By LYNNE IRONS

There is not much to be said for this retirement-age body. I garden for other people all week and then try to do my own over the weekend. I wonder when I started the pathetic, one-step-at-a-time coming down to my breakfast? I do remember the day I last jumped off the back of the truck. I admit I’m a bit of a poor sport about dragging reading glasses around to figure out plant labels and seed catalogs. I don’t envision a particularly bright future for any of these behaviors. The good news is I do seem to enjoy things more.

There are a lot of planets visible tonight and through the weekend. Venus appears low in the southwestern sky after sunset. Mercury is underneath it. Mercury is in the zodiacal constellation Pisces, while Venus is in Taurus.

Temperature: Precip.

Day Max. Min. Inches.

Fº Fº

March 26 59 41 .27

March 27 40 29 .13

March 28 40 24 .00

March 29 49 39 .21

March 30 53 48 .77

March 31 55 42 1.09

April 1 51 43 Trace

Water temperature in Edgartown harbor: 51º F.

Pleiades are the seven sisters of the sky. Since they are together forever in the heavens, there is no place for sibling rivalry in their relationships. Let’s hope that they get along — eternity is a long time.

Spring at Sassafras