2/24/24  Don't just be good, be good for something.

Some clouds, calm, 30 degrees.  33 degrees this morning, the high, Falling to 20 this afternoon with NNW winds.  Sunshine this afternoon. Clear skies tonight with a stiff NW breeze, a low of 7.  Sunshine tomorrow with a high of 32 and a WSW breeze. A low of 21 tomorrow night.  Partly cloudy  Monday  with a WSW breeze, a high of 44, a low of 21. Partly cloudy Tuesday with a strong south breeze, a high of 49.  A low of 39 Tuesday night with a stiff WSW breeze and a steady light rain.  An inch of rain Wednesday and Wednesday night with gusty south winds.  A high of 51, a low of 33.  A WSW wind Thursday with a few snow showers, a high of 37.  Clearing Thursday night  a stiff NW breeze , a low of 15.

Partly cloudy Friday with a brisk west breeze, a high of 34, a low of 25.  Partly cloudy next Saturday with a WSW breeze, a high of 45, a low of 28.

Partly cloudy next Sunday with a brisk NNE breeze, a high of 42, a low of 31.  Cloudy next Monday with a SSE breeze, a high of 48. a low of 25.

PM showers Tuesday the 5th with a SSE breeze, a high of 53, a low of 42/  Showers Wednesday the 6th and Thursday the 7th with brisk SW breezes,highs around 50, lows in the upper thirties.  Showers Friday the 8th and Saturday the 9th with brisk NW breezes, highs about 48, lows about 33.

     The seedlings large enough to be transplanted are in the greenhouse. Today there will be thermonters on the west side where the pansies go so Bekah can see how well the stoves hold the temperature.  There probably won't be another night as cold as tonight.

     It wasn't quite time to get a load of feed but I was low on sunflower seeds.  We've been feeding some to the hens as a treat to see if we could get the old hens back to laying after their molt.  The chick order blank was on the feed store counter.  It is already time to order chicks for the April hatch.  That is when we get them.  We want to have eggs next fall when the old hens stop laying.

    A flock of a hundred or so goldfinches and pine siskins came yesterday morning.  They quickly cleaned out the feeders.  All the seeds I had thrown on the snow for the ground feeders were gone.  Most of them left early in the afternoon.  Will today's weather make them decide to stay where there is food, shelter and water for a day?  There was a small flock of robins in lower Bradford.  I thought perhaps they were ones that had been around all winter. The ones that cleaned all the berries off my winterberry bushes at Christmas.  But there was another flock of about 50 in Charlston.

     May God bless you on this day, Sally