5/18/24 Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long ago. 

We watched the rain go around us yesterday.   Clouds this morning with showers this afternoon.  A high of 70, an east breeze.  Intermittent showers tonight with a light east breeze, a low of 53.  Clouds tomorrow with an east breeze, a high of 69, a low of 51.  Partly cloudy Monday with a brisk SSW breeze, a high of 76, a low of 52.   Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday with brisk SSW breezes, highs in the mid eighties, lows about 59.  Scattered thunderstorms Thursday with  a brisk SW breeze, a high of 81, a low of 58.  Partly cloudy Friday with a strong west breeze, a high of 77, a low of 52.  Partly cloudy next Weekend with highs about 73, lows about 49.  A NNW breeze Saturday, an east breeze Sunday.  Perhaps a shower next Monday morning with an ESE breeze, a high of 69, a low of 51. Cloudy with occasional showers the 28th through the 31st with southerly breezes, highs in the low seventies, lows in the low fifties.  Partly cloudy Saturday, June 1st with a WSW breeze, a high of 75, a low of 54.

      I spent most of yesterday by the phone. (Cell service is too poor here to get rid of the landline)  I was waiting for the doctor's office to call about my bloodwork results.  They had me go to the health center for more tests.  The doctor is scheduling me for an iron transfusion.  I am on maintenance iron because pemphigoid interferes with the production of red blood cells.  The maintenance iron wasn't enough to prevent me from getting anemic.  I filled hummingbird feeders.  I need to fill a favorite feeder again this morning.

     Heather got the rest of the strawberry plants planted.  A job she was glad to get done with.  Now she can get back to her flowers.  The greenhouse is getting hot so  Bekah moved most of the plants outside.  She also did more transplanting and of course she watered and helped customers.

     Jay finished rocking around the pond.  No more leaks and it looks good.  He has a little more rock work he wants to do but needs just the right rock.  His day started at 7:30, waiting on a customer who had asked to come early.  The customer needed landscaping suggestions.  He also wanted plants that would confuse mosquitoes and black flies as he lives on a stream.

     Doug has been cutting grass and taking it to his beef cows, Bekah has done the same with the dairy heifers.  Feeding some grass before turning them out on pasture prevents digestive upsets.  Today is the day they go to the pasture. The mothers will be so excited to be on the pasture they will be frolicking like their little calves..

      May God bless you on this day, Sally