4/8/24  Gardening is a medicine that does not need a prescription...and with no limit on dosage. -George Eliot

 Clear, calm, 33 degrees.  Sunshine today with a stiff NW breeze, a high of 62.   Clear tonight with a NNW breeze, a low of 33.  Sunshine tomorrow with a north breeze, a high of 55, a low of 30.  Showers Wednesday, rain Wednesday night.  A stiff SSE breeze, a high of 49. a low of 37.

Rain Thursday and Thursday night with a stiff SE breeze, a high of 45, a low of 43.  Rain Friday and Friday night with a SSE wind, a high of 56, a low of 45.  Clouds Saturday with a light SW wind, a high of 55, a low of 38.  Cloudy Sunday with a stiff west breeze, a high of 51, a low of 38.  Partly cloudy next Monday and Tuesday with stiff WNW breezes.  Monday's high 58, the low 41.  Tuesday's high 55, the low 38.  Partly cloudy next Wednesday and Thursday with brisk NNW breezes, highs of 58, lows of 41.  Showers Friday the 19th and the weekend with brisk northerly breezes, highs in the low fifties, lows about 39.  

     We couldn't ask for a better day for the eclipse.  Please be careful of your eyes.  I read a post on FB by an eye doctor that even with glasses looking at the sun wasn't safe.  There have been several articles that many of the glasses were subpar.  People and traffic will be overwhelming.  I'm getting an oil change early.  I will be coming right home and staying here.  Lots of bare ground is showing.  Today's sun will melt most of the snow that is left.

      Everything of Bekah and Jay's is at the farm, Two thirds of Sally Jo's stuff has been moved to the trailer.  The rest is in the garage. With the demands of the greenhouse getting the farm house organized will be slow.  Today they have to load the hay trailer and deliver a load of hay.  A Coast of Maine load is being delivered to the greenhouse.  There is a backorder and a truck with a couple of pallets of supplies coming sometime this week.

     Saturday is a big day.  One of my Alaskan granddaughters and her husband will be here visiting from Alaska.  We will celebrate by having the first family picnic of 2024.  The weather isn't forecast to be as nice as today but it will be ok.  We will have a fire in the firepit to cook hot dogs.  Mike will cook hamburgers on the grill.We are all excited.  Even as we work in the greenhouse and try to get the house in shape we will be making Saturday plans.  Only those of us who went to Alaska for Christy's wedding have met her husband.

     May God bless you on this day, Sally