Thanks for the humor, Josh! Portland is a mirror image of northern TX! My sis and I have been exchanging photos. Kim's DFLED 3 which Christopher so carefully packed and sent seems to be coping. The poor little thing is hunkered down in my potted driveway nursery (last photo). I didn't have a chance to prepare any plants for the arctic blast. Fingers crossed! Carol

persnickety, Very funny! I think no one has responded because because it hits a little too close to home? Even with a GC?!? ;-) j.

Karen, thanks for the humor, enjoyed this. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. I hope you get your BOP decorated so you can add to Jeanne's post. This makes me wonder where my silver deer is I normally use in there.Sigh I dug out a few decorations this afternoon but...... Punk

Whuuuuuuuut?! Ammonia, slugs, and soil? Have not heard of this, please tell me the details. Right now my main slug control is a shallow bowl of PBR, or Milwaukee's finest, whatever is cheapest. My slugs are clearly Irish immigrants, because they do love the open bar. I have an area by an aralia that has been so slug infested the aralia growth was cut in half last year. This year I've caught probably to 200 slugs at that one spot (keep in mind that given my location, we just started slug season). My heart leaps for joy when I see the baby slugs, less than 1/4" long, heading for the bar, knowing they'll never lay eggs. That one spot alone keeps my butt in the air for a few minutes every morning. Tell me about the ammonia! By the way, given that it wasn't too many years ago that most of us tried to kill every insect we saw, and now we are trying to save every insect we can (except for maybe Japanese Beetles), I asked somebody from the botanical garden if one day I would regret killing slugs. She said no regrets, kill away. I have many many slugs in the woods around me, but this one garden area is just overloaded. This is from last year, and the dish had been on the ground less than three hours when this photo was taken.