Mike, had to laugh, we are all complaining about the cold here and whining because it is only in the 70's next week. Josephs nursery in Pearland has an excellent collection of fruit trees, they had several varieties of mangos when we were there a couple of weeks ago. I bought a lychee from them last year. They also have some awesome adeniums-picked up a double red thai hybrid for $12. Let me dig through some old emails, I have an address for a guy in North Houston who has about 200 different plumeria for sale including some fairly rare ones & thai hybrids, not sure of his prices. Emerson I think is still in Florida, he usually comes home in April. Larry has his ad on Craigslist and he has a decent variety and wonderful prices (4 foot multi branched kimo I paid him $20 for). No telling what he has, he's as bad as us at swapping and trading. I haven't heard from Becky in LaMarque, I'll shoot her an e-mail, she has wonderful plants and one of her mothers cultivars that is to die for. Maas is supposed to be getting plumeria but they had none this past weekend except a few left from last year back in the greenhouse. They can be very pricey. None of the nurseries in the Heights has plumeria yet, Buchanans last newsletter said "coming soon". Houston Garden Centers has mangoes but I didn't look to see what types, I am super allergic and avoid them, even the sap on my skin causes my throat to swell. Have fun while you are down here. Everything is blooming so the pollen counts are through the roof. Tally HO!

Not much moisture and frozen blossoms! Sorry to hear that, David! Was wondering if you got much out your way, Jali! Glad it was at least measurable! I've saved links to CoCoRaHS before, but I've always had trouble finding real specific info because you can't "zoom in" on the map I had found and there weren't enough roads marked for me to be sure which "station" was closest to me--and on the list of "stations" there's no real info about exactly where they are! This time, however, I clicked on enough links that I got to THIS map, where you can zoom in all the way and then click on the individual stations to get detailed info. I love it! I'm not sure if it'll link to the Colorado map like I have it set now, or if it'll go to the US map, but it covers the whole US and Canada and you can go to whatever state you want to get precip totals. This is the one I'll be using from now on! It looks like I got about the same as you, Jali, about .29", but just west of me there are reports of up to .55". I think maybe I was somewhere between those two--based on nothing scientific whatsoever, but just on how long it was raining/snowing, even if it was slow most of the time. I estimate close to 2" of "visible" snow on the grass, but it's really hard to know how much it was because it was melting so much in the beginning, and then started to actually rain again after the first snow! I got a self-emptying wireless remote rain gauge last fall, and I am (not very) patiently waiting to put it out in the yard! It says to not use it in freezing weather! A few more weeks and I'll know for sure what I get here--and won't need to run out into the yard in the rain to see how much I've gotten! Sure wish I had had it during The Floods last fall! Still hoping to get a real weather station some day! The yard is looking green and happy--which makes me happy too! Skybird Here is a link that might be useful: Interactive CoCoRaHS Precip Map

I'm packed; and I'm bringing Harry. He would love an island vacation! I'm a special needs person, so I must have my own cabana boy, and sorry ladies, but Officer Andy will be dining with me every evening. You can have him the rest of the day! LOL So as not to sound self-centered, I'll arrange to have a jet ski delivered for every person attending the escape! An especially fit and handsome instructor will accompany each jet-ski.

"IMO, the producers should have been treating those people for infections long before this event." Ah, but they were! If you read Dalton Ross's Q&A with Jeff Probst, you'll see that medical has been assessing each contestant daily. And when the boat with Jeff and the doctor arrived at the camp, it had already been determined that Neal would be pulled from the game.