1/11/16
Happiness is a lot easier when you stop complaining about your problems and are thankful for the problems you don;t have.

 Calm, cloudy, 31 degree,the snow has stopped, giving us a dusting.  Today;s high will be 48 with lots of clouds, a stiff NNW breeze and a low of 27 tonight.  Partly cloudy tomorrow with a stiff SW breeze with a high of 53 and a low of 36.  Sunny Sunday with a stiff NNW breeze with a high of 52 degrees, and a low of 26.  Clouds on Monday with a SE breeze, a high of 46 and a low of 24. Light rain Tuesday into Wednesday morning. An ESE breeze Tuesday with a high of 46 and a low of 41. A NE breeze Wednesday with clouds, a high of 54 and a low of 39.  PM showers Thursday with a SW breeze, a high of 57 and a low of 37.  Cloudy Friday, a SW breeze with a high of 51 and a low of 34.  Sunny next Saturday with a west breeze, a high of 47 and a low of 32.  Rain/snow showers next Sunday with a NW breeze, a high of 44 and a low of 33.  Partly cloudy the week of the 21st with highs in the mid to upper forties and lows around thirty.

     We had a large flock of grackles here all day so we didn't see too much of our birds.  With the better weather a lot of them had left us for natural food.  A few of them slipped into eat between waves of grackles.  I didn't refill the feeders, just put out some seeds for the cardinals this morning.  they got to eat for a little while before the grackles and red winged black birds showed up.  The finches can eat from the thistle socks.

     No rain but the temperature slowly dropped all day.  I kept one fire going, jus putting three pieces of wood on at a time.  Tiffany did computer and display work.  For the first time ever we expect to have our perennial displays set up for Open Greenhouse Day.  Gilbert will uncover them sometime during the next few days.  Most of them are covered with a blanket and white plastic.  They are OK but the ones covered with black ground cover are showing some green so I took that off.  Usually the ones i put the ground cover on are buried in snow drifts.

     A box of plugs and cuttings came last night.  We'll get them planted today.  One more box coming next week.  We have lots of own seedlings to transplant.  the marigolds peeked through yesterday.  

      Have a good day, Sally