Tom, they look great!
I live in an apartment with no basement or attic. For the previous 2 winters I had them in a co-worker's garage. They did well there. But then he said he couldn't do it this year and I had to scramble to find housing. You'd be amazed how many have "crawl spaces" as opposed to real attics. I did come up with another co-worker. He had a second floor apartment that was going to be left unheated and unoccupied. I took it. Unfortunatley, it wasn't cold enough and I could tell that it wasn't watered enough.
They were like chaff! But Notanumber sent me a few plants and they are growing.
The bog next door gets raided by critters. It has cost me valuable plants. My buckets are all on the porch, second floor. They are uber-safer there!
We just have a fenced in area. Birds have been the only problem.