4/16/25 You don't have to be a good gardener for gardening to be good for you.

30 of rain last evening.  Bright sunshine, 37  degrees and calm.   It is supposed to become overcast later with a strong west breeze, a high of 48.  Cloudy tonight with a stiff west breeze, a low of 36.  Sunshine tomorrow with a WNW wind, a high of 50, a low of 31.  Mostly cloudy Good Friday with a brisk WNW breeze, a high of 61, a low of 44.  Morning showers Saturday with a brisk SW breeze, a high of 67, a low of 55.  Partly cloudy Easter Sunday with a NW wind, a high of 50, a low of 32.  Partly cloudy Monday with a NW breeze, a high of 55, a low of 39.  Showers Tuesday with a south breeze, a high of 47, a low of 41.  Partly cloudy next Wednesday with a NNNW breeze, a high of 56, a low of 39.  Mostly cloudy next Thursday and Friday with Highs of 58, lows of 43 and 40.  A SSW breeze Thursday, a NW breeze Friday. Mostly cloudy Saturday the 26th with a NNW breeze, a high of 54, a low of 40. Partly cloudy Sunday the 27th with a NW breeze, a high of 58, a low of 40   Clouds the week of the 28th with NW breezes, highs in the upper fifties, lows of 41.

     The rain waited until late afternoon.  Annabelle and Raegan got off the school bus and we headed right to church with pansies for the church box.  They got  the pansies planted, the rain last evening watered them in nicely.

      Today is clean the cook range and chimney day.  I was probably about ten when I learned how to clean my mother's cook range.  It has been my job ever since.  Except for a year when Darel was stationed in Anchorage we have always had a wood cook range.  Times are changing, Bekah cleaned the cook range this morning.  Maegin made breakfast on the electric range.  I did collect the eggs!  I didn't hear the male cardinal this morning.  Did he find a mate?

     I ordered some bright colored yarrow seeds yesterday.  Planting peppermint and yarrow around the house foundation is supposed to repel all rodents, not just skunks.  I have a David phlox in the corner where the skunk was last winter.  Yarrow will look pretty around the white phlox.

    Gilbert just came and got Jay to help him move furniture out of their front room.  He and Barbie are going to refinish a table that survived the neighbor's fire with just some smoke damage.  The easiest place to refinish it is the front room!  The insurance company is moving slowly.   By the time Bj and Randa have their new doublewide Gilbert and Barbie will have the table done.

    May your day be blessed, Sally.