4/27/26  Resilience isn’t just built in soil and systems. It’s grown in how we listen, speak, and care for one another and the world around us.

Sunshine, 40 degrees.  A high of 70 today, mostly sunny, a light NE breeze.  Clear tonight, low 37.  Sunshine tomorrow, a high of 66, a brisk SE breeze,  low 40.  Cloudy Wednesday, a brisk SE breeze, high 53,  Rain Wednesday night, low 41.  Rain Thursday and Friday, highs about 50, lows about 40.  A strong east breeze Thursday, a strong north breeze Friday,  Morning showers Saturday, some afternoon sun.  A west breeze, high 52, low 38.  Showers Sunday, a NW breeze, high 50, low 37. Partly cloudy next Monday, a brisk west breeze, high 57, low 42. Although the  greenhouse is open now,  next Monday is the first day of Open Greenhouse Week. Partly cloudy early next Tuesday, PM showers. A west breeze, high 60, low 44.  Showers next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, brisk NW breeze, highs about 57, lows 44, 42, and 40.  Partly cloudy Mother's Day weekend, the 9th and 10th. NW breezes, highs 55, lows 41.  Partly cloudy Monday the 11th, a brisk NW breeze, high 56, low 42.

   All of the fruit trees and shrubs are potted up.  We are always so pleased with  the quality of the Bailey order.  The ginkgo biloba trees are packed in damp straw..  An order of several boxes is coming today via UPS.  I keep checking our email hoping there will be one saying the seed potatoes are ready to be picked up.

   Butter and cottage cheese today.  Even though our pleasant weather is limited, butter and cottage cheese need to be made when we have the milk and cream.

   We still have so many birds.  Last fall we noticed that many of the seeds of sunflowers and other flowers didn't have meat in them. The acorns were small and empty.  We believe it was because of the drought.  I'm thankful I can buy enough sunflower seeds to keep filling the feeders because I think nature's food supply also suffered from the drought.

   May your day be blessed, Sally.