WellCayugad,youcan certainly grow one in a fairly large pot (5 gallons or so) outdoorsduring the summer and bring it indoorsfor thewinter. It would probably go dormant indoors. The container would limit it's size to four or five feet and it wouldnot likely every produce fruit - but I find the plant itself attractive. Also, you would need to keep the soil moist.As for your yard, you may as well try growing a money tree. I can ship you a sprout (banana - not money )if you want to give it a try.

Semisane.. I will pass on the offer. I do NOT have a green thumb when it comes to house plants. In fact I am kind of the family joke. My gardens are always over producing, but I can kill a simple fern if someone give me one. My sister gave me a house warming plant. It a plastic one. And I have not managed to kill that yet.

In a blind I found a small carpet rement does wonders to insulate your feet from the cold ground.

I love woolrich outer wear but have found Columbia coats are great for sitting but noisy fortrying to still hunt. I go back to the woolrich for that.

Al

Speaking of cold snowy weather....

My muzzleloader season was a complete disaster. We made it out to the one mile two track that leads to our camp and got stuck about 500-600 yards down the trail at around 1am. I spent the night digging till about 6am in 17 degree weather. There was about 20 in of snow on the ground and we never should have gone down that trail but we did because it was hunting season. We called some tow companies but they wanted between $500 and $1000 to come get us out.

Luckily a friend of ours that is local came to get us in the morning. After sleeping in the truck for about two hours I had to go back to digging again. The truck that came to get us got stuck a few times so we had to dig it out too. We ended up out of the woods around 1pm the next day.

Never even made it to camp and never got the smoke pole out of the case. Did I mention that I had the flu through all this. Still have the flu.

It wasn't a good time.

Tom

Statjunk - I don't mean to sit here and snicker but... There is nothing worse then getting stuck in the middle of the woods on a cold night. Been there, done that myself,and got the T shirt.. I have a crazy friend that somehow is under the impression that 4 wheel drive means it can go anywhere. And he's the King of off road driving.

He's got him and I into some of the mostawful back in the middle of no where places, stuck. I refused to go on his rides anymore, as it was about certain we'd get stuck. Being a logger, he owned a skidder so we'd walk out sooner or later,and come back with the skidder, hook on to it and get him self out. One way or anothers. Those were some very memory making and interesting event in my life.

Sounds like you got a good snow there. We got only about 12 inches last night so it was not as bad as they were claiming it could be. And its only -7º below this morning. But we are expected to get up to two degrees. So bring on the heat. I think I will wait a while before I go and shovel out.

Its a shame you could not have got out and hunted. Although with the flu.. I think you're better off in a warm dry house, in a nice warmbed, reading a good book, and sipping hot tea.

Cayugad,

I learned something really cool while stuck. When the guy came to get us he was able to get himself unstuck with a hand winch. He had this real big 2500 chevy. He strapped the wire from the hand winch around a real small oak like maybe 1.5" in diameter and that was enough to get himself out. My buddy and I were like damn were getting one of those.

Yeah instead of in bed I'm at work being incredibly unproductive as you can see! LOL.

Tom

I have a monster "come a long" (which is what we call a hand winch) with a double pully system on it. It is manual, not electric which is just as good because the battery would probably be dead when I needed it. I've hooked that up and actually pulled cars out of ditches. They are real handy to have in snow country. Mine is behind the seat in my old Ford.

I carry tire chains for all four wheels and have plowed drifts so deep the snow coming over the hood stopped the windsheild wipers. I also carry a short D handle flat shovel, 2 ton comealong (from TSC) and a couple of 15' 3/8 logging chains in the winter. Normally I stay out of the woods when it is like that with my truck. Thats what the snowmobiles are for. Wouldn't even think of taking my atv out in that.

Still Muzzle loader hunting here. Yesterday I'm not sure if ya could have hit a target 5 feet away with the wind gust going up to 55 MPH.
Saw 7 laying on a north faceing hill out of the wind while running the dogs.
11 more were in the pines along side the front yard

untill a rabbit took two of the dogs in there.



Al

WOW!! that's a beautiful picture there Alleyyooper.



this was that snow storm that hit us the other day. I was surprised that the camera could not pick up better detail of thesnow coming down. But I plowed out last night after the storm stopped then ran and hid in the house because it was COLD!! I guess I am not used to the cold like I thought yet. Last night got to -19ºbut there was no wind... So they are talking a high of 0º today that will feel like a heat wave.

Dag gum,

It makes me feel so small to run for cover and it's only 13 degrees! Man 20 below. Only experienced that a couple of times.

Tom