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Who We Are revisited
It will be there when I get organised.
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:41:29 GMT, "Kye" wrote: Thats not that bad an idea mate, will start the thread... I assume that you will post a pic too??? Kye. "Dave Gillingham" wrote in message .. . Hey, what about a picture on abpo? On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:22:36 GMT, "J Fortuna" wrote: It's been about a year since we have all introduced ourselves to each other here on rgo, and I know we have newcomers (including new regulars) since then. If you are a newcomers, or if you did not respond the last time, or if your answers to "What do I grow?" or "Where do I grow?" or "biggest orchid accomplishments" have changed quite a bit in the meantime, please please respond! Even if you have responded before, here are a few reasons for you to reply again: newcomers may not know you yet, not everyone searches the archives and even if they did this kind of thread is not as easy to find since the title contains only common search words and newcomers won't know which terms to use to search for this. In November 2001 Kye posted a message containing a set of questions to encourage fellow rgo'ers to introduce themselves. I think that this is worth doing on a regular basis. So here are Kye's questions with my revised answers: --------------------------------------------------------- -- Who am I and What Is My Gender? Joanna, pregnant female. :-) The baby's gender will be male, and his name shall be Robert. Only 3 more weeks till the anticipated delivery date -- and time has started to move very slowly now. -- Where am I? Where do I grow? Fairfax, Virginia (Washington DC area, USA). Windowsill and shelves of a condo (shaded eastern and northern exposures with supplemental grow lights). The ground floor condo we moved to this summer provides very high humidity (earlier this year it was 60-90%, now that the heat is on it is down to 'only' 40-80%). -- What do I grow? 32 Phals/Dtps, 9 Paphs, 2 miniature cattleyas, 1 cochleanthes amazonica, 1 Phrag, 1 Burrageara and 1 Psychopsis. 47 orchids total, 21 of these were acquired in 2004, and 16 of them are 2005 acquisitions. -- The decade of my age? 3rd. -- How long have I been growing orchids? Started in April or May 2001 with an orchid that was a wedding present, and was decapitated accidentally with the window blinds a week later, and so I acquired a second to be able to truthfully say "yes, the orchid is doing beautifully" on the phone to the gift-giver of the first one. 3.5 years later, both of these orchids are doing well, and are both in double spike at this time. -- My biggest orchid accomplishment(s)? Spikes, spikes, spikes! Most of my orchids are doing very well, many are in spike, and quite a few in multiple spike (4 spikes on one of the Phals), and I've had 5 Phal keikis thus far. In 4.5 years of growing orchids, I have killed only one so far -- though I anticipate that a few more may die next year unfortunately, a few are not doing well, and with the baby I will probably neglect them more, so only the sturdy ones will continue to do well. Since many of them are sturdy Phals though, I hope that most of them will be ok even with benign neglect. -- Miscellaneous Info... I am originally from Poland, and then Austria, but I have lived half my life in the US. I work as a Web developer (kind of, although by now my job seems to have shifted more toward tester -- Quality Control being really important, and me being very thorough and detail-oriented by nature). I am married to David, who is a very considerate orchid addict's spouse, and a very considerate spouse of a pregnant woman too. I think he will make a very good father. I will need to start thinking about child-proofing my orchid collection in time before the little guy becomes mobile. Best, Joanna Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. Dave Gillingham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To email me remove the .private from my email address. |
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