4/9/26  Love is what makes life so precious and so worth celebrating.

Sunshine, 28 degrees and calm.  Sunshine today, a south wind, high 53.  a few clouds tonight, a light south wind, low 33.  Cloudy tomorrow, a stiff south breeze, high 60, low 40.  Partly cloudy Saturday, a NW wind, high 49, low 311.Mostly cloudy Sunday, a WNW breeze, high 56, low 38.  Light rain Monday, a stiff SW breeze, high 56, low 52.  Partly cloudy Tuesday, a NW breeze, high 65, low 45.  Showers Wednesday, NE breeze, high 56, low 44.  AM showers Thursday, partly cloudy later, a SW breeze, high 59, low 43.  Partly cloudy next Friday and Saturday, highs about 60, lows 41 and 35.  Partly cloudy next Sunday and Monday, brisk NW breezes, highs 52, lows 34 and 38. Partly cloudy Tuesday the 21st, a brisk SW breeze, high 56, low 41.  Morning showers Wednesday the 22ed, a SW breeze, high 57, low 42.  Rain Thursday the 23rd, a NW breeze, high 54, low 39.

    The kitchen garden is alive with birds.  Mostly finches and evening grosbeaks.  The cardinals mostly come early before the rush and in the evening at dusk.  It is late for grosbeaks to still be here.  Usually by now they have gone back to the north woods.

    Bekah is warming up cream for me to make butter.  Butter gets made whenever there is enough cream.  Taking care of milk is like laundry and dishes, a daily task.

    The Coast of Maine order came yesterday.  It is warm enough to set up the store.  But it is also warm enough to set up the hoses.  That comes first, life is much easier with water where we need it.  Today the calibrachoas will get moved to the calibrachoa house, an unheated greenhouse where they will thrive with lots of room and cool temperatures.  They may decide to run an electric heater Saturday night. They are a week late getting moved so they are second on the list, behind the hoses.  They are almost as hardy as pansies but April weather has been late getting here.

    May your day be blessed, Sally