Happy Holidays

[plufim]

To all my bonsai & Internet friends . . .

Starting Friday we'll be down in St. Pete Beach for 11 days of
"babysittin" a 14-year-old grandson, an 11-year-old grandson, & a 3-year-old granddaughter while their parents spend the holidays with friends in Ireland (the Republic).

We leave behind a full-time house-bonsai-horses-cats-elderly aunt sitter.

I will have I'net access down there, but only via web mail -- which I dislike absolutely -- so I may not be on that often from
Friday through January 4, 200(unbelievably)5.

So please accept my early wishes for a very Happy Holiday and a wonderful (and wishfully) So far peaceful New Year. May your trees grow well and your collections stay manageable wherever you may be.

[eli_4life]

From "once boss" Jim -

I think you are going to have a grand holiday - and so are the grandkids, - one that I think you will never forget! Pack the camera, - and any calming music you can carry! We'll all be aware of your absence, once boss, always needed.
Politically incorrect, maybe, but I still say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

[Jenesri]

Thank you Jim. Though you're goin for a short holiday, I would miss your posts witch give ABLE GUIDANCE and MATURE ADVICE, and which I always look forward to. In addition to that as soon as I download the posts in Outlook Express, first of all I click
*Jim Lews* and read the contrents carefully!

On behalf of the members of Bonsai Club (India), I wish you happy time with your grand childsren. I also wish you *Merry Christmas* and
*Happy New Year*. May the New Year give you robust health and TONS of
HPPINESS with you plants.

Anil Kaushik
Bonsai Club (India)
Chandigarh "The City Beautiful"

[FlamencoLassie]

For this season, no mater where you're in the world might the zone you ocvcupy be 1 of bliss.

Thinkin of the diversity of just agricultural zones, let alone members of this group & they're types of planbts, we manage to share information in a loving & abruptly giving atmosphere. May this condition grow, develop and continue, as do your trees. May your thumbs always be green.

I never caeses to amaze me how as the saesons shift, we react as do our plants. That deep down inside, somehwere on a very primitive level, in this modern age of technology, the difference between light and dark matters. I don’t know if those of us with our fingers in the dirt feel this more strongly than those who dwell maiunly in glass and steel cages, but as I allow these feelings to slip into my more conscious level, I feel more alive. I revel in the glory that is nature.

Blessings upon all of you, your close ones and your little trees.