2/12/24  Positive thinking is enthusiasm  Positive action is achieving.

Calm, clouds, 34 degrees.  Partly cloudy this morning, overcast this afternoon with a WNW breeze, a high of 40.  A few clouds tonight with a NNW breeze, a low of 21. Flurries tomorrow with a strong NNE breeze, a high of 30, a low of 15.  Partly cloudy Wednesday with a NW wind, a high of 23, a low of 18.  Sunshine Thursday with a strong NW breeze, a high of 33, a low of 18.  Snow showers  after midnight.  Snow showers Friday morning with a strong NW breeze, a high of 30, a low of 17.  Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday with brisk NW breezes, highs of 29, low of 19 Saturday, 14 Sunday.  Partly cloudy next Monday and Tuesday with brisk NW breezes, highs about 33, lows of 19 Monday, 12 on Tuesday.  Partly cloudy next Wednesday with a brisk NW breeze, a high of 27, a low of 16.  Snow showers Thursday the 22ed and Friday the 23rd with brisk NW breezes, highs about 32, lows about 20.  1-3 inches of snow Friday night, another 1-3 inches Saturday morning.  A stiff NNE breeze Saturday with a  high of 34, a low of 23.

     Yesterday was a quiet day.  despite the weather warning no icy roads going to church, no ice in the parking lot.  No late afternoon thunderstorm like we had Saturday.  Folklore:  Thunder before Easter means a cold April.  Long range weather forecast is for warm and dry weather.  We'll know in April.  For now we are happy to see average temperatures the week we start the greenhouse fires with just enough accumulating snow to insulate around the bottom of the greenhouse.  We've gained an hour and a half of daylight since the winter saliste Maple syrup producers are having an early run.

      The live trap is spring but empty.

      After church Bekah did some more winter sowing.  I've been questioning the peppermint plants I have under lights in the bathroom. Bekah checked them.  she thinks one of them has crossed with chocolate mint.  The chocolate and peppermint patches are quite a ways apart but maybe not far enough?  So much grass has infiltrated the peppermint patch that we are starting a new one.  We'll have to move it even further away.  Maybe the peppermint I'm planting behind the house will be the patch.  Bekah moved the herb seedlings from the  table by the pellet stove to the laundry where it is cooler.  They will grow well.  She needs space on the warm table for more petunias and salvia.

     May God bless you on this day.  Sally