Fall is clearly approaching, with loads of ripe figs and
spiders all over the place. I feel like I haven’t posted anything here in ages, and as
usual am having a hard time getting back into the habit. A combination of factors
have conspired to keep me away from the blog and away from other things that
are not at the very top of my crisis mode to-do list.
First there was urgent family business to take care of.
Then, I suddenly got a small window of time in which to do orchid care that had
been deferred for too many years. There’s still a long way to go on that, but
at least I’ve made a start on repotting big plants and potting out small ones
individually. I wrote a short, one-act play to submit for our fall show, the deadline
for which is fast approaching.
At the same time, I was scrambling to get pre-production
samples of the new bottles ready to go to Elements. If anyone is in New York
and going there, you can see Olympic Orchids’ new look at the Blackbird display
and get to meet Nicole, Liz, and/or Aaron, all wonderful people. I have filled
all but one bottle of my set, and will be photographing them within the next
few days.
I’ve also been preparing for my class that starts a week
from Tuesday. It’s a spinoff of the old one that I’ve been teaching, but is a
completely new reincarnation with less “arts” and more “science”, which seems
to be what students want these days. They apparently are all suffering from the
illusion that “hard science”, math, and engineering courses will get them into
high-paying jobs or high-paying professions, and that they can’t afford to
waste time on frivolous things like the arts. I’m not so sure about that.
This weekend is full of events as well, including a training
class for lavender judges. It happens tomorrow morning so I’ll probably write
about it here once I experience it. Who knew that there was such a thing as
lavender judging?
Last, but not least, I just realized that in all the chaos I
forgot to do the drawing for those who responded to my questionnaire about gift
boxes. The little scrap of paper tells me that the winner is GAIL, who gets to
choose a 15 ml bottle of perfume.
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