6/24/26  Today we're blessed with sunshine and a breeze, may you all have a  productive day.

 It's mostly clear, a gentle east greeze, 58 degrees.  Some clouds today, a strong NW breeze, high 79, low 55,  Cloudy tomorrow, showers tomorrow night.  A west breeze, high 78, low 57,  Thunderstorms Friday, a SSE breeze, high 69. low 57.  Partly cloudy Saturday through the 4th of July.  Westerly breezes.  Saturday's high 76, then highs in the 80s until the 4th with a high of 76.  Lows in the upper fifties and sixties.  Possible PM showers Sunday the 5th, A north breeze, high 77, low 58.  Isolated thunderstorms the next three days, NW breezes, highs about 79, lows about 59.

     I'm going to get outside as soon as I can.  I'll be spraying with horitual vinegar.  Mostly edges, paths and around the outside eating area.  Places where grass and creeping charlie is encroaching where it shouldn't.  I'll be spraying Bishop's weed where it is growing in the rock edges.  I'll be pulling it by hand around the good plants, I don't want any vinegar drifting on them.  It is blooming, I don't want it to go to seed. Yesterday I picked up Country Junction t-shirts for Jay and Bekah to sell in the store.  Thanks to a detour I was on a road bordered by old homes.  Nearly every home had a patch of Bishop's weed.  It is pretty but we have had trouble with it growing in places we didn't want it.  Seeds spread by the wind or birds?  Wherever it grows it overpowers everything else.

   I'll be taking a break this afternoon to take some things to the Charleston Baptist Church Community Closet.  Usually I just drop off whatever I'm donating and leave.  Everything is free but I'm trying to downsize.  Today Sally Jo is going with me so we will be looking around.  She is at the accumulating stage of life.  Plus they have children's clothes.

   I'm planting calendula and dill today. Both reseed so well that we usually don't have to plant them.  There doesn't seem to be as many plants this year.  We want to make calendula salves.  Usually  we pay no attention to calendulas until it's time to harvest the blossoms.  When we went to harvest them last year they were infested with aphids.  Probably why the patch is thin this year.  We'll pay more attention to them this summer.  I think we picked too much dill, there wasn't enough left to go to seed.  I'm starting a second patch.

   May your day be blessed, Sally