According to the farmers almanac for my part of Florida, the winters over this coming week, last frost being iirc the 19th of this month. Jalapenos, habaneros (orange, chocolate, red savina, ad white), Long red thin cayenne, datil, tabasco, thai hot, scotch bonnets, bhut jolokia, naga morich, naga dorset, trindad scorpion, anaheim, and possibly a few others... I found a pepper site that sends you free seeds for advertising for them, and received much of my seeds this year from that source. They are also Florida based. I've got several acres of land to plant these on... however I'm thinking of planting them all relatively close together, and allowing them to cross polinate (then saving the seeds). Just for the fun of seeing what I end up with. Surprise, it looks like a jalapeno, but with the heat of a ButchT Trinidad Scorpion. lol Or will I grow to regret that in the long run?

Unfortunately I have no idea what their plan was. I felt bad because my communication was clearly not getting through, which is why it took so long to get even those basics across. This suddenly reminds me of a story I heard years ago, probably an urban legend, but here it is. A newly arrived immigrant family goes to the grocery store and ends up buying a can of crisco, fully expecting it to contain fried chicken parts as pictured on the label! I don't know if they realized the turkeys were plentiful because of thanksgiving or if they just thought that this was a regularly stocked item. I figured at the time that they were trying to get into the American spirit of things but looking back, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd only been in the country a few days and had no idea about Thanksgiving! I just have to keep telling myself that if they were brave enough to buy it, then they would be able to figure out if it was done after three hours or not.

I found the giblets in a bag stuffed in the neck cavity. In the body cavity, the neck was in the back, and in the front was a plastic bag of turkey gravy. When did they start doing that? I took off the plastic leg gripper. Was I supposed to leave that in? Left the pop-out button in, and when I basted after three hours, I filled the body cavity with the juice instead of just running it over the breast. I figure it will steam up into the breast from there. Bought a 21 pound bird 7 days ago, been defrosting in fridge since then, 7.5 days and still frozen inside. So adding another hour at least, from 400-350-350-400 original 4-hour plan to 400-350-350-365-400 5-hour plan, maybe longer.

NhBaskets, while I agree on not turning on the hood until it's fully installed, do check on the venting on not only your range hood but your bath vents too. At the outset, when I asked, I was told that our range hood would vent through the roof. ok. The day the HVAC guys finished the venting we noticed that our range hood venting pipe goes up into an attic space, turns a corner and is vented out into the CLOSED porch roof area. The part between the porch ceiling and the roof above it. This is totally wrong. The builder knows this, and it needs to be corrected before we move in, but there must be some mysterious timeline for correcting stuff like that. Meanwhile I keep checking it. I'm quite concerned that they don't connect our Vent-A-Hood and try to turn it on until the vent is properly installed through the roof. Also, we noticed that the bathroom vents went up into same porch roof space, or just up into attic area, and did not connect to anything, although the vent holes are cut into porch ceiling for those. Now a lot of those are hidden behind drywall. Honestly, I don't understand why they don't do it right the first time. And why they don't correct it right away if it wasn't done right. If they'd corrected it right away the roof flashing would have gone around the vent hole and we would be a lot more confident that we wouldn't eventually have a problem there. As it is now, the roof is finished, and cutting a hole is going to present all the problems it would as if it were a remodel. And we don't have problems with our builder, we love him and for the most part everything is going very very well. I have so much sympathy for you. I just can't imagine how stressful this would be with problems with the builder.