4/9/19
The rear view mirror is small compared to the windshield because where your headed is more important than where you've been.  

Clouds, light NE breeze, 4 inches of snow and 24 degrees.Clouds today,  It will get above freezing from about noon to eight this evening with a high of 37.  Snow flurries this afternoon with an east breeze, 1-3 inches of snow tonight with a low of 29.  Cloudy tomorrow with a NNE breeze, a high of 41 and a low of 25.  Sunny Thursday with a NW breeze, a high of 49 and a low of 25.  Cloudy Friday with a SW breeze, a high of 46 and a low of 38.  Showers Saturday with a strong WSW breeze, a high of 62 and a low of 37.  Cloudy Sunday with a WNW wind, a high of 48 and a low of 34.  Rain showers Monday and Tuesday, snow flakes may mix in, highs of 48 and lows of 33. A stiff NW breeze Monday with become a NW wind Tuesday.   Sunny next Wednesday with a stiff NW breeze, a high of 54 and a low of 31. Partly cloudy Thursday, the 18th, with a brisk WSW breeze, a high of 54 and a low of 38.   Showers Good Friday, Easter weekend and into the next week with highs about 52 and lows in the mid to upper thirties.

      Darel had a good day yesterday.  Both Raymonds came by.  Nothing boring about the afternoon with the three of them telling stories!

      I mostly made sure everything was staying warm as I rearranged the greenhouse for peppers. I got in lots of walking, making sure plants we had put in the outside greenhouses and cold frame stayed snug.  Actually the snow helped insulate against the chilly east breeze.  Schools were canceled.  A good call, the roads were very slippery in the afternoon, lots of accidents. With no school Sally Jo was able to put more wood in the big greenhouse.

    Time to start thinking about starting cabbage, broccoli and other cole crops.  Lettuce too.  With all the problems with unsafe lettuce people are going to be wanting to set out some lettuce plants in their flower garden.  Heather is hoping to have lettuce in the vegetable stand with aspargus.

     As I worked in the greenhouse yesterday wondering if the killdeer I had heard the night before would survive these chilly, snowy days I heard a male cardinal singing.  Sitting in the birch tree, qetting snowed on he still sang his mating song because spring always comes.  Sally