Rita Now heart droplets, each with all your names ~ :rose: Freezing drizzle isn't usually a problem here around Denver, but stay off the streets !!! Snow-free multi-car accidents galore! Thanks Kolleen — back at ya! Well today we hit 60 and tonight temps fall to 43 and keep going down throughout tomorrow with the f phase one as an icy mix and then the big one comes on Friday …. :popcorn I agree Dan - sunny day car accidents are more abundant here too! Course watching crazy drivers go down the road side ways as they hit their brakes on the ice is always an amazing show :mdrmdr: You'd think people would learn that they cannot drive on ice. I remember a few years ago when Al Roker tried to humiliate the folks in Atlanta for not being able to drive on 1/2 inch of sleet.......until the next year when NYC had the very same issue. He certainly alienated the folks here. Snow and ice are two very different things. Went to bed with the air-conditioner on and today it is winter. I've brought in all the plants and trees. All of our plants are tropical but I have quite a few of real, real exotic plants, like amazon rain forest tropicals. (I'm no botanist but no one ever told me I couldn't grow these so here I am with probably more than I can handle lol) Anyway, now that they are all inside, except for the huge pots, my house looks like a jungle and I'm not exaggerating one bit. I tried to spread them out in every room but that didn't help. The plants and trees that are in the ground, well I hope for the best Hahaha … I can just picture the inside of your home looking like a tropical forest with the amount of plants you brought in from the cold. When we used to vacation @ Myrtle Beach April/May … I would buy my fuchsia plants, etc. at their super Walmarts … they were only $5.00 each vs. paying the jacked up price of $12.00 - $15.00 in Vermont/upstate New York. So coming home we would stop overnight at a motel and use the luggage cart (to cart them all into our room @ the Hampton Inn). People in the lobby would do a double take with all the hanging plants we had to haul inside our room. It looked and smelled like the Garden of Eden. :whistle: Can you cover your smaller bushes/shrubs with old bed linens or blankets to keep them warm? Yes, I am doing that now. I have a sleeping bag for a stephanotis vine outside and I have some blankets and Christmas lights we will use for others. Fuchsias I love and especially Mike loves them but they won't grow here, it is waaay too humid and they get fungus NEVERTHELESS, year after year every spring Mike will buy a hanging basket and will be crushed when it dies. :groan Oh wow, I didn’t know too much humidity will kill them. Here I envied the southern states for having fuchsias all year. If I bring mine indoors for the winter they will die because of lack of sunshine for the next 6 months. The same with the red and pink mandevilla vine plants.
