8/17/26"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." — Lao Tzu

   As so often seems to happen we didn't get the overnight rain that was forecast and less is forecast for today.  Rain will start shortly and continue for a few hours, then showers, then cloudy the rest of the day.  A stiff SSW breeze, high 70, low 63.  Showers tomorrow, a light NE breeze, high 75, low 62.  Mostly cloudy Wednesday, a west breeze, high 81, low 59.  Part;y cloudy Thursday, a WNW breeze, high 80, low 55.  Sunshine Friday, a WNW breeze, high 81, low 55.  Partly cloudy Saturday, a SE breeze, high 78, low 58. Showers Sunday, an ESE breeze, high 76. low 61.  Scattered thunderstorms next Monday, a SW breeze, high 75, low 56. Partly cloudy the rest of the work week, WNW breezes, highs 76, lows 56.  Possible showers Saturday the 29th, a WNW breeze, high 76, low 56.  Partly cloudy Sunday the 30th, a WNW breeze, high 75, low 56.  Morning showers Monday the 31st, a WNW breeze, high 75, low 56.

   I'm not sure we'll get enough rain to help the pastures or second cutting.  We won't have to water today, a nice break but not enough.  At least for now the fire danger is only moderate. And there are no nineties in the forecast, not even high eighties.

  Today is make butter day.  Sweet corn and lobster feeds mean we sold our last pound of butter yesterday. Bekah thought there was a good cushion with several pounds in the freezer.   

   I'm getting several eggs a day from the pullets.  Soon there will be eighteen sized boxes for sale for three dollars.  A per ounce equivalent of a dozen of our boxes of large plus, henhouse run, brown eggs.  We won't be selling any of the blue or green eggs for a while, they start out so small, we'll use them ourselves.

    May your day be blessed, Sally

A lifestyle that cannot sustain protecting a two to three hour window for your mind and soul is not a sustainable lifestyle.  It's not regenerative."  The same principle that governs what a farm does to its soil governs what a life does to the people living it. Take more than you give, and eventually you run out. Give back more than you take – in soil and in time and in community – and something can actually last.