Looks like it survived!
Two weeks ago this was covered in 20 inches of snow. The leaves are turning greener and new leaves have started in the middle.
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Ah ha ha, nice plant tag! Love it! Thanks for making my day.
If you have some of this nearby, or a place that sells it…
… mix up a gallon acc. to package directions in a watering can or an old plastic water bottle / squirt bottle and give it a good watering/squirting once a week morning or evening, but not while the plant is in full direct sun.
Seaweed’s very kind to plants–it is the one fertilizer that never burns them–and it will both improve the flavor of the food plant while providing a kind of first aid that all plants love. It’s better than Brawndo!
Thanks for posting. 
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Good heavens, were you taking a picture of our place two weeks ago? Because that’s pretty much exactly what we did while our power was down for 90+ hours.
We did end up using blueboard scraps on the north side, and then cardboard for all non-north-facing windows. And tarps. And mylar sheeting. Still was 40 degrees indoors.
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Hah! I actually [duck|duct]-taped all the cardboard i found in the recycling bin, then when that wasn’t enough to cover the doors added an old tarp to the top…
We’re running a stump grinder in the back yard and worried about rocks. It’s about 80° here.
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All I see is the kitty-cat 
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I don’t know where else to put this
ETA This style is called “giraffe stone” and is common in S. Missouri and N. Arkansas. Probably some in E Oklahoma, too
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The sisters and the hunter
In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas. He was forced to hold up the sky for eternity, and was therefore unable to protect his daughters. To save the sisters from being raped by the hunter Orion, Zeus transformed them into stars. But the story says one sister fell in love with a mortal and went into hiding, which is why we only see six stars.
Similar “lost Pleiad” stories are found in European, African, Asian, Indonesian, Native American and Aboriginal Australian cultures. Many cultures regard the cluster as having seven stars, but acknowledge only six are normally visible, and then have a story to explain why the seventh is invisible.
But if we take what we know about the movement of the stars and rewind 100,000 years, Pleione was further from Atlas and would have been easily visible to the naked eye. So 100,000 years ago, most people really would have seen seven stars in the cluster.
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Tucson this morning
This is in the foothills, where my parents live. At our house it was just (desperately needed) rain.
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Point-counterpoint!
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that doesn’t look like 30 to 50 feral hogs?
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Right? Not good
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That’s from the Chicago Sun Times. The Tribune disagrees:
My favorite column from Mike Royko (Chicago Daily News) nails it:
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Three to five, well…
We’d think that they’d moved off, and then I’d go outside to do something in the garage and stumble across them again. They have a good sense of smell, but not such good eyesight, so they’d come around a corner, see me, jump, and then they put up all the hair on their backs. Unfortunately I didn’t feel like whipping out my phone for pictures when they did it. They’re odd, usually if they do panic they’ll run, but there’s a modest chance that they’ll decide to fight instead, and instead of tusks they have huge fangs on the top and bottom of their jaws.
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