3/30/26  To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Cloudy, gentle east breeze, 30 degrees.  Some sun this afternoon, high 58. a light SW wind.  Clouds tonight, a NW breeze, low 35. Showers tomorrow, possibly heavy rain later in the day.  Some snow may mix in early.  A NE breeze, high 39, low 32.  Showers Wednesday morning, perhaps some afternoon sun.  A brisk NW breeze, high 48, low 26.  Cloudy Thursday, a NE breeze, high 42, low 30.  A wintery mix Thursday night and Friday morning.  The mix changes to showers Friday afternoon and night.  A SE breeze Friday, high 37, low 31.  Cloudy Saturday,  high 42, low 33.  Light rain on Easter, a SE breeze, high 44, loww 36.  Partly cloudy Monday the 6th through Monday the 1th.  The only chance of showers in the forecast is Saturday the 11th, 40%.  NW breeze next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, highs about 47, lows about 29.  A west breeze Thursday the 9th, high 47, low 31.  Westerly breezes the next four days, highs in the fifties, lows 37.

   Bekah has been seeing bats.  Some species of Maine bats migrate south in the winter, others hibernate. It seems too cold for the hibernating bats to be up and moving.  Bekah looked it up, when spring is prolonged bats come out for water.  Hopefully with warmer temperatures some insects will hatch.

   I grow quite a few things in containers.  I didn't get them cleaned and sanitized last fall.  During the next few weeks I will use a stiff brush to take off stuck on dirt.  I'll wash them and rinse them with water with some bleach, about a fourth cup to a gallon.  Saturday the kids cleaned the baby chick waterers and feeders.

   The large flock of blackbirds has moved on.  We have a few red winged blackbirds singing in the swale.  They come scratch through the sunflower hulls under the feeders  looking for some that still have the meat in them.  Doves are ground feeders, they haven't left much for the blackbirds. Tfe female red-winged blackbirds  haven't arrived yet.

  The snow is gone, Jay will be able to clean up the area the Coast of Maine soils and compost go.  Soon we'll be getting a call asking if we are ready for delivery.  May your day be blessed, Sally