4/14/16

Digging in the soil is good for your insides.

Clear, 27 degrees, with a light breeze that will become a stiff north breeze this afternoon with a high of 51 and dropping o 28 tonight.  Sunny tomorrow with a NNE wind, a high of 54 and a low of 30.  Partly cloudy Saturday with a stiff NNE breeze, a high of 58 and a low of 33.  Sunny Sunday with a light SW breeze, a high of 68 and a low of 39.  Cloudy Monday with a SSW breeze, a high of  60 and a low of 35.  Partly cloudy Tuesday with a stiff north breeze, a high of 53 and a low of 31.  Partly cloudy Wednesday with a north wind, a high of 48 and a low of 30.  Sunny next Thursday with a WNW wind, a high of 58 and a low of 38.   Sunny next Friday with a west wind, a high of 60 and a low of 40.  Partly cloudy the weekend of the 23rd and 24th with west breezes, highs of 60 and lows of 39.  Showers the week of the 25th with highs of 60 and lows of 42.

     Yesterday everything needed water.   By the time I finished I knew how much we have this year!   Hopefully we  have enough so we don't start running out Memorial weekend like we did last year.  I like to have a nice choice of flowers for people moving to camp in June.  We have more wave petunias but we probably will run out of them, we only have so much hanging space.  We have some purple waves in 601 trays.  Rachael is going to put them in hanging pots today.  We'll put them in the hoop house for a third round.  

     Quite a few pansies sold yesterday.  Andrew, Annabelle and I planted the pansies in the sign box at church last night.  Annabelle is right into planting and was very proud of the results.  Some of the pansies were a little deep and needed some tweaking from Great Grandma.

     The birds are chilly this morning.  The doves and robins are puffed up twice their normal size.  There are only a few pine siskens left,  most of them have headed north.  I haven't heard the second male cardinal for a few days.  I hope he found a local mate and didn't leave to find one.  I don't expect to see them again until fall.

     I bought a trellis fence to use across the opening of the baker on the barn.  I want the chickens to start "tick patrol" around the yard and out back in my garden.  I don't want them to go in the baker and roost on Doug's jeep and the machinery.  So far I'm just letting them out behind the barn.

     Have a good day, Sally