My Shady Situation in the Pacific Northwest. Creating A Cold-Tolerant Indoor Garden. At this point in winter, I rarely interact with our garden except to peer at it wistfully from indoors. But now we have an intermediate space our sunroom that is nice and dry and usually a bit warmer than the outside temperature.

Politics philosophy and occasional weirdness. The LA Times has a piece. On the continuing controversy over the insanity defense. In Nevada, a young man who stabbed a friend without warning at a party and was acquitted by reason of insanity has been declared cured by his doctors after only ten months in a mental facility. Under Nevada law, he is now eligible for release. In North Carolina, a former state Supreme Court justice has.