Ultimatum to Save Current Lobby Phal

[JMNYC]

Trivialize? Really? I thought you were joking and I found it hilarious. Orchid Growing Goddess...I still...even hours later...find it entertaining.

K....give our little, atypical history, Katrina, that was not my take, nor is it still. I get compliments that mainly go in one ear and out the other. I have Virgo rising; I cut my own hair, do all 11 of my own nails (kidding I have 10), design and build my own cabinetry, build my own computers.....etc. but mainly, I am shoe savvy: anything that don fit, I don put on.

Ohhh sorry to hear this as I saw an exact duplicate of this at a local big box store. Hope he didn't pay too much as I'm sure another could be easily obtained for less than $40. Maybe even less than $30.

Forgive me, but yet again, you are missing data in this last 'helpful' offering: both about the reality of this individual plant (I think its two, actually), the quality of what this local guy offers, forget the presentation, and where I live people pay for the latter as much as the former....not the stuff of big box stores. Forget, this is MANHATTAN....and, an upscale part of Manhattan.

If only you knew what we paid the only guy in the world (took me forever to find him, thank God I knew a curator at Christie's) capable of making a custom mold to replace one of our original, 18" ceiling fixture shades in the lobby (circa 1931) when some mover guy broke it.....you would never believe it.

Peace! And be happy, Katrina! No reason for otherwise here.

---------- Post added at 06:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:52 PM ----------

Originally Posted by jcec1

Nice phal. I can understand why you covet it. Does the display get changed often? It seems such a shame if these plants get thrown away afterwards.

Indeed, they are all nice, Jimmy has uber taste. when the current one starts to look bad, meaning when a lot of its blooms fade, a new one just appears.

And boy, you nailed it: it is a huge shame, esp what it is emblematic of in those who do it! But, no different from my neighbors who buy more modest phals and also treat them as fi they are cut flowers. Again, every single one of my around 35 phals is from the trash of this building.

I can't save all of them, but just trying is so nourishing for me.

Face it, the huge, worldwide commercial phal industry is geared to this treat em like cheaper than cut flowers, but more cache...consumer base mindset!

Same deal with electronics: I see just from the trash and empty cartons, everyone has to have the most cutting edge tablets, smartphones and 60" LED "smart' TVs, etc.

And they all seem to shop at Barney's.

[katrina]

Originally Posted by JMNYC

Forgive me, but yet again, you are missing data in this last 'helpful' offering: both about the reality of this individual plant (I think its two, actually), the quality of what this local guy offers, forget the presentation, and where I live people pay for the latter as much as the former....not the stuff of big box stores. Forget, this is MANHATTAN....and, an upscale part of Manhattan.

If only you knew what we paid the only guy in the world (took me forever to find him, thank God I knew a curator at Christie's) capable of making a custom mold to replace one of our original, 18" ceiling fixture shades in the lobby (circa 1931) when some mover guy broke it.....you would never believe it.

Peace! And be happy, Katrina! No reason for otherwise here.[COLOR="Silver"]

---------- Post added at 06:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:52 PM ----------

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Well, just because you paid it...doesn't mean that's what it's worth. I was simply trying to point out that you can and would find a similar (if not the same phal) and you don't have to pay $100 for it. If someone wants to pay that much...fine...but it's not necessary.

As for the $$$ situation of where you live/your building/and all that other stuff...look, I get how expensive it can be where you live. My husband is from NJ and we have friends and family up and down the East Coast and we regularly visit and spend time w/those friends. Hell, my husband just got back from DC last week! We also have friends in CA...another very expensive area of the country. So, yea, I get it, I get, I geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet it. I think we all do. What I don't get is why your Mother didn't teach you that droning on and on about these topics is really rather crass. Not to mention...tiresome.

So, YES, I was laughing and I was serious about that fact in my first comment. I honestly thought you were joking about that Diva/Goddess BS. Sorry...I won't make that same mistake in the future.

FWIW -- I am happy...very happy, actually. But, I will admit that ill mannered boasting really does rub me the wrong way. Sorry. You have my permission to call me old fashioned.

[JMNYC]

Originally Posted by katrina

Well, just because you paid it...doesn't mean that's what it's worth. I was simply trying to point out that you can and would find a similar (if not the same phal) and you don't have to pay $100 for it. If someone wants to pay that much...fine...but it's not necessary.

As for the $$$ situation of where you live/your building/and all that other stuff...look, I get how expensive it can be where you live. My husband is from NJ and we have friends and family up and down the East Coast and we regularly visit and spend time w/those friends. Hell, my husband just got back from DC last week! We also have friends in CA...another very expensive area of the country. So, yea, I get it, I get, I geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet it. I think we all do. What I don't get is why your Mother didn't teach you that droning on and on about these topics is really rather crass. Not to mention...tiresome.

So, YES, I was laughing and I was serious about that fact in my first comment. I honestly thought you were joking about that Diva/Goddess BS. Sorry...I won't make that same mistake in the future.

FWIW -- I am happy...very happy, actually. But, I will admit that ill mannered boasting really does rub me the wrong way. Sorry. You have my permission to call me old fashioned.

I paid nothing. The building pays. This is a famous, landmark building. Pre war. And, penny wise, pound foolish in some things..is not why it is. WITNESS THE EXAMPLE OF the project I was given to replicate/replace the shattered ceiling shade.

Jimmy is also famous in my City...and the sharpest, most meticulous manager/owner, best businessperson I know. And time is money: the vendor in question is literally half a block from us; am sure Jimmy cut a deal with him and everyone wins.

If you still don't get, given what I took the time to share about myself to illustrate it clearly, that my calling myself what I did in that exchange was sardonic and self abrogating and FUN.....that I am the ANTI diva of all time.....I give UP.

I am not the assaulter here (nor was I previously or ever), nor the one who doesn't get things clearly and accurately.

Finis.

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Originally Posted by jcec1

Wow, what a beautiful lobby, all we have is a mailbox

While I love this building just as if it were a living being and get and know every part....the lobby is kinda pretentious.

Which is why, I think.....the giant, also pretentiously presented phals are not that happy there.

Plus, at this time of the year, the lobby is like a meat locker freezing/no humidity. U think they like that? No, they hate that!

I only hope, when I get her, I don't discover all her roots are rotted. We all know, despite what is visible above, it's what you find when you knock it out and remove the medium....that matters.

We just make honest efforts, and, I think, that's the privilege. I hope I can save her!

[katrina]

Originally Posted by JMNYC

Finis.

If only.....

[orchidsarefun]

it seems certain people - and its the same old, same old with predictable comments - take great pleasure in what I call "sweating the small stuff "

Here's an article to help :
How to stop sweating the small stuff - CNN.com

if that doesn't help, then please unsubscribe from topics that upset your sensibilities ! It can be done !

JMNYC - I enjoy this thread. Don't get discouraged by the partypoopers. I don't care if your building management pays $1,000 for an orchid. Its their money, not taxpayers.

[JMNYC]

Originally Posted by orchidsarefun

it seems certain people - and its the same old, same old with predictable comments - take great pleasure in what I call "sweating the small stuff "

Here's an article to help :
How to stop sweating the small stuff - CNN.com

if that doesn't help, then please unsubscribe from topics that upset your sensibilities ! It can be done !

JMNYC - I enjoy this thread. Don't get discouraged by the partypoopers. I don't care if your building management pays $1,000 for an orchid. Its their money, not taxpayers.

Blessings on you, you keen and emotionally healthy human in the Windy City!!!!!

I just wish more humans would own that the foundational journey is....WITHIN. Again, it's the health of the roots that matters and impacts everything! In ALL species.

And God Bless....The Loop!

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