2/5/26  Learn to let each day go and do not let yesterday’s problems destroy today. Take advantage of the new day and make it the best you can. 

Cloudy, calm, 16 degrees.   Partly cloudy with a stiff NNW breeze, high 25.  Clear tonight, low -6.  Partly cloudy tomorrow, a light NNE breeze, high 20, low 6.  Cloudy Saturday, a stiff NNW breeze all day and night.   High 25, low 2.  Morning clouds/afternoon sun on Sunday,  A brisk north breeze, high 10, low -2.  Mostly sunny Monday, a strong NW breeze, high 20, low 4.  Mostly sunny Tuesday, a NW breeze, high 28, low 13.  Partly cloudy Wednesday, a north breeze, high 31, low 23.  Snow showers Wednesday night.  Snow showers next Thursday through next weekend.  1-3 inches Saturday night, i-3 inches Sunday.  NNW breezes, highs 32-36, lows about 20.  Mostly cloudy Monday the 16th and Tuesday the 17th, brisk NW breezes, highs 19.  Snow showers Tuesday night, Wednesday and Thursday the 19th.

    No snow flurries in the forecast but they are out there.  No sign of sun mixing with the clouds. The weather matches our mood.  The new normal is hard.  No Gilbert coming in for tea and a cookie or muffin.  The gardens "planted" around the table on winter mornings were marvelous.  So productive and no weeds!  In October Gilbert was always going to cut back.  By February the cutting back idea started just being an idea.

    The fruit trees and shrubs confirmation from Bailey nursery came yesterday.  Incredible hydrangeas are the only things questionable.  One of the plum varieties got changed to a smaller size, 3 or 4 things were changed to a larger one. Everything on the Prides nursery order was confirmed. Confirmation on strawberries and blueberries came a few weeks ago.  They come the first week in May. We start our own rhubarb.  The seeds have all germinated and are ready for their first transplanting.

    The sun is trying to shine.  Jay is going to clean the chimney. We didn't need that skiff of snow on the ice.  Jay had the area around the front door well sanded so it isn't slippery.

    People had bought things for the silent auction to Maple Lane Farm.  They just dropped the items off.  The get together room is filling up!  Mike and Marcia Lanchester won a 500 dollar gift certificate from JDH designs at the Festival of Trees.They gave it to Barbie and the girls for the silent auction or to use however they wanted.  JDS Designs makes shirts and hats for fire departments.  They decided to give it to Bradford Fire Department.  Help for the spaghetti dinner benefit Saturday night has come from surrounding towns as well as Bradford.  But Bradford people have done all the organizing and most of the work.  Giving the certificate to the fire department as a way of saying thank-you.

    May your day be blessed, Sally