Sunday, 10:15 am: I started today’s blog much earlier than yesterday. It was probably the three cups of coffee, and the blueberry pancakes my wife prepared for breakfast. I feel like I need my chainsaw and flannel shirt today. How stereotypically Maine is that? I’m really a city-slicker "from away". Please, no more Monty Python jokes.

The wind was blowing much of the night and continues as I type. The outside temperature remains in the mid-20s (F.) but the wind chill frequently drops into the single digits. For this time of year it is actually a nice day. This winter has been good to me – I haven’t slipped and fallen on ice . . . not yet.

Our tomato seeds have started sprouting in our indoor peat containers. They are my own variety; a cross between Early Girl and Brandywine tomatoes, the latter being, to my taste buds, rather tasteless and blah. Last summer one of my Early Girl plants was accidentally pollinated by a nearby Brandywine plant. The resulting fruit tasted good, like an Early Girl, but had the appearance of a smaller-size Brandywine tomato. I’ll keep you posted on my dabblings in horticulture.

Current values from our
Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 28° (F.)

Barometer: 29.70 and rising slowly

Humidity: 69%

Winds: NW at 10 mph and gusty

Visibility: > 3 mi. 100% overcast

Precipitation: None

Since midnight:

Low temp: 23.3° (F.) at 6:36 am

High wind: 25 mph at 9:53 am