On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:30:52 CST, Hal wrote:

I feel sure you won't have a pond problem, but I hope it doesn't get
cold enough to damage the navel oranges in Florida. I look forward to
a few of those each year. We had a bit of frost this morning and I
hope it will burn off the lantana foliage so I can get the brush out
of the way a little easier. The liner died on my 1000 gallon pond, so
I'll be filling in the hole with dirt from under the lantana, when I
get around to it.

That's a bummer about the liner, but then, never having had one
myself, I'm sure I don't fully understand the loss. The last owner of
the property tried to grow oranges, and was sort of successful in that
the first winter there were two sort of orange-like things hanging off
a sapling. The sapling never produced any fruit while I was here, and
last year it finally gave up the ghost and expired. Farther south
there should be no problems. The whole industry (which used to be
centered around Ocala, so I've been told) has pretty much moved below
the freezing line.

Seems like the Pacific northwest is getting slammed pretty hard. A
regular hurricane is pretty grim, but they've been getting the
equivalent of a near-freezing hurricane. Winds, flooding, storm
surge, everything and cold temperatures too! At least we have our bad
weather in the summer.
--
Galen Hekhuis
Hell hath no fury like a bird in the hand