i have 5 acres .. 500 feet square ... with a 8 foot deep valley across the middle .. east to west .. you wouldnt think that would matter .... but it does .... i can have heavy frost in the bottom ... light frost on top ... and no impact on the decline ... probalby due to cold air moving to the low spot ... in other words.. i have 3 micro climates on the parcel ... such could not be addressed by some gizmo based thingee ... lots of technical terms there.. lol ... especially when the nearest weather station if 5 miles away ... in essence.. you are playing the zone pushing game ... it has cost me a lot of money and plants over the years ... thinking i could outwit ma nature... its part of the game.. we all want what we cant grow ... you should be able to beat one zone.. in the city .. by proper placement within your garden ... e.g. against the house is usually warmer at night ... the side of the house out of prevailing winds that bring in cold air at night ... under larger evergreen plants.. etc .. at some point this game involves putting down the gizmo.. and turning those thumbs green ... thru experimenting .. and no gizmo based alert is going to make your thumbs green ... i dont think you told us what the plant is ... and most of us dont do CA or z10 ... but we would like to help if we can ... as you were private ... ken

I do too. I enjoy the blast from the past with many names I remember being active on the forum. Sometimes the posts are valid with true updates or the same issue being discussed . This last one was mostly legit and interesting but the final post I saw was some super duper word salad. Entertaining at least, I think?

We signed up for this service a few days ago and it's working perfectly so far. Our first notice sent 2 early morning pics of 1 ele bill and 1 junk mail, both arrived later in the day as predicted. The next day there was no notice and we got no mail. This will help because our mailbox is on the street and the carrier will always stop his truck at the box but I cannot tell if he put anything in the box due to my viewing angle. Sometimes I go to the mailbox after he stops but it's empty, from now on I'll depend upon the sent pics (or none) to save me a trip to the mailbox.

Sometimes my little notification BELL shows one or 2 - or shows nothing at all - but when I hover over it there are many more unread responses on various threads I've commented on. Very inconsistent so not worth counting on. The wackadoo message notifications seem to have subsided and it may be because I deleted all messages over a year old. There were literally hundreds from back when we all were thinking about migrating to another host and I collected emails to let people know. There is not batch delete option here at Houzz so I had to go through them one at a time to delete. Took some time.