3/7/22  Don't wait for things to get better, learn to be happy now.  Otherwise you might run out of time.

.25 inch of rain yesterday.  Occasional showers this morning, rain this afternoon and evening with a WSW breeze and a high of 4.  Clearing after midnight with a low of 29.  Strong WNW winds tomorrow, some sun, a high of 33, a low of 15.  Cloudy Wednesday with a brisk SW breeze, a high of 39, a low of 24.  Partly cloudy Thursday with a west breeze, a high of 45, a low of 21.  Cloudy Friday with a brisk SE breeze, a high of 45, a low of 32.  Rain Saturday with a SE wind, a high of 49, a low of 16.  Partly cloudy Sunday with a west wind, a high of 26, a low of 18.  Partly cloudy Monday with a light SW wind, a high of 41, a low of 32.  Morning clouds/afternoon sun next Tuesday with a strong west breese, a high of 43, a low of 17.  Partly cloudy next Wednesday with a brick NW breeze, a high of 34, a low of 20.  Rain/snow showers the next four days to usher in spring on the 20th.Stiff NW breezes, highs about 40, lows in the twenties.

      Yesterday was a very quiet day.  I fell asleep mid morning, waking when Lil Andrew stopped in to see if I needed anything.  On his way out he stopped and put wod on the greenhouse stove.   It didn't get as warm a forecast but it got warm enough so the heat from the wood stove kept the furnace from coming on.  After visiting with Kirby for a while in the afternoon I turned the thermostat down to 65 from 68. He sets his greenhouses at 65 and he doesn't have a wood stove to raise the temperature any higher.  He counts on the sun and there isn't much of that in the two week forecast.  Those of us who have fewer years of experience in the greenhouse business are fortunate to have him for a mentor.  

      I spent some time with the culture pages in the catalogs looking for ways to tweak what we are doing.  Little things add up to save money or grow better plants.

      I got to see Sally Jo and congratulate her.  You may remember a while back Sally got student of the quarter at her highschool.  This quarter she is student of the quarter at UTC.  Chosen from all those students from all those schools!  She is studying horticulture.  Besides high school and UTC she has an afterschool job, volunteers at her church and cares for her animals!  And always has time to be a caring person with a smile.

     May God be with you this day, Sally