"Greetings, Hello" from Kotar

[SteveKotarski]

Hi I should finally take a minute to intoduce myself. I'm long time plant nut, and i've had an orchid fever of 107 degrees for the past year. I live in NJ and grow outside when its warm and in the basement jungle when its cold. Its cold for most of the year here in the garden state, so I spend a lot of time in the basement finicking over my plants lately. In my free time, I work for Tewksbury Orchids and have become quite good friends with the owner, Hildegard Howell. I work for plants, not money. This has really allowed me to develop quite a collection. I am mainly focused on Paphs and Masdevallias, although i've aquired a little bit of everthing that can be grown intermediate for half of the year.
I work at a country club during the day and my wife works as a 911 operator on the midnight shift. It does get lonly at night when she's at work, so I've really been spending a lot of time with the plants. They are good company. It may seem quite peculiar to normal people, but I thought there might be some folk on here who can sympathize... anyway, I'll end this rambling rant and go post some pics!