There was one in a tree here on the island and they shot it, as in dead, because it was hunting season and they said the medicine in dart would make a person sick if they ate the meat from the bear. Now, I want you to know there were some pretty ticked off residents! Including me. Here is a link to the free reader for PC or Mac. Here is a link that might be useful: Free Download for player

Lynnie, is that you? I haven't checked in on this forum in ages. I changed my GW name at some point (and I may very well go back to Ms. Ann Thorpe). I think when I said the black tomatoes did better for me in cool conditions, I think I meant that when I was just growing tomatoes in my backyard, which is very near Lake Michigan (days and nights about the same chilly temperature seemingly until high summer), the black tomatoes seemed for some reason more willing to give me more fruit than the other colors I tried. Now that I grow my tomatoes in a community plot a couple miles west, I get more daytime heat and richer soil--and everything is more productive and better-tasting. I haven't grown Black Bear, but it sounds good. I'm not nuts about the taste of Black Zebra, but one of the years I grew it, it was insanely productive. And it is pretty. So pretty, it's a shame it usually goes into sauce.

Yes, It's a gamble for sure. I've had some success and many failures. Zone 9, maybe 9b and we've grown and bloomed Anthuriums red and white, mountain azaleas, grew arabica coffee plants to mature red beans before a frost and still have a nice Miracle Fruit bush and have a full pint of red fruit from it when recipes using them are developed.. Failures include but not limited to South American breadfruit grown to 7 feet before a lone 26*F one Winter, also lost a Cacao tree (chocolate) to a single cold morning another Winter. I love to try different plants that don't usually grow here, some don't make it, some do well and some, like the black pepper are in limbo, lacking some factor that's needed for production.

Agree with Patricia - keep your windows. You're not going to want to cut holes in your house for them later and you might really miss the light. Plus removing windows is going to affect the appearance of the house from the outside. I assume someone thought long and hard about the window placement so if you remove some you will be negatively affecting the appearance of the house. Personally I don't agree with having half of your windows one color and half another, but this is something you will have to decide for yourself. I also think the black window thing is a trend which will pass in ten years or less, but there will be people who will disagree with me on that. All I know is that white has been used for hundreds of years but black has been used only rarely on just certain styles of homes. You don't need to replace your windows very often, so whatever you do you will be living with it for a long time.