Re: OT-CHAT: Weather & Judging School
- Subject: Re: OT-CHAT: Weather & Judging School
- From: P* D*
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 18:01:48 -0600
From: "Perry Dyer" <pdyer@flash.net>
Hi Ruth:
Thanks for the compliments. Modest Ms. Simmons isn't about to toot her own
horn, to the tune that TBIS has just issued, bar-none, the classiest
publication I have EVER seen in my 35 years of irises. She is the Editor of
Tall-Talk and has done an incredible job. If you have a job, and want it
done right, go see Ruth. Maybe that's why AIS has made her Secretary -- to
keep everybody ON TRACK!!!
Blanchard was right on the edge. Only about 2 inches of snow, which was
completely melted by the time I left for church this morning. 40 miles
north, in Edmond (north Oklahoma City suburb, where many of the convention
gardens are), it was a different story. I just came back from playing a
church service for our retirement home there this afternoon, and there were
still 6' tall snow men in the yards, and water everywhere from the melting.
During the service, the melting was so steady it sounded like it was
raining.
I personally was grateful to see the cold snap and snow move through. We
needed to slow the irises down some (too much warm weather early, and too
much early growth). Only got down to 31 here last night, and predicted to
be 26 tonight. Don't think it'll hurt any of the forming buds, because the
ground temps have been so warm. I think we're right on schedule now for
peak bloom for the convention. But I sure am glad I wasn't out in it. The
area between Tulsa and Pawnee really caught the brunt of it, so I bet Ron
Mullin really did have fun getting home from the Austin trip. Hope he made
it safely. The turnpike southeast out of Tulsa (between T-Town and OKC) was
CLOSED for quite some time.
Working on the convention booklet(s) this weekend. It's going well.
Perry Dyer
-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth Simmons <ruth@sonetcom.com>
To: iris-talk@onelist.com <iris-talk@onelist.com>
Date: Sunday, March 14, 1999 3:53 PM
Subject: [iris-talk] OT-CHAT: Weather & Judging School
>From: "Ruth Simmons" <ruth@sonetcom.com>
>
>I left Southwest Oklahoma Thursday morning with 3 of my granddaughters (out
>of school on spring break) for Tulsa. Tulsa Area Iris Society had their
>meeting Thursday night. I met Glenn Simmons at the meeting. We aren't any
>kin but have become friends on this Iris-Talk list. That's the fun part of
>iris involvement - meeting people and making friends. I liked the way Glenn
>spoke up and asked questions at the meeting.
>
>Anyway it had started to rain before the meeting ended and by morning a
>winter storm was predicted to move in. Hooker Nichols was scheduled to give
>a judging school on Saturday. Friday morning Hooker had definitely
cancelled
>and we loaded up and headed back to the drylands. We drove in rain all the
>way. (230 miles)
>
>By Saturday Tulsa and Oklahoma City had over a foot of snow, closing part
of
>the road between the cities. Ron Mullin had flew back into Tulsa from
Austin
>Sat afternoon after giving a judging school down there. He almost needed a
>snow plow to get home.
>
>Hopefully this late freeze will not harm our convention gardens in Okla
>City. We probably needed a little cold to hold them back. Looking forward
>to spring & a good bloom season.
>
>Ruth B. Simmons - Zone 7
>
>PS - Welcome Perry Dyer of our Region to Iris Talk. Perry is one hard
>working dude. And he knows a lot about iris!
>
>
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