12/13/24  So you goofed.  Pick yourself up, change direction, and start over again.

Calm, clear, 20 degrees.  Mostly sunny today with a stiff west breeze, a high of 29.  Clear tonight with a WNW breeze, a low of 13.  Sunshine tomorrow with a brisk NW breeze, a high of 26, a low of 8.   Sunshine Sunday with a light WSW breeze, a high of 27,  a low of 19.  Partly cloudy Monday with a SW breeze, a high of 36.  Showers Monday night with a south breeze, a low of 30.   Rain Tuesday with a strong south breeze, a high of 48.  A few showers early Tuesday night with a low of 33.  Partly cloudy Wednesday with a west breeze, a high of 42, a low of 26.  Partly cloudy Thursday with a NW breeze, a high of 33, a low of 21.  1-3 inches of snow next Friday, an inch or so more Friday night.  A NNE breeze, a high of 32, a low of 22.  Some leftover flurries next Saturday morning with a NW breeze, a high of 28, a low of 13.  Partly cloudy next Sunday with a NW breeze, a high of 20, a low of 11.  Partly cloudy Monday the 23rd with a NW breeze, a high of 23, a low of 15.  Mostly cloudy Christmas Eve Day with a WNW breeze, a high of 29, a low of 22.  Mostly cloudy Christmas Day with a NW breeze, a high of 34, a low of 24.  Partly cloudy on the 26th and 27th with a NW breeze,  highs of 34 and lows of 25.

    I didn't get too much checked off my list yesterday.  In the afternoon I went to Dover for a new hearing aid battery. When I got back I realized the sump pump wasn't working.  Big Andrew had hip waders that fit Bekah.  She waded through the water to the pump why Andrew looked down the hole we use to check the pump and told her what to do.  Jay was outside checking the hose the water comes out of.  Bekah's conversation this morning was, "What would we do without the Uncles,  they are always "Johnny on the spot"  when we need them!

     In the evening I went to Annabelle's Christmas concert. About eight of the students were recognized for their dedication to the music program, she was one of them.

    Jay was glad to see the snow go.  They had been pushing so hard on the greenhouse he never got to get everything picked up and put away.  He spent yesterday morning getting ready for winter.  It was warm out and the grass was green!  The girls spent the day Christmas shopping.

     I sprinkled some flour where we think the skunk may be getting under the house.  I'm hoping there will be tracks in it.  I have a rainbow vacuum, it has an air cleaner mode.  Last night I left it running in the entryway all night.  The smell  seems gone  to Bekah and i.  I'm waiting for someone with a fresh nose to come and check it out.  We were sure we had the back of the house barricaded but  that skunk dug under the cement.

     I hope to finish setting up the village today.  And decorate the front hall.  The house took a back seat to the new greenhouse and Christmas at Country Junction.  May your day be Blessed, Sally