4/12/16
When you arise in the morning think what a privilege it is to be alive to think, to breath, to enjoy and to love.

 45 degrees, light SW breeze, fog mist and showers.  Rain late this morning and afternoon with a stiff SW breeze, a high of 52 and a low of 32 tonight.  Sunny tomorrow and Thursday with NW breezes, highs of 53 and lows of 29.  Sunny Friday with a NE breeze, a high of 56 and a low of 30.  Sunny Saturday with a light SW breeze, a high of 62 and a low of 37.  Sunny Sunday with a WNW breeze, a high of 69 and a low of 41.  Partly cloudy Monday with a NE breeze, a high of 62 and a low of 32.  Partly cloudy next Tuesday with a stiff NNW breeze, a high of 56 and a low of 34.  Mostly sunny next Wednesday with a NNW breeze, a high of 56 and a low of 35.  Showers Thursday, the 21st, with a NW breeze, a high of 59 and a low of 39.  Partly cloudy Friday, the 22ed, with a WNW breeze, a high of 60 and a low of 38.  Possible AM showers Saturday, the 23rd, with a WNW breeze, a high of 56 and a low of 37.  50% chance of showers the next three days with highs in the upper fifties and lows around forty.

      Spring is here.  We were so anxious and now there aren't enough hours in the day!  Moving plants, bumping plants up into larger pots, pruning plants and transplanting more.  So far the plants are all healthy and just need room to grow.  The pansies are ready to be planted so their bright colors can cheer everyone up as they signal the changing season.  The air is filled with bird song and I'm hoping to hear peepers tonight.

       Today we are potting up tomato plants to give away Open Greenhouse and Nursery Day, April 30th.  Yesterday Rosemarie bumped up perennial herbs and put them outside.  I pruned pansy pots and put them outside.  They wanted out a week ago!  They are covered with buds, ready to open to the the sun.  The rest of the pansies will go out tomorrow and we will be open for the season. 

       Everything won't be in its place, the Paris Farmer's Union order is coming today.  It will take a few days to unpack it.  Besides the bags of soil and compost we've always had we are going to have a wide choice of Coast of Maine products.  We ran out of Coast of Maine compost and soil quickly last year and customers were asking us to carry more of their products.  Last year at this time we were postponing the paris Farmer's union shipment because of snow drifts.  Lil Andrew had to shovel out a display bench so we could put out pansies!

       Have a good day, Sally.