Thanks for the kind feedback. Naturegirl: These are most of the harvests. Some of the lighter harvests go unphotographed, but I try very hard to celebrate each and every one. eaglesgarden: Last year I committed to some over-wintering and had some great results. I am just not setup for it this go round. But I do recall some lettuces and the broccoli had incredible resilience to the cold. In the spring, I had giant Arugula plants, and when they bolted, they turned into incredible lady bug magnets. I have plans to make an aggressive run on spring...it is mere weeks until I plant tomato seeds. And, I'll start eyeing where I'll plant turnips, carrots, and lettuce very soon. The gardening never really stops here. I have not checked out the book yet on four season harvests. Maybe I will have to drop a hint to Santa. He seemed to really like the BLTs with Cherokee tomatoes this year, so I don't think it will be a problem. I only needed a 26 x 28 foot space to grow what you see, and was able to get 226 pounds out of it. I use to think I needed more space, but not anymore. I do not use raised beds, I form fixed ground level rows which are bed like. And I inter-plant and succession plant every square inch, and I take advantage of vertical space. Some things allude me - I still have not managed to outsmart the Squash Vine Borer, even with injecting Bt. This year I will be super early - the Master gardeners I know here say it is about the only way. I find time spent in the garden, and even all the arm-chair gardening, to be time well spent. I thank you all again. The community here has been incredible.

Most amusing. I cannot stop cackling, guffawing, and just plain LMO! Awesome dude. "Somewhere in New Mexico, fairly early in the day, a large crow tried to stare us down as we crossed a bridge. We'll never know if this was a suicide or failed attempt at a crow-jacking, but the end result was the same: a punched in grill on Jon's car and a raven that will quoth nevermore." "Gordo has 2 volumes: Loud and Drunk Loud" "'Why do you guys slap the buoys?' The answer is 'Because I can . . and you can't.'" "After an hour or so, with civilization right across the ICW, Gordo could take it no more. He sailed across to a bait shop for beer. As he was beating his way slowly back across, it looked like he was going to get mauled by a barge. I figured I'd better get photographic evidence so his wife and three kids could live like kings on the settlement. But he popped out safe and sound as the barge went by. No settlements for anyone (I was hoping for pain and suffering for having witnessed it.)" "That evening, we stopped in Purcell, OK for fuel and decided we'd get something to eat. I asked the lady standing in line ahead of me 'Where's a good place to eat?' and she started telling me about how she had 'never tasted ketchup or mustard. Never eaten lasagna or spaghetti or tasted a tomato. Never tasted beer or whiskey.' I offered her a snort from the bottle in the back of the car - she refused. It turned out, she lives on Mac-n-Cheese. How in the hell did I find the least qualified restaurant patron in all Oklahoma?"

I loved it, in part, because of the resourcefulness of inventing ways to get things done. I'm old enough that I keep looking for ways to do things with less pain and fatigue. Hence my call for useful tools. A friend who was a PT and a gardener said something I've not forgotten, despite being relatively young when I hear it. The gist was' it doesn't matter if you have to garden on your stomach, just keep gardening.'

Will they get daily use? I do not have this particular chair but I have sat in the original Jeannerett 055, and I feel like the front edge is sort of a hard corner. So I don't know that they are the kind of sit and relax sort of chair. Also I have some concerns about caning. The originals were designed for a public building, but a public building 70 years ago in India, and people were not as big and heavy then. So part of it will depend upon how easy or hard you are on things relatively. (I have two Victorian cane seat and gilt ballroom chairs and honestly anybody who weighed over about 75 pounds would crush them, so I am not trying to be smart about heavy people, but people are bigger now on average). I also notice the one even in the catalog photo has loss of finish at the bottom of one leg, so I wonder about finish durability.