3/31/23 “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”   - Tim Cahill

 Fair with a light west breeze, 22 degrees. A west breeze today with a high of 45. Clouds will move in this afternoon.1-3inches of snow tonight with a SSE breeze, a low of 32.  A quarter inch of rain tomorrow and tomorrow evening with a SE breeze, a high of 46.  A NW breeze tomorrow night with a low of 29.  Strong NW winds Palm Sunday with sunshine, a high of 35, a low of 21.  Cloudy  Monday with a light SSW wind, a high of 44, a low of 34.  Sun and clouds Tuesday with a WNW breeze, a high of 53, a low of 31. Showers Wednesday with a NE breeze, a high of 44, a low of 40.  Showers Thursday with a high of 59, a stiff WNW breeze, a low of 33.  Partly cloudy Good  Friday with a WNW wind, a high of 43, a low of 28.  Partly cloudy next Saturday with a brisk WNW breeze, a high of 46, a low of 30.  Partly cloudy Easter Sunday with a NW breeze, a high of 49, a low of 35.  Showers the first three days  the week of the 10th, cloudy on the 13th and 14th.  An ESE breeze Monday, brisk NW breezes the rest of the week.  Highs in the upper forties, lows in the mid thirties.

     Another windy day.  Not windy enough to stop the ferry, Doug and Sally Jo were able to deliver the hay.  And get back home in time to move the cows around.   Mud means moving cows so they aren't in mud.   The wind was strong enough here to pop the metal clips holding the new plastic on the hoop house.  Jay had to keep after it all day.  Today old fashioned lathes will be put on to  reinforce the metal clips.

     One pair of cardinals must be nesting close by.  They are here early every morning, leaving when the grackles come in.  They come back late in the afternoon because grackles roost earlier than the other birds.  Our other local birds come late in the afternoon too.

     I took the propane tank to be filled for the hoop house heater.  Plans are to move the pansies on Monday.  They will open the back room Monday too. Large flocks of grackles on the fields in Corinth.  They can stay in Corinth.  I spent quite a bit of time watering plants.  For a few days when they moved plants to the greenhouse there weren't so many plants to water in the house.  The geraniums and some other plants were brought up from the cellar, now there are plants to water everywhere.

    Sally Jo has been helping me go through things upstairs..Last night Kaden loaded the pickup with boxes for the Salvation Army.  I'm taking them in today.  Cans of spray foam are on sale at Home Depot.  I'm going to get some and Andrew is going to fill the eaves with it so the grackeles can't nest in them.

    May God bless you on this day, Sally