When you panic and quickly build a shadehouse in 2 weekends to get your chids out of the direct sun but the kitchen remodel you have been working on is now in YEAR 8! :faint:

You get all excited when the red frowny face on Troy Meyers turns to a green smiley face and you anticipate when the flask will be ready to ship. :mrgreen:

You take a bamboo skewer and pollinate a couple of your chids "just to see what will happen" and you end up planning flasking with Troy and wait while the seed pods cook. :yikes:

You have no problem waiting over 365 days for a seed pod to cook, but constantly tell a bud on a spike "bloom dammit." :tapfoot:

When you start tearing perfectly good plants out of the ground that you just recently planted, and spent prolly a thousand dollars on, just so you can build another pergola to house more orchids you don't yet have.

Speaking of which, I have two coconut palms in the back yard along the fence, which stand about 11 feet from each other in a north/south direction. I just cut down about 15 culms of 2-4" bamboo at 14' lengths. I plan on building the pergola to be in between the palms, and have a little shade from the west sun. The east sun is shaded of as is the noon sun by the palm trees. The top will be 9' long (north to south) and 5' wide (east to west). It will not have any screen on top, just smaller 1" bamboo across the top every 18" or so. Just something to hang chids from. The whole structurewill be about 9-10' high. Pics to follow...

When your wondering if your mom would notice if you left all your clothes in Florida and filled your suitcase with orchids...

When you go shopping for clothes and say to yourself, "I could buy 50 6x7 Air cone pots for the price of these slacks."


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OMG i do that do I measure money in either corals or orchids not dollars its kinda sad actually!

... when you begin to save your money not for orchids but for planning to buy your next house pictured below ...

I have to move soon and when I am looking at new appartments the first thing I look at is the size of the windows and the light coming thru them.. :blushing:

I don't see anything wrong in that! When we bought the house I live in now I wanted to be at least 60 feet above sea level (in case the ice caps melt - we are near a major river confluence and some of the land is very flat and below sea level) and near a good school for the kids - but that was before I got into orchids:rofl:

When you would rather pay for someone to water your orchids than clean your house. :nod:

Hmmmm. I would rather pay someone to clean and I'LL water the chids. thank you very much. :) Carol