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12-21-2013, 09:38 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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Location: MA, USA and Atenas Costa Rica
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Return of the prodigal orchid addict
I haven't been on in a very long time. In the interim since my last post I have sold my orchid friendly house in Massachusetts, moved to an apartment nearby and am snow-birding in my new second home in Costa Rica. A long time dream come true made possible by retirement. I had to greatly downsize my Massachusetts collection due to smaller and less plant friendly quarters. I went from about 60-80 plants to 15 mostly phals and paphs and now I'm starting a new collection here in Costa Rica. My first purchase for $3 was a bamboo orchid, Arundina graminifolia which is basically a weed here. I put it in a small patch next to my front porch. My second is a small mounted epidendrum, species unidentified but it is not a reed-stem type, which I am hanging on the back porch with dappled morning sun I will post pictures later.
It feels good to be back. 
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12-21-2013, 09:42 PM
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Welcome back ConnieStar! Gotta love Costa Rica. My younger daughter honeymooned there, via another friend's older brother who lives there 9 out of ten months. Consider me jealous. 
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12-21-2013, 10:42 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2010
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Welcome back, Connie. I have recently returned as well. Can't keep us away, can they.
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12-21-2013, 11:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
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 Welcome back Connie.
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12-21-2013, 11:19 PM
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I am so happy all is well with you! 
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12-22-2013, 03:13 PM
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Good to see you back here, Connie!
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12-22-2013, 06:21 PM
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you will have to keep us in the know about Costa Rica. Retiring to warmer climes.......and cheaper everything.........is a dream.
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12-22-2013, 08:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferns Daddy
 Welcome back Connie.
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Guess I won't see you at the Amherst Orchid Society show this year! I will miss that and all my orchid friends in New England. However, I do NOT miss the snow!
---------- Post added at 07:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:44 PM ----------
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Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit
Good to see you back here, Connie!
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It's good to have the time to be back. 
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12-22-2013, 11:01 PM
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Connie, there not much snow to miss  it was 65 today, I didn't make the Orchid show this year 
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12-24-2013, 11:40 AM
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