[AGA-sc] [Fwd: Re: NEC?]

[Cheryl Rogers <cheryl@dustyuniverse.com>]

Bailin says he'll do it if no one else will. Yeah, like they're lining 
up for this. Shall I tell him he's elected?


Cheryl


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: NEC?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:10:22 +0000
From: Bailin Shaw <bailin_shaw@hotmail.com>
To: cheryl@dustyuniverse.com

Hi Cheryl,

Well, I guess if I can get some guidance from you, Eric, and Larry, I'll
sign up to chair the contest ONLY if noone else has put their name in for
the position.  I'd prefer someone else to chair, but I don't want to see
this contest go by the wayside this year.

Yeah.  The weather can certainly affect the shipping of plants.  I've taken
to shipping the plants in wet paper towels with very little water.  It 
seems
as though the water can really affect the way plants make it during
shipping.

Well, this will be the second rugrat.  :-)  I already have a little boy
who's five and this one will be a little girl.  I don't know SQUAT about 
how
to raise a girl, so this is going to be a new experience.

Talk to you soon.
Bailin

>
>Hmmm. So I sent the brevipes on Tuesday, and you got it Friday. But I 
>trimmed it on Sunday and left it floating in a baggie until the Tuesday.
>
>So I'll grow you some more and be more careful this time. I'll try to do it 
>in a hurry. We're having a nice spring but it's not going to get any cooler 
>from here.
>
>:-)
>
>Congrats on the upcoming new kid. How many does this make?
>
>The contest chair I see as basically a manager. Or, if you prefer, 
>ringmaster of a three-ring circus. :-)
>
>- Get somebody to advertise online and stay on 'em.
>
>- Get someone to create graphics and stay on 'em.
>
>- Get someone to get prizes and stay on 'em. We've been doing cash prizes 
>so that's not as hard as it used to be. Plus, we have a nice pool of 
>sponsors that would probably pony up again.
>
>- Get several someones to judge. Generally whoever bitched the most about 
>the results last year: Gomer, gnatster come to mind. Or how about that 
>Finnish guy who was featured in Aquajournal, Juha-Matti Aalto.
>
>Erik will still do all the technical stuff, managing the uploads, web site, 
>results, and various e-mail lists for volunteers and judges.
>
>I have been collecting the e-mails of everyone who has volunteered to help 
>with the contest or with graphics or with advertising in the past year. It 
>amounts to quite a list, so surely there's some wheat in the chaff.
>
>I don't think it would take a lot of your personal time if you could get a 
>team together, but it would take just a little every day.
>
>Cheryl
>
>
>Bailin Shaw wrote:
>>Hi Cheryl,
>>
>>Got the plants last Friday.  The dwarf riccia made it in good shape, but 
>>the Ludwigia brevipes came in melted.  Oh well, that's what happens with 
>>the heat of summer.  I'm sending some of the following plants:
>>
>>Several stems of Pogastemon helferi.
>>Some Ranunculus inundatus.
>>A stem of Ammania gracilis.
>>Some Elatine triandre.
>>
>>I'll have some additional plants to send you later this month at the next 
>>pruning.  You caught me at a slow point after a recent pruning.  I have 
>>some Rotala sp. Colorata, Limnophila aromatica, and some other odds and 
>>ends you might be interested in growing.  I'll send these out tomorrow 
>>morning.  Thanks for the dwarf riccia.  I'll have to see about getting 
>>some of the brevipes at the upcoming AGA convention this year.  :-)  May 
>>work better that way.
>>
>>Also, I meant to ask what the requirements for the Chair of the contest 
>>would entail.  I'm about to add another baby to the mix, but depending on 
>>the amount of duties involved, I might be convinced to take on the 
>>responsibilities if there hasn't been any interest yet.  I'm not computer 
>>savvy, so I'd definitely need to get a good committee to help out with 
>>that aspect of things.  The more the merrier in my opinion.  However, let 
>>me know what the requirements are and get the "ok" from the better half.
>>
>>Bailin
>>>




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