3/8/16

Stress is caused by not gardening enough!

  Calm, 32 degrees with some clouds.   Clearing this morning with a light NNW breeze and a high of 44 this afternoon.  Dropping to 31 tonight.   Am showers tomorrow with a SSW breeze, a high of 53 tomorrow afternoon and a low of 36.  Afternoon Thursday lasting into Friday morning.  A Ne breeze with a high of 47 and a low of 31 Thursday.  A high of 50 Friday with a NNW breeze Friday, a low of 24.  Partly cloudy on the week end with highs of 50 and lows of 32.  A SW breeze Saturday, a light NW breeze Sunday.   Showers Monday with a light east breeze, a high of 48 and a low of 32.  Morning clouds with afternoon sun on Tuesday with a light north breeze, a high of 49 and a low of 32.  PM showers next Wednesday with a north breeze, a high of 49 and a low of 33.  Morning clouds, afternoon sun next Thursday, a light west breeze, with a high of 51 and a low of 35.   Partly cloudy Friday, the 18th, and Saturday, the 19th with highs of 55 and lows of 35.  Morning showers the next three days with highs about 50 and lows about 33.

      It was 34 all day yesterday---and snowed all day.  we got a couple inches of very wet snow.  It was 32 all night so why it never froze it hasn't melted.  I did get the hose out.  Since it was chilly a couple of the short connecting hoses cracked and I had to make new ones.  But we do having running water in the greenhouse all the time now.

      Every finch in the country was here feeding, gold finches, purple finches and pine siskins.  Thee was a cloud of birds when you looked out the kitchen window.  They only moved out of the way when I filled the feeders, usually they fly away.  Even the cardinals just ducked into the Christmas trees. The snow was so wet and sticky the icy paths weren't slippery.

      We set up the table for plants in the get-together room.  Plants are about to take over the house.  I don't know what to think of the forecast.  It certainly looks like we will be able to move into the hoop house and cold frames when the greenhouse gets too crowed.  Usually the weather calls the shots, not the plants.

      Enjoy your day, Sally