3 /17/25  When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.

  .33 inch of overnight rain. It's raining.  An inch more is expected today with a south breeze, a high of 52.  More rain tonight with a brisk NNW breeze. a low of 33.  Morning clouds/afternoon sun Tuesday with a strong SSE breeze.  A high of 48, a low of 28.  Sunshine Wednesday with an east breeze, a high of 54, a low of 33.  Clouds on the first day of spring with a strong SSE breeze, a high of 50.  Rain Thursday night with a low of 39.  Rain Friday with a strong north breeze, a high of 42, a low of 31.  Partly cloudy Saturday with a strong WNW breeze, a high of 48, a low of 28.  Partly cloudy Sunday with a strong WNW breeze, a high of 43, a low of 27.  Partly cloudy Monday with a stiff west breeze, a high of 41, a low of 29  .Afternoon showers next Tuesday with a brisk ESE breeze, a high of 42.  Snow showers Tuesday night with a low of 34. Snow showers next Wednesday morning with a strong NNW breeze, a high of 44.  A low of 30 Wednesday night. Mostly cloudy Thursday the 27th with a stiff WSW breeze, a high of 44, a low of 28. Mostly cloudy Friday the 28th with a strong WNW breeze, a high of 41, a low of 28. Mostly cloudy the weekend of the 29th and 30th with stiff west breezes, highs in the low forties, lows about 29.

     On Friday we had a couple red winged blackbirds at the feeders.  On Saturday there were about ten.   Yesterday there was a flock of red-winged blackbirds and grackles.  They are at least a week early.  Yesterday I didn't see any pine grosbeaks. Did they head north? The big suet feeder was emptied.  I won't refill it.  Grackles will empty it in an hour.   I have a suet feeder for nuthatches, woodpeckers and chickadees.  The birds have to eat from it upside down.   The grackles can't eat that way.

     The fog is lifting a little, showing mostly bare ground.  The pile Doug made for the kids to sled on had fog lifting off it yesterday. Hopefully some of today's rain won't all run off. The water table.is still low, the sump pump has hardly run at all.  Yesterday they bought the begonias, dahlias and fuchsias  that winter in the cellar up. They were divided between the greenhouses.  Bekah said the cellar was still quite dry.  My fuchsias were put in the front room on the germainton table.  They were pruned and sprayed when I took them off the barn.  Aphids love fuchsias, we don't want to chance any wintering over and infecting the greenhouse.

    May your day be blessed, Sally