Auteck, I've been warned against afternoon "watering" as opposed to light "misting". Which one are you doing? I will try to get some updated pictures for you. heelsfan, I just came back from columbia, SC which is only 4 hours drive from here and what a difference in climate. It has rained here twice in the last 2 months yet yesterday in SC I got thunderstormed on 8 times in one day. It was like a rain forest. That is the kind of humid coastal plain weather that puts that tropical swamp grasses into high gear and we haven't had that here and we don't normally even get that kind of weather until August. If you're having or have had that kind of hot humid weather with temps in the mid 90's and above then that really isn't what I'm having to contend with. I did see some tall fescue that actually looked like it was in excellent shape though.

While accumulating a list of closed/small/honey/rosin eye figs, I kept a list of cold hardy too (I apologize in not keeping a reference to whomever compiled the majority of this list originally): Cold Hardy Figs Brown Turkey (Texas Everbearing) Blue Celeste (all Celeste really) Brunswick Hardy Chicago Violet De Bordeaux (Negronne) medium eye, down to zone 5 Desert King Italian Honey (Lattarula) Peter's Honey Osborne Prolific (Neverella) Excel Texas Blue Giant Golden Celeste Black Mission [there are others but they require either hot summers or a summer greenhouse to sweeten] Alma - late ripening, honey fig, ugly fig, super flavor [female Allison X male Hamma Caprifig] Atreano Bayenfeige Violetta Biancheta Brogiotto Nero (Briogiotto Fiorentino) Capelas Dauphine Genovese Nero Hollier Isfahan LSU Purple Mademoiselle de deux Saisons Malta (Sugar Fig) Northland (Nordland Bergfeige) Paradiso Bianco Portuguese East Mountain Ronde de Bordeaux Sal's (Corleone) Skardu Dark Stela (honey fig) (aka Stella) Sultane Tena (Bifere) Ventura

I am sorry to revive an old thread, but I made this account specifically to clear up some of the misinformation you guys have going on here. I found this page through google and it was in the top ten results for "Eastern Kentucky Snake". And the type of information you guys got going up above this post CAN and WILL get people hurt or KILLED!! No offense, well, actually ALL OFENSE, wayne222 you are/were a fool who spreads misinformation about things you have no idea about! Stop being an arm chair expert. It is obvious to anyone who knows better that not only have you never lived in Eastern Kentucky, but you must not have ever been to or known someone from here either. If you had spent as much time in our vast natural wilderness like you say you have, then you would know better. Not only do we have a very very large poisonous snake population here in Eastern Kentucky, but it is a very serious problem. We may only have 4 types, sure. But there are so many of these types that living here you will deal with them regularly. There are three types of snakes you will see a lot of and those are yellow banded king snakes, not a threat of course as they kill and eat other poisonous snakes, then there is the PIT viper (yes PIT viper wayne222 named for the heat seeking pits on the front of their heads) and copper heads. The pit vipers in question are Eastern Diamondbacks. There are so many that the folks around here have different names for the different colors they come in. The people here know that if you go through the woods being loud and talking, stomping or whatever you will likely drive off any rattlers. BUT the copper heads DO NOT RUN!! They will try and blend themselves in and hide. That is why they are dangerous. If you get too close they are very very aggressive. A rattle snake will only run so far as well. If you get too close to where they are hiding BAM they may or may not rattle first. NEVER go into the woods without a stick and/or pistol. NEVER put your hands or step where you can't see. My step dad was digging for roots this year and didn't pay attention in a black cohosh patch. He was bit on the thumb by copper head and lost a sizable chunk of flesh from it. I am an avid gardener and raise a sizable garden every single year and I have been doing that since I was old enough to swing a hoe. I kill at least 10 rattlers/copperheads every year. Why do you guys think we have so many snake handling churches here? And let me tell you, there are A LOT of snake handling churches. Just this year alone, two of my dogs were snake bit in my own yard. One happened recently and looks like she might not pull through. I have already had a snake church come through and catch a hand full of snakes on my property, and I have killed my usual 10 or so. WE ARE OVER RUN!! WE NEED ST PATRICK!!! Let me tell you this. If my dog dies, you will be hearing about a new St Patrick movement right here in the good ol blue grass state.

Dahlia - I use satellite internet (WildBlue - through Dish Network) and it is OK. It was my only option other than dialup. Kids needed a faster connection due to online classes, so I upgraded to the mid level WildBlue package. Be prepared for a large up front fee (I went with WildBlue because it didn't have that large fee and free activation at the time - I am not sure about now) All satellite internet providers have a usage cap. It is called FAP or Fair Access Policy. It limits how much data you can upload or download. Hughes has a daily cap. WildBlue has a rolling 30 day cap. Once you hit your cap, the speed gets throttled back to basically dialup speed or lower. If it is just you and you are not a heavy user - you will never notice. You will NOT be able to stream video (Netflix, etc.) and you will not be able to do a lot of YouTube watching, etc. - but some. It is noticeably better than dialup - but it is 3X the cost for me. You will probably have to commit to a 2 year contract also. Make sure you know up front what you are getting.