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joe817 wrote:

Pawpaw wrote:I love me some fried okra, but it has to be done right so it doesn't "slime" ya.

Pickled okra is good too. All my grandkids know it as "fuzzy pickles".

Dad loved it. He tried to make me eat some a long time ago. Never again.

Cajun Chef Hot Pickled Okra is great in a New Orleans style Bloody Mary. I had one at the NOLA airport last year.

Pickled okra is the best. I can eat a whole jar in one setting. I go thru about 30 quarts of regular pickles a year though.

what in the heck kind of country do we live in now that this question has to even be pondered?

Pawpaw wrote: Why ask for trouble when none is warranted?

Bingo. And if they do knock on the door, offer them a tomato (or whatever you are legally growing in there). It may not apply in the digital world any longer, but there still IS a 4th Amendment, and if having a hothouse is suspicion enough for a search warrant, then so is a heated home, a heated car, etc., etc. A hothouse is not, in and of itself, enough reason for a search warrant. There has to be other factors involved, which collectively along with the hothouse rise to the level of meriting a warrant. The vast majority of us will never experience that level of examination, so long as we behave lawfully.

I'm not sure that things are that simple.

I live in an area where the lots are 1 acre or more. The neighbor across the street allowed their kids to ride mini-bikes on their own property, a completely legal activity. Unfortunately, their land backs up to a development with an HOA where the rules are heavily enforced. One of the development neighbors repeatedly called the cops when the kids rode, even after being threatened with a citation for doing so.

Unless I'm mistaken, LE would have PC if a neighbor made a call that MJ was being grown in the greenhouse, whether or not it was true. Take that to the next level (swatting) where the neighbor deliberately embellishes the story and there is the potential for an ugly scene. I'm one who flies flags and puts out displays on holidays and I've always known that there are those in my area who had disdain for my views. There are certainly some out there who believe that the end justifies the means.

I would agree that it might be as remote a possibility as being struck by lightning - but as one who has already had that personal experience, the possibility doesn't seem quite a remote as it might to others.