Hazel, Hmm, I wonder if we googled if we'd find a circus tent company? Probably, but I doubt we could afford a circus tent, and I'm fairly sure my DH wouldn't like the idea of erecting a circus tent in our yard---he wouldn't like that idea at all. One year I put up one of those 10' x 10' folding canopies (like you use for shade while tailgating or camping or whatever) over my favorite plum tree and wrapped the whole thing in row cover fabric. My plums survived that freeze, but it was an incredible amount of work and my plum trees are too big now for that to even be a consideration. Really, in the year I did it, my tree was already too big and I had to do some pruning to make it fit, and I really wasn't happy about that either. Mike, That's a perfect comment about our weather----it is so, so true! I am familiar with how Fruitnut grows his fruit in his greenhouse way out there in west Texas, and if I had a greenhouse that size, I'd likely do the same. I think he is near El Paso? What he does is awesome and I admire how disciplined he is in maintaining his fruit tree size and such. For ordinary dirt gardeners like us, though, the occasional late freeze is always going to be a risk. Gardening is never going to be risk-free and is never going to provide guaranteed results. Kim, It works up to a point, but it just depends on how cold the weather is. You can protect fruit that way (sometimes, results are not guaranteed) and the professional orchardists/commercial growers often do. I think stone fruit is good down to 28 degrees for a limited time frame, but I don't remember if it is 1 hour or 2 or 4 or whatever. Hazel, I've done that before, with mixed results. Some years it worked, others it didn't. Likely the variability has to do with how cold the temperature dropped and how long it stayed that low. It rained here heavily a couple of weeks ago. It rained here yesterday. It is raining here right now and we're supposed to have rain on and off through 6 p.m. It is too bad all this rain couldn't wait and fall during the hours this weekend when the temperatures are in the danger range. I might run a sprinkler on Saturday night, or I might not. We're already so horribly wet that the idea of adding more water to the mix is not a very appealing one. It was bad enough when all the different varieties of stone fruit trees in our yard bloomed early, but then when the Mexican plums and Chickasaw plums bloomed early, I knew exactly what it meant----we were going to have a "late" freeze (which isn't really late, I doubt anyone in OK has hit their average last freeze date yet) that would kill, or at least threaten to kill, all the fruit. It has happened every time the native fruits have bloomed early since we moved here, except for one year. Our forecast has deteriorated, and since it updates frequently, who knows what we will end up with, but currently my forecast overnight lows are 38 for tonight, 32 for Sat, and 35 for Sunday. If I get a chance in between thunderstorms, I'll cover up the two tomato beds today and likely just leave them covered all weekend. If our temperatures don't drop lower than forecast, the fruit trees should be fine, but then our temperatures almost always drop lower than forecast at this time of the year, so I won't be surprised if that happens. If we're going to hit 32 here, then surely some parts of northern OK must be going to drop well into the 20s. Dawn

"... the running joke about her inability to curse in the Good Place was wearing thin." One preview that was aired about 1,000 times too many was when Kristen Bell's character tosses a disposable coffee cup towards a trash can but misses. Some guy asks, "Are you going to pick that up?" Kristen's character replies, "Are you going to eat my farts?" I have no idea if that's part of the inability-to-curse thing or not, but that alone was enough for me to conclude, "Nope. Not going to watch that one."

I thought sure we were going to see Jack die. They kept teasing us every time someone from the show was interviewed they would insinuate it was going to be the finale. I was very disappointed in the last show it was definitely my least favorite. I think she was very unfair to him because he has worked his rear off providing for that large family and allowing her to stay home and be the mom she wanted to be. Now she tells him she is unfulfilled! And it's his fault. Wrong. He is an excellent father and husband. The new drinking thing they suddenly threw in there is not a fit for his character.

i knew John Legend was a singer but couldn't tell you the title of a single song he sings. he has a really great voice! was kinda thinking i was gonna ve disappointed - ya know, nothing compares to original - but was so WRONG! was probably only about a minute into the overture when i was cranking up the volume... had to remember to turn it back DOWN when performance was over. no commercials would have made it great, but ya know how that goes. i also pretty much knew/remembered all the words, too!