Hi, my name is Chas & I'm addicted to orchids...

[ChasWG]

So I've been around here for a little while now, but I've never open up this forum before and I thought, maybe I should type something up. BTW, I like run on sentences!

I'm a 44 year old guy with a wife, that likes orchids, but what's to keep me from owning too many. That's going to be an issue... And I have two lovely kids. A boy (11) who is into sports and a daughter (9) who is into everything. Including my orchids. "Daddy, I sprayed your plants!" "Thanks honey... why didn't I hide that spray bottle?"

My job is a unique one. Some days I'm enployed and others I'm not. I'm a freelance sound mixer. I do television shows, commercials, news, whatever. If they are paying in American dollars, I'm there!
Lately it's been NFL Network keeping me busy. I'm here in the Denver, CO area so I'm a huge Broncos fan. And as of late, we have a QB issue. I love it from a business standpoint, but I hate it from a fan's standpoint. Money wins!

Being in television for the past 15 years I have learned quite a bit about lighting and other things related to TV production. It's the knowledge about lighting that I use for my orchids.

See, it's all about orchids really, everything circles back to orchids!

As for plants that I have:
1 x Dendrodium Norma Jackson x Den. 'Pinksunshine'
1 x Neostylis lou sneary 'Bluebird'
1 x Brassavola cordata
1 x Phalaenopsis stuartiana
3 x noid phals (but their real pretty!)

Lately I have gotten into mounting my orchids. At this point I haven't mounted one yet, but I'm real close. I'm still gathering info. And courage.

Anyhow, thanks for listening and feeding my obsession!

[MuscleGirl'sHobby]

Cool, it's always fun to learn more about fellow OBers I grew up in Wyoming, and am a Broncos fan myself.

That's too cute about your daughter! Mine is 8, and sometimes is real into the orchids, other times not so much. It sounds as though you could up with a little partner in orchid crime though!

[l.ania]

Hi Chas, I'm Ania and I'm addicted to orchids too! As, I suppose, everybody here....
I personally love that Neostylis!

[Becky15349]

Hi Chas! Welcome to orchids anonymous, aka Orchid Board!! We are all stricken with the orchid disease here, so its one big happy family

[quiltergal]

Hey Chas! Nice to meet you so to speak.

I'm from Southern Oregon and work at a community college.

I remember not so long ago when I only had 7 orchids. Now you have to add a 5 after the 7. As you've gathered by now we're very good at enabling.

[cb977]

Hi Chas
to Enablers-R-Us

What a great intro! We're always happy to meet a friend

[SP2340]

Welcome! Talking about football I saw this insteresting program about how they make "the line" on the feild while their playing that dissapears and reappears... it was very interesting!

[RosieC]

Hi Chas, it's great to have you here

[nenella]

Welcome to the OB Chas!

[Soonix]

Hallo and Welcome to OB.