7/1/25  You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Calm, sunshine, 57 degrees.  The showers forecast for this morning seem to have dried up.  There is no rain in the two week forecast, not even thunderstorms.  Today ad tomorrows highs are forecast to be in the high seventies, lows 56 and 60.   After that highs are forecast to be in the eighties.  The first seven days lows will be in the high fifties, lows will be in the mid sixties the second seven days.The temperature forecast for the month of August was posted this morning, warmer than average for New England. Several days we'll enjoy SW breezes.

   The hay trailers are gone from the yard as is most of the spilled hay.   The  hay that has been cleaned  has gone on the second crop of potatoes, today we'll clean up the rest.  It will go on the north side of the house that is mostly gravel and weeds.  It will become a small vegetable garden.  Speaking of vegetables, yesterday they picked 13 milk crates and two large coolers of cucumbers.  They were able to get all the cucumbers in the big cooler so they will stay crisp for today's customers. Of the several hundred they picked Wednesday only a few were left.  Jay takes such good care of his cucumbers that they are known far and wide for their crisp, sweet flavor.  He uses lots of compost.  He uses his leaf blowers to blow the cucumber beetles onto large yellow sticky traps, no sprays.  He plants a soaker hose in each row so they have lots of water. Today I'm taking  cucumbers to some older people who can't garden anymore.  We are making pickles,  Bekah is making relish. There are lots of other vegetables in the stand's coolers.

    In the busyness of haying Bekah had help watering and three pots of flowers were missed.  I set them in a wagon full of water.  Yesterday I trimmed and fed them, they will come back.  We'll enjoy them here at the house.  One of them wasn't for sale.  It had a Martha Washington geranium in the center surrounded by mini petunia.  The mine petunias need more water and fertilizer than the geranium likes.  Bekah won't plant mini petunias and Martha Washingtonsin the same container again.

   May your day be blessed, Sally