Diann, I need your attitude. I'm just heartsick. At one point Andy had to (gently) yell at me to get moving because all I could do was stand in the middle of my pips and stare at them. Maybe I was trying to convince them to go back in the ground, I don't know. I wasn't in a great state of mind. The last owner of our house left about a hundred (or two) spare pots under the deck, Andy crawled under there to pull them out.
The pips that had a sheet and the pot covering them seemed to fare okay, I did find frost on some of those with only a plastic pot and the plastic sheeting didn't do squat to protect the Japanese Maple. I focused my efforts on my favorites and those seem to be okay. Only time will tell though