On Saturday morning I was up at 6:30AM after a not good night of sleep. I worked on getting photos edited and then at 8AM I called to see if we were going to the Orchid Show at 9AM. I had to sweep all the steps for all the snow that came down during the night before I left and then I got ready to go and just after 9AM we headed out.
The first thing I did when we got there was buy a new t shirt. They’d brought in new shirts in lots of pretty colors. Then I headed to the sale area and picked out a new African violet victim. And finally I went to the magnet booth and got a new magnet, a luna moth.
They have a table you can leave your plants at from the sale area so I parked my swag there. And on to the Show!
There’s always a big display when you come in the door and the first 2 on the left and center are of that. Then I went down the vendor side just past the display and finally went into the Show displays.
There weren’t as many “Smell Me” signs as last year nor as many displays.
Since the pandemic, the Show has never recovered its former glory. But the heavenly scent from so many blossoms in the enclosed area is still much the same.
I went around twice as is my habit. First to find the “Smell Me”s and get photos of my favorites and the second time to get photos of what I might have missed on the first round.
In the center of the area is a display of orchids and other exotic or house plants. The tub of orchids was in that area.
They have displays of other things, like this one of photos of native orchids in Massachusetts, to fill in along the sides.
When I’d finished my tours, I went to find the woman who brought me. She was browsing the orchid sale area and ended up getting a good sized one and a tiny one grown on a piece of bark. I sat in the Show area and absorbed the lovely smell until she had finished.
I was home by 10AM and got something to eat. I lost energy about then (poor night’s sleep) and ended up dozing on the couch to Doc Martin for a couple hours.
I got up and tended the stoves as the sun from the morning was long gone, then went in and got the QOTW post up. I sat for a while then finally got my regular post up.
I went out at 5:30PM to feed the birds and the storm/blizzard the weather guy has been on about was moving in.
Then I noticed the curl of snow off the front shelter roof. Once back inside I made supper and finished the last episode of Doc Martin.
I decided to watched the series The Good Life again while tending stoves. It was produced in 1975 until 1978 in Britain.
I headed to bed just before 9PM.
On Sunday I have to work up the seed starting charts, put biology in each new seed packet, and figure out where the seedlings will go in the windows and what equipment I need to set up for that.
Tom called Saturday night and said he’d be here around 9AM to fix bluebird houses and maybe get them up if the snow held off.
So another busy day…
