8/8/23 You don't always have to be doing something.  You can just be.

.10 of rain overnight.  Cloudy now, heavy rains expected to start mid morning with a strong ESE breeze.  It is 59 now, today's high 67.  A stiff ENE breeze tonight with showers and thunderstorms, a low of 63.  Cloudy tomorrow with a strong WNW breeze, a high of 73, a low of 58.  Partly cloudy Thursday with a SW breeze, a high of 83, a low of 63.  Scattered thunderstorms Friday with  strong west breeze, a high of 74, a low of 59.  Partly cloudy Saturday with a WSW breeze, a high of 80, a low of 62.  Scattered thunderstorms Sunday with a SSW breeze, a high of 77, a low of 60.  Partly cloudy Monday with a west breeze, a high of 78, a low of 61.  Showers next Tuesday with a SSW breeze, a high of 78, a low of 60. Pleasant next Wednesday and Thursday with brisk SSW breezes, highs of 81, lows about 62.  Possible morning showers Friday the 18th and the weekend with WSW breezes, highs in the low eighties, lows about 60.  Possible showers Monday the 21st with WSW breezes, a high of 80, a low of 58.  Partly cloudy Tuesday the 22ed with SW breezes  high of 79, a low of 59.

       The selectmen's meeting last night ran past my bedtime!  so a late loop today.  Thankfully we no longer have a town manager.  Hopefully the town gets past the toxic environment and poor management of the manager who resigned last night.  Another meeting tonight as the selectman makes plans for recovery and moving forward.  Tonight's meeting should not last as long.

      A neighbor's house burned yesterday, a total loss.  Bradford's response to the fire highlighted the chaos the town is in.  Fortunately five other towns came to our aid.  In this case I don't think a quicker more organized response would have made a difference.  The fire got a good start before it was noticed.  They believe it was started by an electrical malfunction.  Very nice family, very sad.

     I did get some good news yesterday.  The neighbor who was going to spray foam on two of my cellar walls came and looked at the cellar.  He said the holes in the rock wall needed to be repaired before the foam could be applied.  And that once the holes were repaired he didn't think I would need the foam.  He and Jay made plans to get mortar and rocks and repair the wall.

    Mike came by with another load of next winter's firewood.  Doug had hauled it out to the wood yard.  Lil Mike has split and stacked it.  Now it is being moved inside.  Kaden, Sally Jo and Doug were making hay so it didn't get stacked last night.  Thanks to this summer's wet weather they are still working on first cutting.

    Jay, Bekah, Darel and Heather took advantage of the nursery being closed Mondays and took the grandkids to hike the Orono bog walk.  They had a great time.  They filled the vegetable coolers before they left.  

    May God bless you on this day, Sally