RE: Early Show-long

Congratulations, Rusty.  Sounds like you'e been infected with the show
bug.  Enjoy your shows.  All our possible shows in the area have for
some reason been scheduled for the same weekend, so we'll only be doing
one show this year.

Maureen Mark
Ottawa, Canada (zone 4) -- I forgot to mention the pulsatilla (anenome)
is is bloom too.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Rusty Thornsburg [SMTP:rtburg@mailexcite.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, April 11, 1998 9:00 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Early Show-long
> 
> Yesss!
> 
> Today was the early Dallas show... I took a few things to show.
> Friday night, I
> cut THORNBIRD and BURGUNDY BUBBLES (both in bud, TB in "loose" bud,
> and BB in "tight"
> bud) and set them in the bathroom while I took a shower, and cleaned
> out my vaporizer
> using very hot water.  I left the light on all night, and at 5 am in
> the morning,
> Thornbird had 2 blooms, both with those *perfect* appendages on the
> cover of the
> Oct. Bulletin (don't you all hate me now?), and Burgundy Bubbles
> opened up its terminal
> bud, too.  At 7 am, disaster struck.  As I was getting into the car,
> my t-a-l-l stalk
> of Thornbird brushed against the car...5 miles later I realized that
> one of the horns
> had snapped and the end-half of it was hanging... (It's over 30 miles
> from my house
> to the show...)  Anyway, we (my father and I) got there, set up my
> stuff, (I did
> eventually compete with the adults) and then we left.  After lunch, my
> mother brought
> me back to the show... Burgundy Bubbles won a blue ribbon, so did
> Fairy Goblin (AB),
> Sterling Prince and Thornbird both won red ribbons.  Not bad for my
> first show ;)
>  I stayed the whole time (of the actual show), handing out "People's
> Choice" ballots
> and wish lists to fill out...  It was really exciting!  I also got to
> meet Ellen
> Sullivan who is on our list; she judged the show.  That was I think
> one of the big
> highlights of my day.  And I learned so much about how to transport
> irises, how to
> display them, etc.  If this was the *early* show I can't wait until
> the main show!
> 
> 
> Now, all I have to do is write about Thursday's Fort Worth meeting...
> 
> Rusty
> 
> 
> 
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