4/20/18
When your past calls, if it doesn't make you smile don't answer.  It has nothing new to say.

 Cloudy, 34 degrees, with a light variable breeze.  A shower possible this morning with snow flakes mixed in.  Showers likely this afternoon with a strong NNW breeze, a high of 50, dropping to 33 tonight with some clouds.  Mostly cloudy tomorrow with a strong NW breeze a high of 47 and a low of 31 as skies clear.  Sunny Sunday with a brisk NW breeze, a high of 54 and a low of 30.  Sunny Monday with a WNW breeze, a high of 63 and a low of 34.  Sunny Tuesday with a stiff WSW breeze, a high of 69 and a low of 41.  Showers Wednesday afternoon lasting through Thursday into Friday morning.  A stiff SSW breeze Wednesday with a high of 60 and a low of 45.  A NNE breeze Thursday with a high of 56 and a low of 44.  A NW breeze Friday with a high of 62 and a low of 44.  Partly cloudy the next week with highs in the mid to upper fifties, lows around forty.

     Darel's pulse was very high in the morning, very low in the evening.  He wanted the pellet stove off in the morning but was glad for its quick heat in the evening.  The nurse and the chaplain both visited and his sons stopped by.

     All the perennials are uncovered with the plastic and the blankets put away.  then Andrew and i got tow out last night to cover the pansies in case there was some snow flakes or sleet.  It is looking like we will be able to fold them up and put them away with out them even getting a rain drop on them.  At two when I put wood on the fires it was 33 so I turned on the the electric heaters and the propane heater.  Just to be safe.

     Most of our days are spent pruning and moving plants to the cold frame.  Yesterday we  transplanted marigolds to refil the space we made in the greenhouse.  Michael mulched the garlic.  it is just peeping out of the ground.  Today we will transplant more perennials.  I'd like to get all the ones I started potted up before the ones I'm buying start coming in next week.

     Still no killdeer.  I'm wondering if they ran into the snow storms on their way up and didn't make it.

     Have a good day, Sally