An ASATGCBW lesson. I grow in Maine, where frost in the ground can be deep and last a long time. One of the crops I grow is sunchokes, and for a variety of reasons, I harvest them in spring. A few years ago, I made arrangements with a chef in Philadelphia to provide 100 lbs of sunchokes for a special dinner he was doing in April. I wasn't worried about the quantity - I grow several times that amount in a 30' x 75' bed - but the weather was a concern. We had been through a colder than average winter with a good amount of snow cover, but based on previous experience, I knew it was likely that I would spend a few hours digging in cold mud, another hour or two with a high-pressure sprayer cleaning them off, and then a trip to the FedEx counter at the local municipal airport. Well, as you've already guessed, things didn't quite work out that way. I spent the first few hours of my day shoveling snow off the beds. Then, several more hours with a pick-axe breaking out huge icy clods, which I loaded on a toboggan and moved into my house to thaw. It commenced snowing, again. Several more hours kneeling by the bathtub, prying frozen knobby tubers from the grip of frozen clay. A harrowing drive on snowy roads, trying to get to the airport in time. Back home, still snowing, to remove the trap from under the bathtub to get all the crap out of the drain. A call from the chef - the flight was delayed, so he would have to do all the prep on the same day as the meal, and he wanted reassurance that they would need minimal cleaning. I got the crop delivered. It wasn't a lot of money, but it put my product in one of the 17 true 5-star restaurants in the US. The date, according to my calender and records, was within range of when the ground could be worked - and it turned out it could - but it was a lot more work than I had planned on - including bringing all that mud back out to the garden the next day, picked clean of sunchokes.

Your palm indicates you have money Your plants indicate what you spend the money on The reason why they move away from the bright window is to chase the heat and light reflecting back off the walls The money line on your other palm ( the one I cant even see) indicates that the use of a crystal ball is needed when glanced into it shows you may have a sun roof window in your future. Knowing that crystal balls are sometimes uncertain one thing is: Even if the pics aren't clear I can tell from your one dimly light palm the only advice I can offer is don't play poker for money

Excellent news on all fronts Donna! You must be living right. Congrats! Cathy

Okay Jessy that one had me LOL. I especially liked the dog providing the romantic background. I had a cat with kidney troubles who liked to sleep on top of the stack of clean dinner plates. She also peed on a whole bag of stuff, including 2 bike helmets. We replaced them. Who knows what cat pee does to the safety of a helmet. -Robin