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Federal Government brat...
My current location is actually residence # 18 -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "Reka" wrote in message ... "Ray" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... OK, my turn... *I'm about two months' shy of 52, and have been growing orchids for over 30 years. Well, Ray, *shy* is not one of hte words I would use to describe you. Reading about your moves: this sounds like army brat? It's almost like I was destined to grow them: At age 6 I moved to Linwood, NJ and was about 3 blocks from Waldor. I was aware of the greenhouses, but didn't know what was in them. At age 10 I moved to England, and was about a mile from a very large paph range, but saw nothing in them. A few years later I ended up in NW DC, and the Kensington area was one of my high school stomping grounds...again close to orchids, but didn't know it. As a junior at Ga Tech, I started volunteering my free time at the public greenhouses in Piedmont Park (now the Atlanta Botanical Garden). About a year into that I started watering the orchid house, and ran into a school buddy, Roger Huntington. I mentioned that I didn't know he was into orchids, and the folks around me started laughing. Yep, his dad is Merritt, who owned Kensington Orchids and was some official in the AOS at that time... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.573 / Virus Database: 363 - Release Date: 28.01.04 |
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