10/13/26  Remember that gratitude and grief can live in the same heart at the same time.

Calm, clouds, 36 degrees  Rain this morning, snow may mix in.  There will be a break in the storm then rain this afternoon.  Rain tonight may be heavy at times. An ENE breeze, high 42, tonight's low 40.   Cloudy tomorrow, a stiff NNW breeze, high 56, low 42. Sunshine Thursday, a strong NW breeze, high 55, low 34.  Rain Friday, a brisk SE breeze, high 48, low 38.  Partly cloudy Saturday, strong NW wind, high 44, low 27  Mostly sunny Sunday, a strong WNW breeze, high 45, low 23.  Partly cloudy next Monday through Tuesday the 27th with brisk NW breezes, highs in the upper fifties Monday through Friday, Then the highs drop to the mid fifties. The low next Monday and Tuesday 36, 33 next Wednesday.  Lows of 40 Thursday the 22ed and Friday the 23rd.   Lows in the thirties the next five days.

   Yesterday we hooked up the new dishwasher.  Last night the dryer stopped heating.  It is a commercial speed queen dryer so it is worth fixing.  To my surprise Amazon looks like the best place for speed queen parts.  Home Depot carries aftermarket parts.  Parts will be here Saturday.  Today Bekah will dry a load at Maegin's and I'll dry a load at my sister's.  Maegin has been using our dryer,  she just got one a few weeks ago.  We have two wooden drying racks, after today we'll keep rotating clothes through them until the dryer is fixed.  Just found out Walmart has speed queen parts too.

     I hung clothes and sheets  all over the laundry room and on the racks last night.  Monday is a big laundry day for us.  We don't do as much laundry on weekends and we do sheets etc Mondays.

  We haven't had many birds the last few weeks.  There must be lots of ripe seeds.  Cold weather may bring them back if only for the suet.

This afternoon I'll bring in the last of the three mandevilla vines.  It is so covered in red blooms I've been wrapping it in remay.  When the vines come in for the winter I cut them back. The hibiscus is still covered in huge pink bloons.  Wrapping may not be enough this weekend.

    May your day be blessed, Sally