3/17/16
Before you speak let your words pass through three gates. Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

 32 degrees, calm, wet and overcast.  Thunderstorms possible today with a SSW breeze, a high of 50 and a low of 32 tonight.  AM snow showers tomorrow with a stiff north breeze,  A high of 39 and a low of 18.  Partly cloudy Saturday with a NW wind, a high of 31 and a low of 16.  Sunny Sunday with a NE breeze, a high of 39 and a low of 25.  Accumulating snow on Monday with a north wind, a high of 31 and a low of 21.  Snow forecast range from 3-8 inches, the storm track is very wobbly.  Partly cloudy Tuesday with a WNW wind, a high of 31 and a low of 17.  Spring returns Wednesday with clouds, a SSW breeze, a high of 41 and a low of 27. Rain on Thursday with a light south breeze, a high of 50 and a low of 32.  Showers Good Friday with a NE breeze, a high of 41 and a low of 35.  Showers Saturday with a SW breeze, a high of 49 and a low of 32. Showers Easter Sunday with a west breeze, a high of 49 and a low of 32.  Partly cloudy Monday. the 28th, with a high of 50 and a low of 34.  Rain showers the rest of the week, possibly some snow flakes mixed in, with highs in the upper forties and lows around freezing.

     It always seems like around the spring equinox winter returns, just struggling to let go. I'm glad I didn't take the straw off my tulips.   But the forecast says pansies can go out for Easter, if they are in bloom.  Some of the hanging pansies are blooming.  Plants and people would like some sun!  I spent yesterday rearranging the greenhouse to make room for the boxes coming in this week.  A week from today pansies will be going out if they are blooming or to cold frames.  We'll be filling the back room.  Tiffany has been potting perennials, they will go to the perennial cold frame, with a blanket handy incase there is a cold snap.  For now they are going under the benches.  I had put some tubs of compost in the hoop house last fall.  She used it up.  I was able to go get six more tubs of thawed compost off the compost pile. Without getting the tractor stuck!

      I need to make cookies.  As the grandkids  and neighbor kids who live on the "mud closed"  Atkinson Road walk up here to catch the school bus some have found out the best way is through our back door and out our front door, past the cookie jar.

      Have a good day, Sally