i wonder if the rain helped keep the temp just a little higher somehow? anyone know? i'm happy we got rain, regardless of its effect on the freeze. with this wind, the sheets will dry out today quickly. in fact, we'll have to recover some things the wind took off already. so far, a lot of it is staying on, though. haven't been out to see what, if anything is showing damage yet. don't worry about things being bowed over from covering; they recover pretty quickly from that unless the stems snap (or freeze). thanks to several posters for making me feel like i'm not the only one crazy enough to cover everything i can with all i got. i laugh, but i do feel silly. at the same time i really don't want to lose this year's fruit crop! the flowers i'd be sad, but the fruit, i'm really bummed about. last night got to 30 here, so that forecast was right on. the range i'm seeing forecast on reliable sources is 24- 27 for tonight. i sure hope it's on the 27 end.

Jay, So, are your cold nights close to ending or do you have a couple more weeks where freezing nights remain a possibility? It is much better here, thank you. The firefighters cleared from our big fire around midnight last night, I think. They kept trying to clear and kept finding "one more" fire to put out, but when they cleared at midnight, I switched the radio over to the "pager" feature and stopped listening. I am not leaving the house or garden today unless something is on fire on my road. I am going to plant today, period. Someone else will have to feed the firefighters if they are out today. I hope you get rain. I hope we do too. It OUGHT to rain hard and hail here tomorrow because I am planting tomato plants today and that always causes either a tornado, a hail storm or snow. That, of course, leaves me inside cringing and listening to hail pounding the roof and asking myself why I didn't wait another day or two until the threat of hail had passed. LOL Since snow seems remote at this point in time, we have to assume that the planting of somewhat tender tomato plants will only result in tornadoes, thunderstorms and hail for Love County this weekend. I hate whining about the lack of rain, but we have only had about 3.7" or so this year and we usually get a lot of our rain in March, April and May. March wasn't too bad, but April has been dry. Our pond has been dry forever, and some of the creeks have been dry for 3 years except for a few days in the spring/summer of 2007 when they carried some rain runoff away....but it didn't stay in the creeks....it ran down to the Red River. If it rains, I'll be deliriously happy. I just hope we get real rain and not thunderstorms that bring dry lightning strikes and high winds and little moisture. OK, I need to get off the computer and out to the garden now to play in the dirt. Dawn

Ah, you caught me. Yes, that is in fact Bruce. Spencers_Mom, NO, don't return it. It looks on "you"... really... seriously.

Back again with sore knees! LOL That little green carpet cleaning machine is going to be returned. I can do it easier with an old towel and my Folex, then just use my big machine at the end of our trips when we get home. The machine had to be filled three times just to do my small living area floor and it didn't even suck up enough dirty water to fill it a third of the way. Tells me that it is leaving too much moisture in the carpet! And I had to keep going over and over the area while being on my knees--might as well be doing it with a rag--it would be faster and no cleaning up afterwards! Oh well, you never know until you try it. Wow! Your craft super saturday sounds like lots of fun. I'll want to hear lots more about it. You sound like me, if there is a pattern I want to do, I don't care what season it is--for one thing I know that if I wait till the holiday, it probably won't get done! LOL Do you know about the website for locating TS? I'm on DH's computer right now so can't check my bookmarks, but I think it is www.thriftshopper.com. I'll double check for sure later. You can just enter in a zip code and a mile radius and it lists them all for you. We got a nice shower here and now the sun is out again. A groundhog or something similar came up from the little creek behind us and my older dog was going crazy wanting to get at it! He is so funny, was going in circles and jumping up to look out the window at it! Usually he will just sit at the screen door watching for cats. Crazy dog wouldn't know what to do if he ever got close to either one! LOL Watching for them keeps him entertained at least. Well, think I'll have a soft drink and then it will be time to start getting cleaned up to go to dinner tonight. I'll try to stop by again tomorrow. Luvs