Yes, lol, warm weather has arrived. Been here for the last three to four weeks. Temps from 80 to 95F. It's not even summer yet! This weekend said to be 100! So this means summer temps to be around 110F. Most plants love it in the shade. Cactus can tolerate full sun. My problem is that I like to water them to cool them off. K

Karyn no I was sicker then a dog yesterday, but feel 100% better today. Thanks. And your first posting made me laugh a lot lol and laughter has a healing effect lol. Hubby learned his lesson and he buys my gifts these days...ha ha ha About Precious and her misery ....I was going to call and make a appointment yesterday...I think she can not be in heat when they spay her. If I remember correctly and from what I remember my vets always said they should have their 1st time before spaying them. Been a while since a had a baby kitten :-) But I do not breed and there are to many unwanted animals out there already. Karyn I know you were just kidding about the shooting ha ha ha had to read it again and it is just so funny lol Well got to get the garage empty for the guy who installs the openers today. Got the Ping Pong table still up. Man that was a lot of fun playing with the grandkids. Have not played since our kids were little. I do not know who played worse...the GK or I roflmao Eloise I have had so many years were I wrote x mas cards...but never got around to mail them out. My organizing skills just went away lol Thanks everyone for keeping our soldiers in your thoughts and prayers. I am so glad I am feeling better, that means I can go and take pictures of Caren's son coming home tomorrow :-) Hugs Lucy

Carol, So far this morning, we're down to 34 and were forecast to go to 40, which makes me wonder how cold we'll be this weekend on the night forecast to go down to 32. When I see those large, healthy tomato transplants in the stores here in March (and, this year, in February), my home-grown transplants always look so small by comparison. I sort of have a little moment of panic, something like "oh, my plants aren't ready yet!" and then I calm down and get a grip and remind myself they shouldn't be ready yet because it isn't planting time yet. By the time that the proper planting time arrives, my plants will be just the size they should be. It's the same thing when they have squash plants the size of my hand (which, for early March, isn't actually good since the ground is too cold for those plants) and my 'plants' are still seeds in the packets. I have about 2/3s of the tomato seedlings outside where they sit on the concrete patio and soak up sunlight all day and then go back onto their tables in the garage at night. On the days that they have full sun instead of cloudy skies they seem to make some good growth and have great color. They're not ready to go into the ground yet, though. For one thing, the wind would beat them to death right now. I strategically place them where buildings protect them from wind right now, but once they're in the ground, they are on their own. I do hope we have a nice, steady warming trend the rest of this month so the ground warms up earlier this year than last year, but I expect we still have another couple of cold fronts coming even after this weekend's cold front passes. I'm be happy even if our last cold weather is the Easter freeze as long as there's nothing else really cold after that. El Nino is slowly receding so we still have cooler and wetter than average conditions forecast through at least May, so it doesn't make any sense to me to rush the warm-season plantings along. Dawn

As a related note and short rant, it really annoys me when I see all these "senior" specialized places that are essentially a slab house, no basement and no safe room. Many places have a reinforced building where people can go during inclement weather but I think it should be required to have something. Back to topic, spring is showing around here. Nice, but I also really enjoyed this mild winter we're finishing.