Greetings from Italy...

[sucuz]

You have quite a collection going for only 6 months into your wonderful obsession. You will soon be coming to the balance point of choice:

1) Firmly discipline yourself. You will keep yourself under control. Allow yourself only those orchids that your budget, available space, and growing conditions allow.

2) Forget the discipline. Go for it.

If you have been following this board for more than 20 minutes, you will have discovered that MOST of the people posting here pretty consistantly make choice #2.

Welcome to OB! Enjoy.

[Lovecats]

Mmmh... Choice one or two?
As I'm already managing for more room, I think the second!!
Thanks all!

[ChasWG]

Hey Lovecats, welcome! For only doing orchids for 6 moinths you are well ahead of me! I've been doing them for about 2 years but only with in the last 8 months or so have I really dived in with both feet.
I'd say that I'm more of a 1.5 of the two choices. Ha!

By the way, I was just over there in Italy covering the Giro d'Italia for US television. What a beautiful country you have there! All the folks I met were totally wonderful and sweet.

[Lovecats]

Thanks again everyone for your warm welcome..
And Chas, did you get your wallet back??
I'm joking of course.
Italy is a nice country, I'm proud to be Italian even if our political environment is not very popular in the last few days, or maybe it's too popular.. But these are Italian things..
Back to orchids, "skewer".. I think I know what's a skewer, or at least.. Do you mean "metal skewer"?
A skewer is something you use for cooking???

And forgive me for my English (I haven't been speaking it since 30 years ) and yes this means I'm old!!
Well, not so old...

[ChasWG]

Lcats, "skewer" refers to a wooden one, like the ones used as a stir stick for coffee that you'd get at Starbucks or the like. That's whereI get mine from, a latte and a few stir sticks.

It's just a thin piece of wood.

[RosieC]

Hmm, I think like Chas I'm more a 1.5.

I try and try to be restrained, then suddenly Noid Phals in the supermarket refuse to stay out of my basket (I'll be posting pics when I get home of the two which I couldn't get to stay on the shelf last night. )

Lovecats, the english word 'skewer' can mean both metal and wooden ones so you are right to ask, but here on Orchid Board we always mean the wooden ones. The wood absorbes some of the moisture arround them and so if they are damp when you pull them out you know the medium is still moist.

[Lovecats]

Rosie it's epidemic!! This happened to me yesterday!
In a little supermarket a mini-phal jumped in my cart! I told her I was already engaged, but... What else.. She's with us now.

Skewer.. Of course it's a wooden skewer.. Silly question
Thank again!