I agree with the above. While day temps are rising, soil temps are still low - and beans need high soil temps to germinate quickly. They are notoriously vulnerable to rot when planted in cool soil. There's nothing wrong with trying to get them in early... as long as you have enough seed to replant later if they fail. Even if only a few plants survive, they will give you a jump on the season. If you want to rush the season in the future, consider planting varieties with good cool-soil tolerance. Since you were already growing a pole, I would recommend "Emerite" and "Fortex".

Tell ya what, Linda. Y'all bring the fixings for Chef Shantz's version, and I'll happily supply all the Champagne you can drink. I know you can afford it, what with all those big catering jobs. So, let's see.....there will be you and yours (2) and Carol and hers (2) and me and Friend Wife (2). Ruthanna and hers have to come, because it was her suggestion (2). And I've promised Annie a great dinner. I'm sure she'll bring her daughter---or, if not, one of those cabana boys. So that's another (2). Wow! What a party it's going to be. And all I need supply is Champagne for ten. ;>)

That recipe has a lot of eggs compared to other recipes. Mine is cooling in the oven right this minute. I've made pumpkin cheesecake the past two Thanksgivings but today I made sweet potato cheesecake because someone asked if we'd ever heard of it. Since I prefer sweet potato pie over pumpkin pie, I thought I'd give it a try. One tip I read for using canned pumpkin is to remove as much of the water as possible because you don't want water in cheesecake. Spread the pumpkin on a stack of paper towels and change them often as they absorb the water. I use a 6 x 3 cheesecake pan since there's just two of us and I want a tall cheesecake. I make half of Dorie Greenspan's cheesecake recipe and add 1/2 cup of pumpkin (or sweet potato) and spices. I use half sour cream and half heavy cream to ramp up the creaminess. For pumpkin cheesecake, I replace some of the sugar with light brown sugar. I'm not a fan of graham cracker crust so I made gingersnaps and made my crust with them. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015672-tall-and-creamy-cheesecake 

Well, I found out this morning that Comcast had a major hack a couple MONTHS ago, over 30 million accounts affected. I read it on a site, Comcast never notified customers, which in my book makes it even more egregious. I wondered what was up with the password change stuff going on last month, of course phone rep didn't say a thing. So that's probably what's causing all the spam. And who knows what else. It's like a full-time job keeping up with one's information anymore, it seems every day some major company is hacked. I put a fraud alert on my accounts because of the recent health care system breach -- a few large healthcare systems got hacked this past summer in SE Michigan. Is the convenience of technology worth it? Call me a dinosaur, call me what you will, I don't care -- I grew up in the days before the internet and IMO no, it's not worth it. I'd gladly go back to snail mail and {gasp} waiting a week or two for something, and if somebody stole your purse yea you'd worry about losing maybe a couple hundred bucks and your credit cards, but we didn't worry about identify theft and all that for the most part. (I'm sure it happened but probably only rarely, now it's just so commonplace). We had problems, sure, but I'll take those low-tech problems any day over all this mess that's been created. "Seriously, take action and get a new gmail address." Yes, I definitely have to do that don't I, especially in light of the breach.