coh
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Speeding ticket in a mini-van? I didn't even know that was possible!
Shout out to Adair
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JudyB
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What a nice story, and even nicer trees. There are some really good people in the sport of bonsai, we are lucky to get to think of them as friends whether we've met them in person or not. 
coh
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Ah yes, kids...there's the wildcard! That explains everythingI've been driving for 34 years and probably have 8 speeding tickets in that time... all except two received while driving a mini van... kids tend to make you late for work.
Is the mini-van red?
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Nuttier than your average Nut
RedNeck Study Group... in a minivan!
The police have standing orders to prevent infiltrations of any gathering of RedNecks of any persuasion by any persons driving minivans.
You were lucky you weren’t shot on sight!
I think vintage 200,000 mile Camry’s will land you overnight in jail! And, trust me on this, you don’t want that! Remember, I live about 15 miles from where they filmed Deliverence.
Lazylightningny
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Spent many hours in the back of a VW minivan in the 70s. Don't remember much of it.
Uh, lazy??? That’s called “Hippie”.
RedNeck is a whole ‘nuther category!
And it was called a “minibus”.
coh
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Do you play the banjo?
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Looking forward to next spring's re-pot....
Cadillactaste
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Really is a sweet tree!
coachspinks
Chumono
I really hate I missed that class. There was just too much going on this weekend.
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What class? I haven't been to a bonsai class in years...
coachspinks
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Adair was at Plant City Saturday doing a fall maint. class. The cost was very reasonable considering the time you got to spend with someone of Adair's ability.Your pine is similar to ones I saw pictured on FB posts from the clas.
That pine is better than most of the ones in the class. But a couple of the ones in the class are getting better! One student from Alabama has brought back a couple trees from past workshops, and they’re progressing forward.
Which brings up...
If you can find an instructor that you can study with several times a year, and you use the same tree, you will learn how to really move your trees forward. Always taking new raw stock to workshops doesn’t have the same effect. Sure, you learn how to get them started, but working on how to begin refinement is different than rough styling.
Also, taking the same tree to multiple bonsai teachers is detrimental. Each teacher may have a different vision for the tree, and it gets “restarted” over and over.
By the way, on Dav4’s olive...
It’s perfectly acceptable to remove all those suckers, and make it into a single trunk tree as another style. Then, it would have more of a “pancake” style nebari.
Or, develop as a clump. These things grow quickly!
It’s perfectly acceptable to remove all those suckers, and make it into a single trunk tree as another style. Then, it would have more of a “pancake” style nebari.
Or, develop as a clump. These things grow quickly!
Dav4
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Ummmmmmm...... ouch!
