4/7/26  Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Thomas Edison

Sunshine, calm, 24 degrees.  Partly cloudy this morning, clouds this afternoon, snow showers this evening and overnight.  a south breeze today, a brisk NW breeze tonight.  High 42, low 20.  Sunshine tomorrow, a NW breeze, high 44, low 25.  Sunshine Thursday, a south wind, high 52, low 34.  Partly cloudy Friday, a SW breeze, high 60, low 39. Partly cloudy Saturday, a strong NW breeze, high 50, low 30.  Mostly sunny Sunday, a west breeze, high 56, low 41.  Cloudy Monday, a strong SW breeze, high 63, low 52.  Mostly cloudy Tuesday, a stiff SW breeze, high 69, low 44.  Partly cloudy next Wednesday morning, afternoon showers last into next Thursday morning.  An ENE breeze Wednesday, high 55, low 38.  A brisk north breeze Thursday, high 49, low 35.  Showers Friday the 17th, a NEN breeze, high 49, low 37.  Partly cloudy Saturday the 18th, a WNW breeze, high 54, low 39.  Partly cloudy Sunday the 19th, a SW breeze, high 56, low 40. Morning sun, PM showers Monday the 20th, a west breeze, high 60, low 40.  Partly cloudy on the 21st, a brisk NW breeze, high 54, low 38.   

     Sunshine, but chilly.  Winter's " so there" tonight before Thursday's south wind kicks it out the door.   The ground is bare and firm enough to make pushing my walker easy.  Last night I put a bucket of old dried chicken manure on the seat and took it to one of the tires we lined up along the west side of the garage last fall.  If I bring a bucket to the house whenever I go to the barn the tires and other places around the house will be ready by planting time.

I'm going to my sister's for breakfast.  I'm coming home through Corinth so I can clean out the church sign box.  Saturday I'll plant pansies in it.  Bekah is moving them to the back room to harden them off.  They'll go out on the benches for sale Saturday.  If the NW breeze is more like a wind she will protect them from it.  Woodchucks have come out of hibernation.  Both woodchucks and deer like pansies.

    Our Coast of Maine is coming tomorrow.  Thursday the hoses can go out and stay out.  Plants will go in the cold frames.  The calibrachoa will get moved to an unheated greenhouse.  There is an electric heater in it in case there is a very cold night at the end of April.  The cold frames have "just in case" electric heaters too.

     May your day be blessed, Sally