7/2/23 Stand for the flag.  Kneel at the cross.

Fog, calm, 63.  Rain this afternoon and tonight.  A south breeze today with a high of 72.  an east breeze tonight with a low of 63.  A NNE breeze tomorrow with light rain in the morning, clouds the rest of the day and Tuesday.  Tomorrow's high 76, the low 64.  

60% chance of a thunderstorm rolling through Tuesday with a light north breeze.  A high of 79, a low of 65.  Scattered thunderstorms Wednesday with a SSW breeze, a high of 83, a low of 65.  Partly cloudy Thursday with a SSW breeze, a high of 87, a low of 65.  PM thunderstorms Friday with a south breeze, a high of 86, a low of 65.  Scattered thunderstorms Saturday with a south breeze, a high of 81, a low of 63.   Scattered thunderstorms next Sunday with an east breeze, a high of 81, a low of 63.   Possible showers every day from Monday the 10th through Sunday the 16th, scattered thunderstorms Saturday the 15th.  There will be easterly breezes with highs in the upper seventies and lows in the low sixties.

    I got some weeding and planting done yesterday, not as much as I hoped but some.  I put some onion plants in one of the raised beds that I'd planted in a tray.  They were tiny, dead looking ones Jay was going to toss when he finished planting onions in May.  They are nice plants now but will they make onions?  Worth a try.  Late afternoon Darel's Heather and I decided to go visit Beth at Hutchinson's greenhouse.  She had quite a few fushicas left.  Because of soil problems the plants hadn't been large enough to sell in May.  Like some of ours.  Like some of ours, some of hers just died.  The soil company representative here in Maine told her the company had had breakdowns and couldn't get parts.  So they hired another company to make the soil.

    Beth has eleven greenhouses, each one twice the size of our one.  She grows plants that we don't have room for.  I bought a few,  Heather bought one or two of several different ones.  Mostly ones that aren't our zone so she will have to take them up or take cuttings to winter them over. Between what we bought and some Beth gave us we had a full pick up.

     Shortly after we headed home we got a call from Doug.  He and Nicole had gone to look at Mike and Heather's new property in Dedham. When they got ready to come home Doug's truck started, quit and smelled like burning wire.  So we turned around and went to Dedham to give them a ride home.  Triple A took the truck to Quirk's.

    It was late when we got home so we didn't unload plants.  I'll be going to church online this morning.  Which is ok.  I'll have time to do some more planting before the rain.  The fuschias go in hanging pots.  I can pot them up in the garage when it is raining.

    May God bless you on this day, Sally