8/12/23 Find the gift in every day.

 Mostly clear, calm, 57 degrees.  Sun and clouds mixed today with a WSW breeze, a high of 78.  Showers this evening become a steady rain over night with a SSE breeze and a low of 62.  Thunderstorms tomorrow morning, scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon with a south breeze, a high of 76, a low of 60. Partly cloudy Monday with a WNW breeze, a high of 78, a low of 59.  48% chance of showers Tuesday with an east breeze, a high of 73, a low of 61.  Possible morning showers Wednesday with a NNW breeze, a high of 75, a low of 60.  Partly cloudy Thursday with a SW breeze, a high of 79. a low of 61.  42% chance of showers Friday with a brisk SSW breeze, a high of 76, a low of 60.  Partly cloudy next Saturday and Sunday with brisk NW breezes, highs about 80, lows about 60.  Partly cloudy the week of the 21st with WNW breezes.  Highs from the high seventies early in the week to the low seventies later in the week.  Lows in the upper to mid fifties.  Slight chance of morning showers Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

     Yesterday was a pleasant day.  A .02 inch shower came through just as they were headed out to pick beans.  Enough to wet the vines.  Bean vines tend to mold if the beans are picked when the vines are  wet.  Catching a time when the vines are dry has been a challenge this year. So they picked blueberries.  For themselves, not the stand.  Thomas Farms moved into a different planting, they said we would be happy with the corn.  I got some for the stand and yes, it is good.

    Blue sky with a few pink clouds tells me I can do more mulching and weeding under the horse chestnut tree.  I battle Bishop's weed, some call it goutweed.  It is invasive enough to give a person gout.  I'm doing good to contain it, getting rid of it doesn't seem to be an option.  Now there is some out by the pond.  A bird ate some seeds, went to the pond for a drink and deposited the seeds?  It surprises me when I see it for sale in nursery catalogs.  Goutweed in the front yard, bamboo in the back yard means there is always something to be eradicated!

    May God bless you on this day, Sally