I don't think I've worked harder than I have in the last two years, with the hurricanes and now this. But this is part of the business. We always fight the weather.

The main part of this plant is cooked. But new vines, which we call suckers, will come out and replace these dead ones. These sucker vines will carry less tomatoes and they won't be pretty. This will be a sucker crop this spring.

It will be a less vigorous bush. The damage will set the plants back two or three weeks. We won't know the percentage of loss for awhile.

I've been doing this all my life and I've seen frost cover the tops of six-inch plants or most of the tender parts, but these were completely covered. It was wild.

I'm representing myself in this case because I can't afford to hire an attorney. It doesn't seem right somehow that I'm paying the salaries of the lawyers on the other side, too.

It?s not intended to be a museum. It?s not the kind of thing the average member of the public could walk in and take a look at.