4/12/25  Children and Gardens need the same things.  Patience, Love and someone who will never give up on them.

Clouds calm. 36 degrees.  Snow showers this morning will turn to rain.  It will rain through tomorrow evening.  Today' high 39 with a north breeze, tonight's low 35.  A light NNE wind tomorrow with a high of 40, a low of 35.  Mostly cloudy Monday with a strong NNW breeze, a high of 54, a low of 36.  Showers Tuesday with a SE breeze, a high of 48, a low of 37.  Cloudy Wednesday with a stiff west breeze, a high of 47, a low of 34.  Partly cloudy Thursday with a strong WNW breeze, a high of 38.  Partly cloudy Friday with a west breeze, a high of 56, a low of 41.  Showers next Saturday with a brisk SW breeze, a high of 52, a low of 36 .Partly cloudy next Sunday with a strong NW breeze, a high of 49, a low of 36.  Partly cloudy next Monday with a brisk NW breeze, a high of 54, a low of 38. Mostly cloudy Tuesday the 22ed with a west breeze, a high of 57. a low of 41.  Partly cloudy through Saturday the 26th with NW breezes, highs around 60, lows in the low forties.

    Yesterday was a so-so day weatherwise.  The sun tried to shine and there wasn't much wind but it never really warmed up.  They were in the greenhouse transplanting or pruning most of the day.  It was pleasant in the greenhouse.

    The new way to accept credit cards  came.  Bekah set it up and is pleased with the way it works. Just in time! Open Greenhouse Week is May 5th through the 10th but the greenhouse officially opens Tuesday the 16th. People have been buying seeds and Coast of Maine products..  This next week pansies and other cool weather flowers will be for sale. Fruit trees and other nursery stock start arriving the third week in April.  

    We have a male cardinal looking for a mate.  All day he sits in the birch tree calling for a female. A few of the blackbirds are trying to eat out of the little bird's tube feeders.  In the process they spill some sunflower seeds on the ground.  Just before dark we see two male cardinals looking for the spilled seeds.  Sometimes a female.  I think there is a pair who have a nest close by.  They seem to take turns coming for seeds. Do they take turns because they have eggs to keep warm?  The killdeer returned yesterday.  They know it is going to warm up!

    May your day be blessed, Sally