No sprinklers aren't an option for me........the trees are located on various parts of the property, and it's not going to be a radiative frost, but just a deep low pressure with wind chill issues from gusts. We are on spring/irrigation well too and water is not looked upon as an infinite resource in a given time period. Some of the apple trees are quite large. I'd need to call our volunteer fire department. LOL. Under the right conditions, the fruit set may have little to no damage down to around 29F if it just dips for a short while, but the heat has blown open the blooms to their most susceptible stage. Also, if the freeze doesn't get them, the daytime highs might be low enough to deter pollinators for several days, right at the most crucial point. We also lost our bee colony from the hard, protracted winter. It was a warmish forty-something day in February, and I saw them out on wing. They shouldn't have been flying at that temperature. I knew then they were starving and had a long ways to go until anything was in bloom. That happened once before in a freakish warm spell in late winter. I had a g'house vented open and so many honeybees flew in to feast on the open blooms, and got caught as the temps plummeted, that I had to shovel their little bodies out the next morning. They would not exit the warmth of the g'house into the cold air as evening set in.....even though I left the vents open. A loss of several thousand bees isn't insignificant in itself. sigh.

Hi Lindie, I'm Tiffany. I visit gardenweb most days, but not always this particular forum. Just depends on my mood and time available. I'm in AL, just north of FL, moved here in 07 from OH and absolutely love it. Nobody is in a hurry, and there's something blooming all year. We often spend Saturdays or Sundays at the beach, or swimming in a nearby cold spring or spring-fed lake. We like camping, inviting tons of people over for a BBQ, exploring dirt roads to see what we can see, fishing, drive-in movies, canoeing, sitting around the fire - ours or somebody else's, kites... I've been to most states east of the Mississippi, Canada, Europe, but am also a homebody most of the time. I also like gardening (obviously,) cooking, cross-stitch and the gridded/geometric art associated with it, occasionally rearranging my seashell collection, reading about any type of fiction and non-fiction from areas of interest, driving my car on a beautiful day when time doesn't matter, watching the sun set, scrabble, and dancing if nobody is looking. I used to like skiing but there is no snow here, and hiking but am too afraid of encountering a poisonous snake to do that here. My daughter went to college this year, about an hour away, and I miss her but am glad she's doing well and having fun. I've met a very nice man here and am totally in love with him and his dog, and they moved in with my son and I earlier this year. He's smart, funny, fixes things, and does cool stuff like making a fire pit, bat house, tilling up a veggie patch, and mowing with the bag so the grass and leaves can go in the compost and on the beds. The fenced-in yard, central air, much bigger kitchen, and much more light from windows are why we decided on my house instead of his. There are a ton of lizards, skinks, squirrels, birds, and geckos that live here, an occasional armadillo, and various neighborhood cats and dogs that come to the yard to visit our dog. We've had a few hummingbirds and a ton of butterflies this year, they are always visiting the zinnias, lantana, basil, and plumbago. About a year before I met him, my oven quit working right - it would come on but not turn off when it reached the desired temp, it just kept getting hotter and hotter. Since I hardly ever used it, and 3 of the stove burners still worked, I didn't try to have it fixed or replaced. I was already much more of a toaster oven user, especially in the summer, when the thought of turning on anything that would create so much more heat is just unbearable! When he moved in here, his oven was one of the benefits (major or minor, depending on time of day and what I cooked for dinner - LOL!) It's just a basic one with coiled electric burners and it has a self-cleaning feature but hopefully that would never be needed. There's no dishwasher here, besides me, so it's rare that I would cook any meal without foil. And I've always lined my ovens with foil, and always put a sheet of it or a baking...

Yes, in my experience they've always had some pattern that was stamped with a resist. Formerly, they were small and unobtrusive -- more textural than figurative. Lately, they've been getting larger and more obvious -- nice for a feature fabric but tougher to get the watercolor effect with this style. The batiks on the front are the older style. The back was a great place to take advantage of the animal print. I like those colors too. I made that quilt for an African-American friend who had her first baby. Can you picture those colors and soft brown skin? They complemented one another wonderfully. ;> Anyway, keep looking for the right colors. Batiks are not only beautiful to look at, they're woven so finely they have a beautiful hand and I suspect they'll wear like iron too.

Mine didn't like the frozen ring. Not sure why. I remember thinking the edges were kinda sharp too. We had this thing that looked like strung beads. It was hard plastic beads on a cord in primary colors. Like a small necklace. I still see them with the baby things. When both boys were teething we could NOT go out with out it. They would shove that thing back in there and bite and rub, and drool! It and a firm rubber thing with bumps all over it were total lifesavers. Hang in there