain and before I put them away for the winter.

     When Doug's dog got the skunk a week or so ago Doug said it was the biggest skunk he'd ever seen.  I was pretty sure it was the skunk that had been around the barn because that had been the biggest skunk i had ever seen and the last I saw it it was walking toward Doug's.  And there have been no sightings or smell of a skunk since.  I'm extra glad it is gone now,.  Yesterday I realized it had dug under two cement blocks to get to the hole that led under the house.  Until this summer I did not know skunks could be such excavators.  Raymon Freeman was here yesterday.  He said his trapper friend has never had so many nuisance skunk call as this year, 50 plus.

     Today and tomorrow the goal is to pull any bamboo that has snuck back in the corner flower garden, mulch it and bank that corner of the house.  The annual flowers along the wall outside the kitchen are so pretty i hate to pull them but next week i will. That wall needs banking against the winter winds.

     Enjoy your day, Sally