. As for not subscribing to this newsgroup, there's not a hell of a lot of
reasons for some of us to "keep up their membership" from October thru April.
You know, the ones in Zone 5 and lower

Don't you have any houseplants? Just skiing?

Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much
that ain't so."
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885