4/5/16
Today is the day to stop stressing about things we cannot control or change. Like the temperature!

  9 degrees, calm and clear.  A high today of 32 with a NNW wind and a low of 14 tonight.  Partly cloudy tomorrow with a SWS breeze, a high of 41 and a low of 28.  Rain Thursday with a south wind, a high of 47 and a low of 46.  Partly cloudy with a stiff south breeze, a high of 51 and a low of 35.  Cloudy Saturday with a SW breeze, a high of 43 and a low of 28.  1-3 inches of snow Sunday with a stiff NW breeze, a high of 36 and a low of 23.  Partly cloudy Monday with a SW breeze, a high of 444 and a low of 31.  Light rain next Tuesday with a SSE breeze, a high of 47 and a low of 36.  Morning showers next Wednesday with a north breeze, a high of 50 and a low of 32.  Sunny Thursday, the 14th, with a NNE breeze, a high of 53 and a low of 32.  Partly cloudy Friday, the 15th, and Saturday, the 16th, with NE breezes, highs of 55 and lows of 37.  Morning showers the next three days with highs of 55 and lows of 39.

      This is the last single number we will see for several months, I hope.  I had thought I wasn't going to be thawing the chicken water anymore.  The up side is the greenhouse so needed the sunny days we've had with this cold spell.  Thanks to the sun I had to water yesterday but Gilbert helped with the hose so it didn't freeze up why I was running it.   Sunday's weather is nothing to be happy about, maybe it will go out to sea.  We are thankful the last snow stayed in southern New England.   Darel dumped more wood by the greenhouse back door for Gilbert to put in.  The forecast says we'll be needing fires for awhile.  

       First the greenhouse chimney,  then the pressure switch, now a leak in the horse barn.  We think that perhaps back six weeks or so ago when it froze that it got a hair line crack and hooking and unhooking the hose caused it to widen.  Doug is going back and forth to North Haven building a fence.  The ferry schedule dictates his time so we are going to have to be very gentle with the faucet until he can schedule a repair.  Probably Andrew or Gilbert can figure it out if necessary but Doug had always fixed that faucet.  These no freeze faucets seem to have problems. I hope the saying, "things come in threes" is right and nothing else goes.

      The gold finches are turning gold and I have to wear a scarf and gloves to feed them!  I don't know what the robins are finding to eat.  Rotten apples? Last fall was a good apple year.

      Have a good day, Sally