5/14/25 If you want to be original be yourself.  God never made two people exactly alike.

 Mostly clear, calm, 45 degrees.  Sunshine today with a stiff SW breeze, a high of 79.  Partly cloudy tonight with a very slight chance of a shower.  A brisk SW breeze, a low of 53.  Cloudy tomorrow and Friday with highs of 76, lows in the mid fifties.  A SSW breeze tomorrow, A SSE breeze Friday. Showers Saturday with a brisk SSE breeze, a high of 60, a low of 52.  Some showers Sunday with a NNW breeze, a high of 65, a low of 51.  Mostly cloudy Monday and Tuesday with NNW breezes.  A high of 56 Monday, 53 Tuesday.  Lows about 45.  Cloudy next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with NE breezes, highs about 58, lows about 46.  Perhaps some showers Saturday morning, the 24th. Otherwise cloudy with a NE breeze, a high of 60, a low of 46.  More showers Sunday the 25th with a north breeze, a high of 61, a low of 46.  Mostly cloudy Monday the 26th with a NNW breeze, a high of 63, a low of 48.  Perhaps some showers Tuesday the 27th and Wednesday the 28th with WNW breezes, Highs of 67, lows of 51.

     Another busy day yesterday.   Bekah is putting flowers out on the display benches.  Next week will be  cooler than this week but the flowers will be fine.  They will harden off  and have more room.  What is left in the greenhouse needs more room.  It is time for me to start planting my flowers.

      Yesterday I put cardboard around the clumps of rhubarb.  Then I cleaned up hay that had been spilled over the winter and put it on the cardboard.  Darel not only built me a flower box to replace the broken one, he filled it with soil.  Zinnas go in those boxes, they like it warm.  I'll plant  flowers that do well in cooler temperatures first.  On my last trip back from taking hay to mulch the rhubarb I scooped up a bucket of Bekah and Jay''s compost to spread on some of my flower gardens.  Gilbert was spreading the pile on the vegetable garden before he tilled it.  Black gold!  When Bekah cleans the chicken house she will start a new pile for next year.

     The bees are happy.  The rhubarb is only six feet from the hive.  They paid no attention to me.  Gilbert tilled about ten feet from them, they ignored him too.  They were working the cherry tree blossoms. They have lots of flowers to choose from.  So do the hummingbirds but I had to refill the feeders yesterday.  No one saw an oriole yesterday.

     Jay took the lawn mower back to home Depot.  They asked no questions and gave him his money back.  They didn't offer to replace it, there have been problems with that mower.  They were sold out of other models but had several of that mower.

     May your day be blessed, Sally