Whew. I hope it was worth the hassle of registering. LOL. I only did because there seems to be no information about dealing with frozen spuds. Most everyone simply recommends tossing them. I'm too cheap to do that without making some effort to salvage them. Anyhow. I have not found any good answer (online) to what to do with frozen potatoes however I learned how to deal with them on my own. Leave them frozen until you want to use them. Remove the number you wish to use and scrub them while frozen to ensure they are clean. Place them in the oven as you would a normal unfrozen potato, and bake as you would an unfrozen potato. One caveat here though and that is to be certain to place a cookie tin or some aluminum foil under the potatoes to negate having to clean the oven after because they will drip for the first while. If you have ever baked exposed potatoes in the oven (not wrapping in foil) you will not be able to determine any difference between these and them. My wife absolutely loves them done this way. Best of all we have been able to salvage and enjoy the entire bag that someone (oops) inadvertently stuck in the deep freeze.

bellegallica9a - I looked up both of those roses, and am intrigued - especially by "Miriam Wilkins". Of course the photos of that rose are all so very different from each other (especially the "light pink" color - most of the photos look very bright/dark pink to me), that I am dubious about what I would get if I ordered it. Melissa - SO very happy to hear that your gardener re-surfaced! That is wonderful - sounds like you can use all of the help you can get. Our gardeners (2 - a father and son) came yesterday, and tidied up many things in the garden which had either dead foliage from the Spring bloom (Iris Naked Ladies, and other bulbs), or hedges and trees which were growing out of control. So nice to see things neater - nothing seems to die around here, everything seems to just keep getting bigger and bigger... We have had a much cooler Spring and even Summer (highs in the high 70s F - unheard of for June , July & August here) than normal here, and only in the past week has it been in the mid 80s. Today is supposed to be 93F, so I suspect our normal temps for August have retuned. Oh, well, the tomatoes, and tea and china roses will love it. I hope you get your cast off and your arm is perfect, so you can start exercising it and get back into the garden soon! Jackie

Now I have that song stuck in my head. These are moodier and darker. I like the usage of light and dark spaces. They look crime- scene-ish. Which creates a bit of cognitive dissonance with the pop melody of Britney Spears wailing away in my head. Although if you follow that line from the song to the photos...hmm. It actually does work.

Fewer And Better People - Mark Mothersill