Lee, You're welcome. When you used the word 'panic', I wondered if I should be panicking too. I'm glad to hear the answer is no. : ) It is a great relief that the Euro is backing off a bit on the freezing temperatures. Let's hope that the chances of frost start dropping too. I hope you have a great visit with your parents, and I hope the weather behaves itself so y'all can have a good time together without having to run for shelter. I can handle frost. Freezes worry me, even with row cover, but mostly because all the trees, shrubs, perennials, etc. are emerged and leafed out and I cannot cover the whole yard. My hollies (old and well-established) suffered massive damage when we went to 28 degrees, and normally that wouldn't happen. However, we'd been having a lot of days in the mid-80s or warmer, and nights in the 50s-60s, and the hollies had lots of new growth that wasn't conditioned to sub-freezing temperatures. On the other hand, Johnson Grass growing outside my garden fence and attempting to creep into the garden froze back to the ground. Of course it isn't dead, but at least it has been set back for a while. For future reference, to find row cover and frost blanket fabric in large enough sizes to cover anything you can envision, you can visit the website of Agricultural Solutions. That's where I find my frost blanket. I bought it in 12' widths, but they have it available in many widths---some of which are so huge that they clearly are aimed at commercial farms. Most places have it in only more narrow widths. I like the 12' width because you can cover a row of fairly tall (well, fairly tall for early in the season) plants with it. If you buy a roll they have it folded in half on the roll, which helps keep the shipping charges lower since it is a box a little over 6' long instead of 12' long. The very first row cover fabric I bought around a decade ago was 6' wide which sounds good, but really isn't. I was using it on 4' wide beds, so I couldn't cover a whole bed with it once the plants were any taller than 11-12". I've discovered that with row cover, wider is better, particularly since I grow in raised beds that are mostly 4' wide and often I have some plants that are knee-high to waist-high by the time the last threat of frost has passed in the first week of May. If the strong storms the next few days don't pound our plants into the ground or carry them away with the wind, we all might get to begin the month of May with gardens that are in pretty good shape. I like the idea of cooler temperatures. The longer we stay cool in Spring, the better the cool-season crops will produce, and the better the fruit set on the tomato plants. I did look at my Accuweather forecast the last couple of days since it goes out farther than the NWS forecast on the Norman webpage and farther than our local TV forecast, and it showed my lowest low next week of 43. Today that's been raised to 45. I'm starting to feel a lot better about next week's weather, but that doesn't mean I will become complacent and stop watching the forecast. I'll be watching it like a hawk. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: One Source for Large Sizes of Row Cover This post was edited by okiedawn on Wed, Apr 23, 14 at 12:09

Good plan. I am a lot better at planning than following plans. Next year I want to grow more herbs.Build more raised beds. Put out more mulch and do a better job of keeping the weeds down. I also want to collect my shower water water in a barrel and use it in the garden. I can't be that dirty. I won.t use it on my carrots. I want to build a chichen coop and a pen also. If I had a few chickens to turn out it would help with the grasshoppers. This year was a lot better than the last few. I put out the nolo bait 3 times. I had a quite a few flowers this year. If they would just eat my grass I could love them.

I feel for you. We started around April with full demolition June 30. I had my kitchen usable by Thanksgiving. This week we have new hardwood floors finished. Full bathroom gutted but I am here to tell you it is really all worth it in the end. We too did an addition and knocked out the back wall of the kitchen to add a 30x16 foot addition. It added to existing bath and an upstairs laundry room. It all has surpassed my dreams. Taking a long time but so worth it in the end.

The phrase "river tubing" brought back a combined happy/painful college-days memory: The trip down an Ohio stream was twice as long as our "coordinator" calculated, and the sunburn was horrendous! So be sure to make your GS slather sunscreen on! (And does he know how jealous we are!!)