7/14/23  It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.  Queen Elizabeth

Cloudy, calm, with some haze.  Cloudy this morning, scattered thunderstorms this afternoon, likely thunderstorms tonight.  A SE breeze with a high of 92, a low of 66.  Scattered thunderstorms tomorrow with a SE breeze, a high of 81, a low of 67.  Thunderstorms Sunday with a brisk SSE breeze, a high of 77, a low of 65.  Scattered thunderstorms Monday with a south breeze, a high of 89, a low of 66.  Thunderstorms Tuesday with a brisk south breeze,a high of 85, a low og 63.  Partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday.  A west breeze Wednesday with a high of 83, low of 61.  A SW breeze Thursday with a high of 81, a low of 61.  Scattered thunderstorms next Friday with a SE breeze, a high of 78, a low of 64.  Possible morning showers next Saturday with a SE breeze, a high of 79, a low of 61.  Isolated Thunderstorms Sunday the 23rd and Monday the24th, cloudy the 25th  Unsettled weather the rest of the week with highs in the low to mid eighties, lows in the mid sixties.

      Yesterday was a good day for me.  An Amish lady came and cleaned.  Mostly places that take standing on a chair or are hard to get to.  Everything looks so nice, I hadn't realized how depressing the dust and cobwebs were until they were gone.  After I took her home I did the floors.

      Jay had customers coming out to the field why he was picking cucumbers.   Other customers waited at the stand for Azala to bring them cucumbers. When he came in from the field he only had enough to fill a cooler half full.  There are new potatoes and peas on the stand.  He pulled some garlic, the rest will wait until next week. He and Heather sold lots of perennials.  Heather's flowers are blooming so there are always some bouquets for sale.  She takes other bouquets to restaurants.  She provides bouquets for special events on order.  Bekah spent the morning bumping perennials up into larger pots. In the afternoon she raked hay.  Doug round baled it last night for his cows.

     Cucumbers and eggs.  I have people waiting for me to go to the hen house to see if the hens have laid enough more eggs to make a dozen.   I'll be glad when the pullets start laying.

     Wednesday night something dragged a fifty pound bag of sunflower seeds onto the back deci and tore it open so they could eat several pounds of sunflower seeds.  Must have been a raccoon.  yesterday a pair of purple finches brought their hatchlings to the feeders.  There have been very few birds at the feeders.

      May God bless you on this day, Sally