Third Saturday Workshop

The Zooming never ends... or will it?  Meanwhile, here is John's invite to the workshop...

      For a change, you Akadama Yokohama Mamas, you were right. Cataract surgery proved to be a nothingburger, aside from the preposterous 7:00am appt. time. Therefore, we will indeed have our workshop on 6/19/21 at 10:00am, since I can actually see better now than Monday--- fine , bright colors, marred only by my terminal astigmatism which causes Bruce to look like a mutant rutabaga on Zoom.

      Our project this week will be to finally decide on a design for Prez Sara's Eastern Leaf juniper, which, you may recall, has a fat trunk and great nebari but has never really revealed its final form. But it will on Saturday, OR ELSE. I will need your opinions on this work--- some serious decisions must be made. I will also wire the sucker, so be prepared to entertain each other during the inevitable lulls.

      We will also spend happy time discussing our show at Aki Matsuri on 9/26/21. Though I fully expected and profoundly hoped that he would decline the job, the wild and uncontrolled Markus Ackerson has agreed to be the tree wrangler this year. Yes, I know...... He is determined to have a "best foot forward" experience, which probably means that he will tell you and your so-called "Show Tree" to screw-off in a paper sack. This week, I will send out a more detailed message AND his berserk manifesto of what he wants to see from you. Though I expect our membership roll to largely disappear following this message, I am determined to let Mark be a hard customer this year. I have been too easy on you scum for a few years, and it's time for tougher standards to show our best stuff in the best way. Even our semi-beloved President has endorsed this hard-ass approach, so your pathetic whining will fall on unsympathetic ears.

       Further, the Prez Lady has demanded an Aki committee be formed to assure that our increasing physical infirmity will be overcome. The news of Ms Suzanne's brush with disaster was sobering to Dr Sara. We have, so far, the Succulent Senile Sensei, Mark the Shark, Skyhe King, and Fox-Fabian Philadelphia Funeral Finger--Thrower KeNN G. on board. Now, many hands make light work at Aki, so anybody who wants some crazed entertainment watching the club implode over the Draconian "Tree Rules", and wants to partake of copious lox and bagels on a fine Fall Sunday morning, please volunteer---- before I have to start threatening you with neutering.

       OK----- Saturday AM is ON, and any of our "girl singers" who know Margi Hendricks and the Raylettes' part to " The Night Time is the Right Time" can join me and my huge black sunglasses for a tribute to Ray. 

      Let's get with the dam program!!!

john   

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So here we have Egert-san wearing his post-cataract surgery shades, imitating Ray Charles.  Fortunately, the moment passed quickly and we got on to more serious matters of a juniper in need of styling.  

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Happy Juneteenth, everyone!