Nina - I missed you at the show. You must have been in one of your
disguises.
My view of the convention differs a bit from yours. From where I sit, it
was a fiasco. At the beginning, there were 3 forest demos in a row, all
teaching the same principles. The sound system was terrible, the hall was
too big, and the layout of the convention required roller skates to get from
ballroom to the end of the workshop rooms. I haven't yet mentioned the
meals, because food is expected to be inconsequential in appraising such
affairs; but .... I'm sure the diet in a Russian Gulag was better than what
we got.
On the good side, I bumped into some old friends and met some interesting
new people. I guess that's the basic purpose of conventions; so I'll have
to retract all I said and say:"I'm sorry".

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From: "Nina"
To:
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 1:09 PM
Subject: [IBC] DC do


Jim Lewis wrote:
Hoist one for me, please.

You bet we did, Jim. Unfortunately, the best we could do was Sam
Adams.....

The bonsai convention was great fun on Saturday, with a remarkable
number of IBC'ers in attendance. I was a little disappointed that the
exhibit contained more rocks than trees- is this because of quarantine
restrictions? I got an earful from everybody about quarantine
restrictions!!!!! Apparently a carload of Canadian trees were stopped
at the border....

Here's the hot scoop on pots (please pass this news on to Reiner):
Pink is the new blue. I was told by a pot dealer that pink is very
popular now in Japan, but wasn't selling very well in the US.

Nina, who bought a pot of pale salmon pink and is very happy with it.

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