3/2/22 Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.

Partly cloudy, a gentle west breeze, 23 degrees.  A few inches of new snow.  There are two less skunks in my kitchen garden than there were at dawn.    Clouds moving in today, snow showers later.  A strong NNW breeze, a high of 31, a low of 16.  Morning clouds, afternoon sun tomorrow with a NNW wind, a high of 27, a low of -4.  Partly cloudy Friday with a west breeze, a high of 22, a low of 3.  Partly cloudy Saturday with a brisk west breeze, a high of 33, a low of 17.  Afternoon rain/snow showers Monday with a stiff WNW breeze, a high of 40, a low of 25.  Morning snow showers Tuesday with a brisk NW breeze, a high oh 36, a low of 20.  Party cloudy next Wednesday and Thursday with brisk WSW breezes, highs about 40, lows about 23.  Afternoon rain/snow showers Friday, the 11th, with a WSW breeze, a high of 38, a low of 23.  Stiff WNW breezes with snow showers for the weekend and into the week of the 13th.  Highs around 30, lows in the teens.

     At 2am a skunk got caught in the live trap.  At 4:30 there was a second one trying to get it out.  I didn't even want to turn on the lights and disturb them.  I went back to bed.  I got up at 5:30, by six it was getting light enough to shoot and i called Doug.  The skunks are history. Much of the conversation yesterday was wondering fi there were two skunks.  So many holes, so many tracks.  Strawberries and cat food lured the female into the trap.

     Debbie and i had a pleasant rip to Bangor.  i stopped and ordered another ton of pellets on the way home.  Debbie came home with me and unloaded my groceries.  Andrew picked her up here.  Neither of us got a lot of groceries.  i did get sunflowers seeds for the birds.  And a bag of woodpecker mix for their treat.  That took care of the rest of the Sam's card reward money! The cardinals and finches love that food more than the woodpeckers.  I haven't seen the fourth male cardinal in a few days.  i guess he decided the females here were all taken, he had best look for a mate elsewhere.

     Doug got a bottle of anointing oil from his pastor.  Last night Bekah's family Joined together  at Doug and Nicole's house.  We joined hands, prayed, while Doug held Violet and anointed her with the oil.  It will be a few days before Bekah gets the results from yesterday's full body scan.  Violet enjoyed playing with the littles last night.

    May God be with you this day, Sally