Decisions

After travelling the world as export manager, and looking for orchids, the company that I was associated with insisted I move out of Southern California to North Carolina.  I was besides myself.  What was I going to do and how was I going to leave family and beautiful So California. 
I discussed this with Jim, who was a very good friend at the time, and said "what am I going to do?" I have no one in No. Carolina, just business friends and where would I live.  He promptly suggested we build a house together and I said "O.K." I thought I could stall, but pressure was mounting.  So as not to lose my position, I decided to move lock ... stock and orchids.  Other plants I gave away, but orchids were my babies, and I was going to take them.  The percentage of the orchids surviving in a closed moving van cross country was really slim.  Keeping fingers crossed.
The house was ready, so the fatal day arrived for me to leave.  Was I sad, yes, still could not believe I was making this move.  Five days later, the moving van arrived - the first thing I looked for were the orchids.
Happy to report they all made it.  In fact, I still have most of the original ones.  I was worried they needed water, but Jim told me not to worry, orchids do not need water except once a week and depending on the heat, maybe every 10 days.