Good Morning!

I love getting up before everyone else does and listen to the birds.  This morning is no different in that aspect.  However, there is one thing about the morning that has caused me to look up the weather.  The sunrise is red.  True to the saying, "Red sky in the morning-sailors take warning..." we have rain coming.   As a result I will be drying the family clothes in the drier today.  Yesterday I managed to get 8 loads done on the clothes line which was astonishing to my kids.  LOL

We do pay attention to the weather here in our home.  We've done hurricane studies in the past and kept close eyes on those huge storms that would threaten to cover our loved ones.  Now, even though we still somewhat watch hurricanes, the more intriguing part for my oldest son is to watch for rotation.  He is checking the weather on his own most of the time and watching for how systems move and grow or disipate before they get to us.  Why rely on a TV weatherman/woman when you can research it on the computer?  Here are a couple sites we use~
Unisys
Wunderground
Weather.com
Intellicast

All of these sites allow you to see the storms and so forth in a storm tracker fashion.  Weather.com has a neat feature where you can see the track the storm will take just by clicking the "future" button.  Since the weather can take turns that the weather people don't know about, it helps to know where you can find it yourself to see if your plans need to change. 

Speaking of plans, we had intended to go blueberry picking today, but with the weather coming we'll have to change it to tomorrow instead.  We only have until the end of this month and the first week of September to get the blueberries picked.   The patch is in the national forest and located inside a primitive campground.  It closes on Labor Day, so we need to get what we can now.  I like going on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Many campers go to pick on the weekend, so whatever isn't ripe then...by their picking...is ripe on Tuesday.  That's the same for Thursday as well. 

The blueberries are the size of grapes!  This is much of the reason we go picking up there.  It's about a half an hour from our house, but that's ok.  We enjoy picking out in the woods and walking the trail to get there.

This is the blueberry patch.  It's a half an acre of purposely planted blueberries.  It's been there since the national forest service planted it in 1990.  What a blessing!  An even greater blessing is that they do not spray these bushes with pesticides or use chemicals on them.  They're thriving and growing naturally organically and look at how well they are doing!

Well, it's time to get moving on more laundry, get my children up and get chores done.  Today starts day #1 with switched chores.   More on that later. 

Have a wonderful day!

Blessings,