RE: OT-BIO Helen Crotty

Hi, Helen--I may be the missing Santa Fe resident.  I can't remember whether I 
wrote you on- or off-list. (see below)

As for killer cold, we just don't get it every year.  I know Ross wasn't here 
in 1971 (or was it 72?) when we had a solid week when the highs never got over 
zero (Fahrenheit).  Luckily for me, I wasn't here at the time, that being 
during my California hiatus, but having grown up here, I've seen it anyway.  
Happens every 10 or 15 years or so.  We're overdue for that kind of winter, by 
the way.

Hope to meet you in the spring.

Barb in Santa Fe
IrisMaven@msn.com

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From: 	iris-l@rt66.com on behalf of Helen K. Crotty
Sent: 	Wednesday, November 12, 1997 2:20 PM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	Re: OT-BIO Helen Crotty

Thanks for the welcomes from Dorothy Gordon, Mark Cook, and the Santa Fe
resident whose message I unfortunately lost before I wrote down the name
(please write again).   =

Hi Dorothy.  Sorry, but I won't be showing with NMIS--I'm 2000 feet highe=
r than Albuquerque and didn't have a single bloom at the time of this year'=s 
show.  That's why I also joined the Santa Fe society.

Ross, you say you don't get killer cold in Santa Fe.  How cold do you get=? 
=What is killer cold?  Seems to me that the 17-degree F nights we've had =from 
time to time do a pretty good job of killing off the annuals.  We do get down 
to zero and below occasionally here.   The coldest we measured w=as 17below, 
in 1982-83, our first winter here after moving from coastalCalifornia.  =


Helen Crotty, USDA Zone 5, Sunset Zone 2, 35 miles east of Albuquerque an=
d
35 miles southwest of Santa Fe.   Today's weather:
cloudy/foggy/snowy/rainy, 41degrees at noon, 20s last night.  =
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