7/23/26  Good Morning! May your day be filled with happiness, peace, and beautiful moments. 

Some places in Maine saw severe storms yesterday, we got a few rain drops.  Sunshine today, strong ENE breezes, high 74, low 52.  Sunshine this weekend, WSW and south breezes, in the eighties, lows 56. Partly cloudy Monday, a SSW breeze, high 82, low 58.   33% chance of afternoon showers Tuesday, a brisk SSE breeze, high 74, low 60.  Rain Wednesday, a NW breeze, high 74, low 60.  Partly cloudy next Thursday, Friday and Saturday, westerly breezes, highs around 80, lows about 61.  30% chance of shows next Sunday, a west breeze, high 80, low 60.  Partly cloudy the week of the 3rd, west breezes, highs in the low to mid eighties, lows 63.

     Didn't get much house cleaning done yesterday,no school means a houseful of kids.  It also means when I get home from getting a haircut some kids are cleaning the house.

     I took a kombucha making class yesterday.  The Lady that gets some of Bekah's milk to make cheese is bringing me a scoby Friday.  In the old days we called it "the mother". It's a clump of good bacteria to ferment the kombucha properly.  Nutritionists have learned that the old ways of preserving foods by fermenting gives us good bacteria when we eat the food.  No more buying bottles of probiotic tablets. Yesterday's class was part of a series of classes on preserving by fermenting that I'm taking.

     Last night I took the first load of lavender out of the dehydrator and put in the second. The girls like lavender/lemon iced tea. And they make a lavender lotion. The dehydrator will be used a lot until fall when we start the cookrange.  There is a drying rack over the range.  Some things can't wait until fall to be dried.

     I planted some lettuce and broccoli seeds yesterday.  A week or two later than I like  to start fall broccoli.  Not too late according to google.

     Bekah has been cleaning chichen housing this week.   This year's pullets will now be moved into their permanent home.  She has saved some old hay to pile on the pile of chicken manure to keep the smell down.  It would have been nice to get rain on the pile yesterday.  Some people clean their chicken house out weekly.  We put fresh straw on their floor every week.  By winter there will be a warm pack on the cold cement floor.  Gilbert used to clean the chicken house for me because he wanted to compost it and put it in his garden.

    May your day be blessed, Sally