Re: AIS Bulletin

From: Pooreplace@aol.com

Evening Iris Enthusiasts...  

I stopped posting to this thing long ago, cuz I couldn't ever get the subject 
tags right and got tired of getting reprimanded like I'd just dropped my 
twenty-year-old frayed and brittle first grade reader in the mud while 
deboarding the smokey, fume-ridden yeller school bus...  However, drastic 
measures require drastic measures...  I'm sure I've mis-tagged here, but in 
the absence of what in the #*$@ to put, this'll have to suffice, so please 
"subject tag police", give me a rest...  I've been ailin' ...  

JUST fished the mail out of the box and found my copy of the "October" (but 
don't let me get up on my soap box for that topic) AIS Bulletin in the 
mails...  Started Reading...  Didn't get fer...  Barely digested the 
apologies or explanations for the lateness of the July Bulletin...  JULY?!?   
Knew a new symposium ballot was coming (or so I had heard MONTHS ago, which 
is about how long it's been since I've talked to an iris person...  Sure do 
miss Ruth...  :-(   ---   ) but as I started perusing the Ballot (thinking 
I'd be able to easily get to it by year end, even with Y2K Preparedness at 
full throttle) I READ on the ballot it is due BACK by DECEMBER 1st!!!  Is 
this surely a mistake???  A typo???  Has it been extended, if for nothing 
other than horrendous lateness of delivery??? 

If it hasn't I must wonder:  Good God, why on earth did they go to all the 
trouble and expense of reprinting the whole entire thing if they weren't 
going to give a soul time to sufficiently re-digest (after all, it's been a 
LONG time since Iris season) the ordeal and properly fill it out. 

When I read through the ballot, I like to take it in pieces, giving my mind 
and eyes time to reflect on each iris individually.  Right now, many names 
will bring up pictures of Daylilies by that name before it'll ever shuttle 
back as fer as iris season.  

Don't mean to be on a Witch on Wheels here, but there are many of us (me 
anyway) that actually do have a life outside of "just iris" and I have some 
pretty serious travel plans commencing in a few short hours, with a crack of 
dawn surgery set for  Monday, and depending upon certain outcomes --- I'm 
sure I'm gonna be pretty out-a-commission til after Thanksgiving.  

I know, priorities, priorities.  Guess if I give up getting up the Christmas 
lights and putting out the Christmas Kardz along with the seasonal 
greeting---usually long as a novel, I'd have time to drop everything and do 
this RIGHT now...  Am I just all wet here, or what???  Or did my copy of the 
new Bulletin come via Pony Express??? 

Cheers,  Kath in OKC... =^.^= aka:  Kathy L. Poore   AIS Region 22,  USDA 
Zone 7 

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