6/30/23 To be joyful choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

.30 of rain yesterday.  Total rain for the June with the most days it rained since 1996, 6.39 inches.  It is foggy and calm this morning, 62 degrees.  Some sun this afternoon, a stray thunderstorm is possible.  Today's high, 79 with a SS breeze.  Cloudys tonight with a SSe breeze, a low of 62.  Morning clouds/afternoon sun tomorrow with a brisk SSE breeze, a high of 79. a low of 63.  Showers Sunday with a SSE breeze, a high of 72, a low of 63.  Thunderstorms Monday with an ESE breeze, a high of 74, a low of 64.  Scattered thunderstorms Tuesday with a NE breeze, a high of 75, a low of 64.  PM thunderstorms Wednesday with a NNW breeze, a high of 82, a low of 66.  Partly cloudy Thursday with an east breeze, a high of 85, a low of 67.  PM thunderstorms next Friday with a SSE breeze, a high of 85, a low of 66.  Scattered thunderstorms next weekend and the week of the 10th with easterly breezes, with highs about 76, lows about 62.

     Yesterday started out with a successful physical therapy session and a warning that even though I was feeling better and regaining strength I needed to realize I could not always do things I've been able to do in the past.  A new normal.  I came home and did odd and ends.  I tried to renew my Sam's membership online but the family add ons were so jumbled I went to town.  The heated truck seat on my back was a good thing. It took twenty minutes standing at Sam's service desk to get the membership straightened out.  I would not have been able to do that before my PT visit. When I came home I cleaned the hummingbird bird and the other birds' feeders.  Slimy wet sunflower seeds, some trying to grow had to be cleaned out.  Then I used vinegar on the feeders.  I used vinegar to clean the hummingbird feeders too.  Five minutes after I came in the birds were enjoying a bedtime snack.

     Jay and Bekah spent most of the day working on the pollinator garden.  They have been too busy to work in it and it was a mess like my kitchen garden. Weeds and grass have grown well in the rain.  They took out buckets of weeds and put in buckets of mulch.  They were pleased with their day's work.  They saw lots of toads, including the biggest one they have ever seen.  There are lots of bugs for the toads to eat this year!

     We are looking forward to some dryer days.  Mowing the lawns again will top the list.    There is a nice selection of annuals for sale in the nursery to use anyplace in the gardens that need color.  Bekah and Jay planted some of the old fashioned ones in the heritage garden at the town history museum.  I'm going to put more perennials in mine.  There are so many to choose from I'm going to get Bekah to help me decide which ones.

     May God bless you on this day, Sally