Kentucky Rick
Seedling
Sorce loves to use the catch phrase "Welcome to Crazy". I understand where he is coming with it now. I decided to jot down some of the crazy thoughts I have had starting out as a bonsai virgin. Feel free to share some of the things that make you wonder . . .
Why do I fee like a Poulan Pro with a dull chain?
Just buy used pots, its cheaper than buying new ones dirtied up with trees.
Where is the logic in “I want you to grow so bad so I can cut you back and make it look like you didn’t grow?”
Why don’t they sell Bonsai Superglue on the internet?
How can you tell when you have crossed the line between enthusiast and addict? Number of trees? Number of empty pots? Or is it a monetary value divided by time duration type of equation?
Its amazing that I can do so much damage to a $60 pre-bonsai when I can’t kill my $10 big box store juniper. Sure, it might look like a damaged corkscrew having a bad hair day, but it is still living and healthy and growing.
Maybe I can start a new business, “Pre-Bent Bonsai Wire for the Beginner”
Patience - Waiting for the water to boil in a kettle. Bonsai Patience - Waiting for the Dead Sea to evaporate.
You sure are wasting a lot of time killing that one.
I truly feel sorry for a bonsai enthusiast that is also an athletics coach. “Why do I have to keep a good performer on the bench?”
Being in construction all my life, I got to thinking, I have three trees now. I should probably have a greenhouse to winter these things in. Three days of designing one and I realized that my house cost about $35 per square foot to build. My greenhouse is about $42 per square foot without the electrical and plumbing. Crazy. A winter home for trees. Crazier still is that I will probably do it.
My daughter went to school to be a cosmetologist. That is all she ever wanted to be since she was a little girl. We convinced her to go to college, which only lasted one year and she failed miserably. So, we sent her to cosmetology school. She did fantastic. She got some dummy heads and wigs to practice on for school. Dress them up in hair and then cut it, style it, etc. Once she graduated, she began working on real people and is quite successful. Loves her job. Makes a living working about 6 hours a day. I never understood the satisfaction she got in using the dummy heads for target practice when we went out shooting one day until I started this hobby. (Sorry to those across the pond, as you don’t get to know that satisfaction in target practice.)
Just buy used pots, its cheaper than buying new ones dirtied up with trees.
Where is the logic in “I want you to grow so bad so I can cut you back and make it look like you didn’t grow?”
Why don’t they sell Bonsai Superglue on the internet?
How can you tell when you have crossed the line between enthusiast and addict? Number of trees? Number of empty pots? Or is it a monetary value divided by time duration type of equation?
Its amazing that I can do so much damage to a $60 pre-bonsai when I can’t kill my $10 big box store juniper. Sure, it might look like a damaged corkscrew having a bad hair day, but it is still living and healthy and growing.
Maybe I can start a new business, “Pre-Bent Bonsai Wire for the Beginner”
Patience - Waiting for the water to boil in a kettle. Bonsai Patience - Waiting for the Dead Sea to evaporate.
You sure are wasting a lot of time killing that one.
I truly feel sorry for a bonsai enthusiast that is also an athletics coach. “Why do I have to keep a good performer on the bench?”
Being in construction all my life, I got to thinking, I have three trees now. I should probably have a greenhouse to winter these things in. Three days of designing one and I realized that my house cost about $35 per square foot to build. My greenhouse is about $42 per square foot without the electrical and plumbing. Crazy. A winter home for trees. Crazier still is that I will probably do it.
My daughter went to school to be a cosmetologist. That is all she ever wanted to be since she was a little girl. We convinced her to go to college, which only lasted one year and she failed miserably. So, we sent her to cosmetology school. She did fantastic. She got some dummy heads and wigs to practice on for school. Dress them up in hair and then cut it, style it, etc. Once she graduated, she began working on real people and is quite successful. Loves her job. Makes a living working about 6 hours a day. I never understood the satisfaction she got in using the dummy heads for target practice when we went out shooting one day until I started this hobby. (Sorry to those across the pond, as you don’t get to know that satisfaction in target practice.)
