3/29/16

Take good care of your body, it is the only place you have to live.

  32 degrees, rain/snow and wind.  Strong winds today with a high of 40 and a low of 25.  Partly sunny tomorrow with a WSW breeze, a high of 52 and a low of 37.  Partly sunny Thursday with a SSW, a high of 61 and a low of 52.  Showers Thursday with a SSW wind, a high of 62 and a low of 38.  PM showers Saturday with a stiff SW breeze, a high of 51 and a low of 28.  AM snow showers Sunday with a strong NWN wind, a high of 38 and a low of 13.  Partly cloudy Monday with a WNW wind, a high of 33 and a low of 17.  Sunny next Wednesday with a SSW breeze, a high of 41 and a low of 27.  Mostly cloudy next Thursday with a SSE breeze, a high of 45 and a low of 34.  Showers Friday, the 8th, through Tuesday, the 12th , with highs around fifty and lows in the mid thirties.

      It poured all night but there wasn't any wind and it didn't cool off until a short time ago.  I only put wood on the fires once but I'll probably be putting wood on them every three or four hours today.  There is some white slop out there now, not enough to measure.  Any wood I save with the warm weather this week I'll burn up Sunday and Monday.  We are going to move into the back room today so I'll have to heat it.  We'll be putting flowers and herbs that don't like the warm greenhouse out thee but thirteen is too cold.

     We haven't seen the cardinals the last few days.  Last week there was a male in the chestnut tree and another one in the birch tree by the greenhouse.  They spent their days calling for a mate.  Other years once we stop hearing the mating songs we don't see them until fall.  Will the wet snow/slush bring them back to the feeders?  I filled the feeders this morning.  i was afraid to put seeds in the platform feeders for fear the snow forecast north of here would sneak down.  As it was I had to clean the icy slush off the tube feeders.

      Spring!  Have a good day, Sally