Thanks Susan. Balloons are fun! I will add "Cichlids" to my spell check to prevent future bus induced typos. -Paul On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Susan Welenofsky wrote: > Great job Paul. Cichlids is misspelled though. > > I got the ballon inflator and will get the Ziploc bags at Costco. > > Susan > > -----Original Message----- > From: gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com] > On Behalf Of Paul Wallace > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:15 PM > To: GSAS board members and alumni > Subject: Re: [GSAS-board] Newsletter > > Steev: > > Not the most inspired prose but I assume that the newsletter will have more > than enough on the auction. > > -Paul > > > Message from the President: > > On my calendar I see a number of exciting events for our club. First, our > January program was one of the best in my opinion as our own Jack Lawless > covered his efforts to reintroduce Salmon to Fauntleroy Creek in West > Seattle. I am looking forward to the release party in March. > > On February 12th we hold the annual Plant (and livestock) auction. > Checking starts at 6:30, viewing at 7:00 with the auction at 7:30. There is > always something interesting for everybody. In April we follow up with the > general auction which is so big it will be held on SATURDAY April 12. > > We also have two big speakers lined up to finish the year. He first is Luis > Navarro of planted tank fame. His talk will detail the anatomy of a planted > tank and how aquascapeing can be used to build a work of art. In May, the > owner of the Wet Spot in Portland will visit and talk on chiclids. Steve > has experience as a collector, fish store owner, wholesaler, and hobbyist > with a unique perspective. > > Finally the season ends with a home show and picnic. What a year! > > > > ************************************************************************* > Paul M. Wallace, PhD. Tel. (206)685-6775 > Staff Engineer, NanoTech User Facility Fax: (206)543-3059 > Center for Nanotechnology Email: pwallace@u.washington.edu > Fluke Hall, Room 215 https://depts.washington.edu/ntuf > Box 352140 > Seattle, WA 98195 > ************************************************************************* > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Steev Ward wrote: > >> The empty space I'm looking at would hold 250 nicely if you don't use too > many big >> words. >> But anything from 50 to 500 would be fine. >> >> Steev >> >> >> --- Matt Staroscik <matt@wrongcrowd.com> wrote: >> >>> How many words do I have for the Home Show? Roughly. >>> >> >> >> >> > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ________ >> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. >> http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >> _______________________________________________ >> GSAS-board mailing list >> GSAS-board@thekrib.com >> http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-board >> > > > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-board mailing list > GSAS-board@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-board > > _______________________________________________ > GSAS-board mailing list > GSAS-board@thekrib.com > http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-board > _______________________________________________ GSAS-board mailing list GSAS-board@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-board