As a sidenote to this thread, my hometown newspaper has an article today on the 2012 USDA plant hardiness zone map. My county here in Indiana was formerly in zone 5B, which registers an average annual extreme minimum temperature of -10F. to -15F. As of last week, we've been upgraded slightly to zone 6A which is -5F. to -10F.
The paper goes on to state that even though the suggestion can be made that we are experiencing overall increases in our average temperatures, no conclusions should be drawn regarding climate change simply from this map....
I'm not saying I believe it, only that I think It may be time to dust off that old .222. I hear those armadillos are coming north......
