10/22/26  Improvement being with "I".

 Calm, cloudy, 36 degrees.  some sun this afternoon, a strong north breeze, high 58, low 34. Sunshine tomorrow and the weekend.A strong north breeze tomorrow a high of 52, low 0f 27.  A NW breeze Saturday, high 58, low 9.  A WSW breeze Sunday, high 67, loww 34.  Partly cloudy Monday, a west breeze, high 67, low 34. Sunshine Tuesday, a NNW breeze, high 49, low 25.  Partly cloudy next Wednesday through Sunday the 1st. A west breeze Wednesday , high 49, low 31.  A SSW breeze next Thursday, high 57, low 42.  A brisk west breeze next Friday, high 59, low 24.  A NW breeze Saturday the 31st, high 54, low 36.  A brisk SSW breeze Sunday the 1st, high 59, low 42.  Perhaps some showers Monday the 2ed. A stiff WSW breeze, high 61, low 40. Partly cloudy the next three days, brisk NW breezes, highs about 50, lows in the low thirties.

      The straw is put away, the north side of the house is banked. The ice pack around the north pole is very large this year compared to other years and getting larger.  The polar vortex is doing things that will allow the cold air that snow/ice pack produce to come to us. That may mean that the moisture El Nino is forecast to give us this winter will be snow. 

       There are enough pieces of straw on the ground for me to rake up and use to mulch my three rose bushes on the south side of the house.  I've never mulched the Wm Buffin rose in the kitchen garden on the north side of the house.  I just prune it so it doesn't take over.

     The chickens are happy, they are getting grass every day again.  They missed it for a week or so because I wasn't doing well.  The rain and neglect allowed lots of tender new grass to grow in my flower beds.

     May your day be blessed, Sally