7/9/23  Happiness is something that multiplies when you divide it.

Cloudy, calm, and 68 degrees.  Cloudy today and tonight with SSE breezes.  Today;s high 80, tonight's low 65.  Showers tomorrow, a half inch of rain tomorrow night with light ESE breezes.  Tomorrow's high 77, the low 65.Rain  A steady rain Tuesday morning, showers with some thunder in the afternoon, SE breezes.  Tuesday's high 75, the low 63.  44% chance of PM thunderstorms Wednesday with a WSW breeze, a high of 85, a low of 60.  Isolated thunderstorms Thursday with a SSW breeze, a high of 82, a low of 64.  Scattered thunderstorms Friday, Saturday, and next Sunday with SSE breezes.  Friday and Saturday's high 76, the low 65.  Sunday's high 80, the low 66.  Showers next Monday and Tuesday with highs in the low eighties, lows of 66.  Partly cloudy Wednesday the 19th with a WSW breeze, a high of 85, a low of 64. Scattered thunderstorms the 20th and 21st with SW breezes, highs about 85, lows of 65.  Possible showers the next two days with WNW breezes, highs in the low eighties, lows of 64.

    Another hot summer day meant watering plants in pots and containers.  Some time was spent picking potato bugs.  Vegetables were harvested for the stand.  Maybe with the clouds the hoop house tomatoes won't need to be watered.  Bekah built a fence in the morning, the heifers did not get out.  Heather sold quite a few bouquets.

     I got half the sunflowers planted.  The patch is covered with cardboard and hay.  I have to cut holes in the cardboard, dig a hole in the gravel and drop in the sunflower.  One would think that as gravelly as the area is, nothing would grow.  Burdock plants are trying to grow under the cardboard and I have to dig them out.  If I don't they will find the hole I made for the sunflower plant and grow up through it.  It has been four years since any burdock has been allowed to grow and set seed in that spot.  So these burdocks are growing from five year old seeds.  I will finish planting them after church.

    May God bless you on this day, Sally