Yours are beautiful. I like the different ones, I have some pink and yellow/orange combos. When they open you have hope that spring is actually near. Carla

I took the drawers out with all the stuff in them. Wasn't hard. Took some of the heavier items out but overall was no big deal. Used the stick-to-itself Saran Wrap (thanks GW) to wrap the glides. Took like 30 mins.

azzalea - sorry abour your freezer. If you bought a new fridge I would be watching it carefully too. Our fridge started acting up at 1 1/2 years old - I went on to the model (Whirlpool) fridge problems site so kindly posted on That Home Site and everyone seemed to be having the same problem. Our previous fridge - a GE - lasted 8 years. We had to go with the Whirlpool due to space constraints. They are making fridges taller and wider and we needed a fridge that would fit under the cupboards. carol - When we go away for a week I unplug the fridge. Met a man in Italy who had a 1/12 year old top of the line GE - sitting on wood floors. You can guess what happened. jodi - Some Kenmore fridges are made by LG. LG had the problem with the light not going off when the fridge door was shut. You were lucky you didn't have a house fire. I almost purchased an LG (apparently the appliance owner had sold the same fridge to his "little old mother") - right. I found the info on That Home Site and I wasn't even looking for it. But there is a whole thread related to the problem and the Kenmore is mentioned - some people cancelled their orders. I check the specs and sure enough the type of light bulb in the fridge was the type that would not shut off and overheat. Then of course there are people who have 50 year old fridges sitting in their basements being used for beer/pop/extra food - that work perfectly. They may burn more energy, but I have to think that if you compared the cost of said extra energy with the likelihood of having to replace a fridge every 5 years (if you are lucky) that it might well work in your favour to keep the old fridge. Our Kenmore Elite Washer/Dryer front loaders lasted 8 years - and that was after repair of the Spin Cycle and the Dryer Drum - they both broke the same day with clothes in the washer. There are only the two of us and I hardly use the dryer. We live in a small bungalow and the compact front loaders are now being made 3 inches deeper so that was a problem for us - we needed room for the vent. That meant buying Bosch subcompacts. We live in Canada - Washer was close to $1,800 with taxes and dryer wasn't far behind. We could have purchased full sized Bosch units for 1/2 the price. The only other option was the compact LG - but it was condensor - and I won't buy a condensor in Canada - Europe yes, Canada, not a chance. Again we hardly using the dryer and I expect the repaired Whirlpool fridge to die at any moment. We paid by credit card so received the extra year warranty, but only the problems covered by the original warranty are covered by the credit card and the original 12 month warranty specifically excluded just about everything that could go wrong. Ours makes a loud rattling sound - apparently this is "normal". Many brands are made by Whirlpool - the stories on the fridge problems site are pretty bad. We did lose a significant amount of food - twice. Whirlpool excludes lost food from its warranty - and claiming it on our house insurance would have been less than our deductible and of course resulted in increased premiums.

Robert, I agree. I do have my greenhouse semi-stuffed with overwintering herbs, fruit trees and ornamentals, including two gigantic brugmansias, so that gives me something to play around with and might possibly keep me from starting seeds too early. However, give me a week of sunny, pretty weather (we have sunshine today, yay!) and I'll start getting the itch to plant something too early. It is good that Christmas is approaching. All the pre-Christmas preparations usually keep me too busy to start seeds early even if I'm dying to start seeds of something/anything. The week after Christmas is dangerous for me because the holiday is over, I have time on my hands and the seed-starting materials and seeds start showing up in local stores. It helps if that week is really cold as it allows me to talk myself out of starting aything too early. Kim, It might have been the squash thread. I don't remember but I'll look for it if I have time this afternoon. I do like High Mowing Seeds. Their quality is good and I like their commitment to growing organically, etc. I have a stack of catalogs already, and I know for sure I've gotten catalogs already from HPS, Wildseed Farms, Totally Tomatoes, Vermont Bean Seed Company, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, Pinetree Garden Seeds, Dixondale Farms (onions, leeks, shallots, etc.)....and there's probably others that I'm not thinking of at the moment. Most catalogs seem to arrive between Thanksgiving and Christmas nowadays. For a long time, the always arrived the week after Christmas. I had a few arrive extra early this year---HPS always sends the first one in late summer (maybe August or early Sept), and Dixondale Farms usually has theirs out sometime in early November. I think Pinetree has been earlier than Dixondale the last couple of years. Some companies only have websites now and have dropped their paper catalogs, and I don't know how they works for them as a business stategy. I tend to forget about the ones that don't send out a paper catalog. Johnny, Usually, Glenn Drowns has Crookneck Milo at Sand Hills Preservation Center, though he only has it in the years when he was able to raise enough to sell. When you grow your own seed (he also has some contract growers), your offerings depend on whatever crop successes you had the previous year). They didn't have any in 2015, and their website isn't updated for 2016 yet, but you might keep an eye on their webpage when it starts updating, which sometimes is in late December and sometimes in January. It is a home-owned and operated company, and is not their primary job, so things get updated in the winter as time allows. How in the world they manage to keep so many heirloom poultry and heirloom seed lines going in what is a side business is completely beyond me....they must not ever sleep. The next best option might be Seed Savers Exchange. I don't remember if I've seen it in the public catalog, but for some time it seems like they've had Vilgore Crookneck, which I think is listed under grains or sorghums in the member listings. I don't know if it is the same as the Crookneck Milo you're looking for. It is unlikely that either of the two sources I mentioned would have 50-lbs. available. Often, with these old heirloom grains, you're lucky to find any of it available at all and usually have to start small, grow your own and increase your own seed over the years. Bon, I wonder why the websites you were visiting weren't working properly? Maybe it has something to do with the timing---many haven't updated yet, but generally they offer what I am looking for every year, so I can order off of last year's listings (if they aren't sold out). The ones that update later than January tend to miss my business as I mostly order early or not at all. More seed catalogs arrived in today's mail, and usually when the paper catalogs arrive, the websites have been updated too. That's actually what got me started ordering the other day---the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed catalog arrived and I flipped through it for a while and then went to their website and ordered what I wanted. I knew I needed/wanted to order some True Black Brandywine seeds and it was easy after that to pick up a couple more tomato varieties, which actually made me sit still long enough to make my grow list. There wasn't any point to randomly ordering tomato varieties that sounded interesting unless I had my grow list already made and was committed to actually planting what I was going to order. Amy, I like all those and so many more. There's so many companies that I like that I couldn't possibly order from all of them every year, so I try to spread the business around. However, there's a few that I absolutely do order from every year, and high on that list is Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. If it was the only seed company I patronized, I'd still be a happy camper. They have a great selection every year and their varieties always do well for me here. Dawn