4/7/22  How long can you survive just foraging?  Better plant a garden.

Clouds, a NE breeze, 34 degrees.  Mostly cloudy today with a stiff east breeze, a high of 55.  overcast tonight with an ESE breeze, a low of 38.  A half inch of rain tomorrow with  light ESE winds, a high of 48, a low of 36.  Afternoon showers Saturday with a stiff SSW breeze, a high of 56, a low of 37.  Cloudy Sunday with a strong NW breeze, a high of 52, a low of 37.  Partly cloudy Monday with a light NW wind, a high of 53, a low of 32. Clouds Tuesday with a WSW breeze, a high of 58, a low of 31.  Partly cloudy Wednesday with a NW breeze, a high of 61, a low of 38.  Partly cloudy Thursday with a WSW breeze, a high of 57, a low of 42.  Showers next Friday with a brisk SW breeze, a high of 56, a low of 40.  Cloudy next Saturday with a strong WNW breeze, a high of 53, a low of 35.  Partly cloudy next Sunday and Monday with stiff NW breezes, highs of 53, lows about 35.  Showers the 19th and 20th with stiff NW breezes, highs of 51, lows of 37.

      Most of the rest of our soils came yesterday. The rest comes Friday.   Unloading went smoothly.  Jay got quite a lot of the soils stacked before he had to go home to be with Violet so Bekah could come over.  He came over later and Bekah went home. He and Ayden worked on the hoop house.

      The rest of the calibrachoas went to the calibrachoa house.  Wave petunias were pruned and went to the cold frames.  A good start was made on other petunias.  The tomatoes are up, soon it will be time to transplant them.  They like the heat of the big greenhouse, they will go where the petunias were.  Last night when I plugged in the heater for one of the cold frames the fans went off.  The lights were still on so I'm not sure what happened.  I had to run a cord from the horse barn to that cold frame.  We had an extra heavy duty 100 foot cord just in case.  When Rob gets home from work today he is going to find out what is going on.

      More than half the hanging petunias were pruned.  The girls bought me the baskets, I pruned them and they hung them back up.  Several went in the back room so that we could  spread them out.  They don't look as pretty now, all their blossoms cut off and shorter.  In two weeks they will be covered with blossoms and we will be rearranging them again to give each one more room.

     The forecast says the pansies can go outside on the display benches now.  Before Sunday I will try to get some planted in the church box.  Some perennials that are under the benches will be happy to go where the petunias are and get more sun.  Soon they can go outside.  Then the pansy house will become the cabbage and broccoli house!  The hens are laying lots of eggs.  Mike put the egg refrigerator back in the vegetable stand with eggs in it.   There are still eggs in the front entry of the house  for the regular customers that get eggs all winter.

     May God be with you on this day.  Sally