2/20/26  Don't just give your kids screens. Give them tools. Teach them that in a world of fragile glass, it’s a lot better to be made of steel.

Partly cloudy this morning, cloudy this afternoon, 1-3 inches of snow this evening. a NNE breeze, high 36. tonight's low 10. Morning clouds,partial clearing tomorrow afternoon.  a brisk north breeze, high 28,low 12.  Sunshine Sunday, a north breeze, high 36, low 15.  cloudy Monday, a NNE wind, high 28.  S NNE wind Monday night, low 17.  Partly cloudy Tuesday, A strong NW breeze, high 31,  low 3.  Partly cloudy Wednesday morning, clouds in the afternoon, 1-3 inches of snow Wednesday night.  A WSW breeze during the day, a high of 29.  A SSE breeze Wednesday night, a low of 18.  Rain/snow Thursday, snow showers Thursday night. A WSW breeze, high 40, low 18.  Partly cloudy Friday morning, cloudy Friday afternoon with flurries. A brisk WNW breeze, high 32, low 13.Partly cloudy next Saturday, WSW breeze, high 40, low 25.  Snow showers Saturday night. and Sunday morning.  A stiff west breeze Sunday, high 38, low 12. Partly cloudy Monday, a stiff WNW breeze, high 25, low 10.  Snow showers the rest of the week, highs around 30, lows in the teens.

    Screens haven't been very good to me this morning. The computer didn't cooperate with the weather forecast.  Now I have it and I disagree with the low temperatures.  Single number forecasts have been wrong the last week or so and I think the single numbers in the above forecast are too low.

   Heather hung the spring/summer curtains and changed the tablecloth and placemats.  This room has a spring look now, no single numbers in here.  The pellet stove is getting shut off these days because it gets too hot in here.  It was so pleasant yesterday I decided to see if the Nativity set had thawed enough to take down.  The girls beat me to it, It was already in the garage drying off!

    I've been seeing articles  about bacopa monnieri, an herb that has been used as a brain tonic for 3000 years.  Researchers are finding out why.  It deserves its reputation.  It looks and acts like the lovely white bacopa I plant by the pond every year.  The annual bacopa that I plant is Bacopa cabana.  Same family, but not the same Latin name.  

    May your day be blessed, Sally