6/22/23  New goals require different habits.

Clear, calm. 52 degrees.  Sunshine today with a SW breeze, a high of 81.  Clear tonight with a SSW breeze, a low of 50.  Partly cloudy tomorrow with a SSw breeze, a high of 79, a low of 65.  PM thunderstorms Saturday with a brisk SW breeze, a high of 78, a low of 66.  Thunderstorms Sunday with an east breeze, a high of 78, a low of 55. Showers Monday with a stiff east breeze, a high of 70, a low of 61. Scattered thunderstorms Tuesday with a SE breeze, a high of 72, a low of 62.  Showers Wednesday and next Thursday with SE breezes, highs about 70, lows about 60.  Scattered thunderstorms next Friday with a SE breeze, a high of 74, a low of 61.  Showers the weekend of the 1st and 2ed with SE breezes, highs of 75, lows of 62.  Scattered thunderstorms the next three days with NW breezes, highs about 80, lows about 63.

    The first day of summer was a pleasant summer day.  I spent it doing an unpleasant job.  The last few years I've moved the bales of hay we bank the house with away from the house and stacked them.  Some I used for mulch, some I reused for banking.  The last two years have been very dry, this year was not.  The bales are wet and slimy and good only for mulch.  Good for mulch but not pleasant to work with.  And I will need all new bales to bank with this fall.  The same weather that has made a slimy mess of the bales has made me get the banking off later than usual but it is mostly done.  I did get some parsley planted.  I planted the coleus I had slipped and rooted with some impatiens  along the house in the side yard.  The last T-ball game was last night.

    Jay and Bekah are somewhat caught up in the vegetable gardens so they started working on the pollinator garden yesterday.  A lot of perennials are behind.  My hibiscus by the front of the house just sent up new shoots in the last day or so.  Some of the hibiscus in my kitchen  garden didn't come back, now I'm wondering if maybe it will.  i planted laverta around it because the laverta will bloom this summer, the hibiscus blooms late.

    May God bless you on this day, Sally