Well Cayugad,

I can say with zero embarrassment that once it hits single digits temp regardless of wind chill it gets my attention. In single digits I'm good for about 1.5-2 hours in the blind and I'm done. I head out later and leave earlier this time of the year. I'm not even that old so I don't have any excuse.

Tom

Statjunk.. I hear you on the cold stuff. It's all a matter of dressing for it. My worst part was feet and hands. When they got cold, I got cold.[&:] So I purchased some Sorrel Dominator boots good to -100º and buy yourself a pair of compression socks at Wal Mart. Your feet will be toasty. They are not the best for walking but for stands, blinds, and ice fishing.. they are a must. For hands I have a hand warmer/fanny packand I put those hot packs in there. With good wool clothes, I can last out there in some nasty temperatures if I have to.

Semisane can now successfully sing "yes, we have no bananas"!! Hope that tree comes back for you.

Banana trees are like crazy relatives - they always seem to come back. Actually, if we get a "hard freeze" (28 degrees) all of those you see in the picturewill die, startgetting mushy, and collapse. The trunks are pretty muchlike a stalk of celery. Come March new sprouts willcome up from the roots and by June they will be 8ft. tall.

You guys definitelyhave too much time on your hands!!!

It's just the winter crazies rafsob. Pay no attention to the man behind the snow bank.

End of February I will be back in class getting assignments from Semi or Sabotloader. So I got time now in between hunting.

Semi.. you think one of them nanner trees would grow in my yard? When I was a kid my Dad grew one in the house, until it got too big and Ma got mad.. That was the end of the old man's nanner tree...

Cayugad, I kow you can grow one. My neighbor here in Ohio pulls his in the fall before frost, winter and spring then moves it onto the deck in summer heat. What you got to watch for inside is bugs it picked up outside. I grow a lime tree like that I bought in anairport. I have Never had limes though. I have had it growing for 6 years now. Started as a twig about 4 inches tall and now is about 4' high and spread about that much.

Buck Hunter.. that's a cool idea.

My Dad (when we were kids) had a pretty impressive tree in the house. Maybe it was the bugs that Ma finally screamed about. He used to drag that outside in the summer. I think we even got little bananas but I would not swear to it. Now he has these 8 foot tall corn plants growing all over his house..