Re: [AGA-mcm] message from Karen to Sean Re: PlantFest

[Ghazanfar Ghori <ghorig@gmail.com>]

Florida here we come!


On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:38:50 +0000, Sean Murphy <seancmurphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Plantfest day two:
> 
> He knew where the park was and the contact with the ranger was probably easy
> for him to set up, as I bet the guy told him when he was available.  Other
> than that he had no knowledge of the facilities, requirements to rent canoes
> to 20 people, cost of said canoe rentals, or other little nuances that being
> in a state park bring to a collecting trip.
> 
> Yes, I had fun once we got there and saw the crypt bed.  Yes, I had fun once
> we got the canoe problem settled, I stayed at the rental counter to help him
> get it settled, I forget who actually did have a credit card with them, it
> might have been one of our guys if I remember.
> 
> After that he convinced us to follow him to a 'mirage' seller of driftwood,
> which legthened our trip with no results, except we ended up at a saltmarsh.
>  Yes, I had fun seeing the saltmarsh, that's the habitat that I did my
> thesis work on, but the idea was to show us a place to get driftwood, the
> saltmarsh was an accident.
> 
> We left the plantfest crowd and went on our own collecting trip after that.
> 
> Did I have fun on my trip to FL, yes, we saw a spring the next day that was
> more crowded that the first but, amazingly, had more wildlife.  We caught a
> lot of interesting fish and collected several plants  that I'm continuing to
> keep.  The Driftwood place that Does exist sold us lots of (inexpensive)
> wood  that is hard to sink but eventually does, along with some nice
> petrified wood.  We had a great tour of FAN, that was very interesting and
> certainly helps build an appreciation for where the plants come from.
> 
> Does a swinging bunt that allows the batter enough time to reach first base
> safely count the same as a homerun for your batting average?  Yes, but
> someone always makes a note of the homeruns.
> 
> If he is the one pulling the bid together you might have to babysit the
> group more than you want to, at least as much as you did with us.  Keep
> asking after the particulars, they don't register otherwise.
> 
> Am I going to FL with the GWAPA folks again this year if we pull a trip
> together?  You bet.  Will we wait for a plantfest to be declared, nope.
> 
> 
> 
> Sean C. Murphy
> SCM Tourney Boards / Fisheries Biologist
> There is a fine line between fishing and standing on the bank looking like
> an idiot.
> 
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>
> Reply-To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] message from Karen to Sean Re: PlantFest
> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 16:12:45 -0500
> 
> 
> 
> Thats why, if he had trouble organizing that, we'd want to know that he had
> a LOT of organizational help before committing to a convention.
> 
> Also, just so that it's clear to everyone, I don't any of us should or would
> hold it against someone whose organizational skills were not up to handling
> a convention.  A person can have a OT of wonderful skills and attributes,
> (not to mention being a very nice person) and still not have the skill set
> to run a convention.
> 
> Karen
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ghazanfar Ghori" <ghorig@gmail.com>
> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] message from Karen to Sean Re: PlantFest
> 
> > Plantfest is a field trip event, with about 20 people.
> > Folks arrange their own transportation.
> > Not a whole lot to organize. Just line up a program and it sorta falls
> > into place from there.
> >
> > Had fun at Plantfest II though...
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 00:18:10 -0600, Paul Krombholz
> > <pkrombholz@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > I have no complaints about the organization of Plantfest II.  I
> > > thought it was great that Tom got permission to visit the patch of
> > > Crypts on the Rainbow River that was so zealously guarded previously!
> > > If I were to do the same thing again, I wouldn't do the Rainbow River
> > > on Saturday when it was so overcrowded with boats, inner tubers, etc.
> > > that the plant-hunting experience was more or less spoiled. Other
> > > than that, everything went well.  Of course, organizing a convention
> > > is a lot more intricate and detailed than organizing plantfest.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Paul Krombholz in soggy central Mississippi
> > >
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