Let's be the one!

I CANNOT tolerate the caffeine in coffee; it makes me ravenously hungry, shaky, nervous, and stupid. I do enjoy decaf. I require many cups of strong, caffeinated tea with milk a day. What's that? My teeth are stained green? I CAN'T HEAR YOU, YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP! (hummmmming)

I remember the first time I was introduced to French Roast coffee - struck me as smelling and tasting EXACTLY like burnt potatoes. What can I say? - just got plebian tastes, I guess.

I'm right there with you, Michaela, on the French Roast, AND I just got over a bad cold.

How long did your recovery take? I really don't want to miss the RU

Have you tried the French Fried?

hhmmm. Maybe I'm ravenous, shakey and stupid because of coffee too. Not that I plan to stop drinking it but its a good rationale!

French Fried coffee???? yuck.

you guys crack me up

I tried French roast and burned my tongue.

Michaela,

I got home from 30 hours of travel, most of it in planes or airports, at 5 am Sunday. By the time I was alive, Sunday night, I was OK, but Monday morning I woke up feeling wretched. Was really sick Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday I felt pretty okay, Friday I felt back to normal. I'm sure you'll be fine by the Round Up... which I can't go to!!!!!!!!!

xx, Carrie

Well, we will have future RU. I am grateful for your information - this is day two of feeling lousy. So, probably by mid-week I should feel great. The weather is terrific and I wish I could do more in the garden this week.

Just found out that a 1988 publication stated that the last average day of frost in Springfield (based on the previous 30 years of data) was April 29 and the average first day of frost was Sept. 29.

I wonder what it is now, given recent updates of the garden zones.

There's a website somewhere which gives avg. first frosts - I just don't know where. At least you're posting. Michaela! You can't be too sick!

I think the temperature/frost changes would be very minor.

Isn't there a difference between 'a frost', and a 'killing frost'?

I've answered that one before. A frost is what a new husband encounters within a few months after the wedding. A killing frost is what he gets the first time he forgets an important day, like the anniversary.

A frost is freezing or lower. A killing frost is a longer period at a temperature significantly below freezing - say 27 or 28. That will do in tender plants where a simple frost probably will not.

Hee Hee I like that one, Victor

Victor:

I love that reprise of your 'frosty' definitions. And, thank you for taking the time, too, to seriously tell me the difference.