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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

No Frost Yet

I am amazed by this. There have been threats all around us and a little ice on the cars a couple of times, but still no freeze. I am in no rush...personally... Fall colors so far are subdued, with a few brilliant reds and oranges here and there like flags at a rally. Mostly the hills are a dark, dark green rarely seen around here. I wonder what the 'Dacks look like. If anybody can get away to get Beck, maybe we will find out.

We are having a dilemma about the sago palms, of which I am quite fond. A small animal vet we use in dire situations sent around an email telling us that ingesting the leaves is fatal and incurable for pets. Therefore they aren't something we want to have accessible.
Meanwhile I like them.

No pets visit our bedroom...the door is always closed and only the cat can get upstairs anyhow. Gael is too lame to climb them. I want to bring them in and put them up there until they can go back on the sitting porch in the spring. No pets there either.

Alan wants to let them freeze and throw them away.

So they are still out there still, awaiting a decision or a hard frost, whichever comes first.....

6 comments:

lisa said...

What is a Sago Palm?

~ Sara ~ said...

IMHO If they are going to be in a place where your pets are never going to get at them and you've not had trouble in the past SAVE them. But then I love house plants... our house is just to cold to have them most of the time in winter.

Anonymous said...

i agree w/sara...if you can save them and keep the pets away...do it!

wish it would warm up!..i think i'm wishing too much lately..:(

joated said...

"Alan wants to let them freeze and throw them away." For one very brief moment I thought you were refering to the pets. LOL

As for the palms...bedroom, if there's space. The greenry might just make you want to get out of bed come February.

DayPhoto said...

We are having high winds with a freeze warning tonight! Once more early, early, early, the third week of October is our normal heavy frost date.

Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com

threecollie said...

Lisa, it is a very sharp-leaved pom-pom shaped sort of thing. I just kind of like them, but I had no idea they were poisonous to pets. Elvis used to scrape his face on them all the time.

Sara, Alan finally relented and brought them in last night.

Anon, they are in!

Joated, yeah, yeah, I wrote that really early in the morning. lol
He did bring them in so...

Linda, it is so early here for this weather too. Not frozen yet, but it is coming...and I am so not ready.