The Malibu Orchid Society is all about orchids, but also we are about gathering to share in orchid knowledge and socialize with friends, which is why we serve refreshments.  We need to talk food - food,  glorious food!  Members have been bringing their food donations for over 40 years - wonderful goodies, some homemade, others store bought, and even some indiscernible snack creations brought in by bachelors. 

But last month no one brought a thing.  Cec Schulman scrambled to the market to buy cookies for the refreshment table.  Board members surmised at our latest meeting that it might be time to dispense with refreshments, if members do not show the initiative in providing refreshments and help with serving.

We lack a refreshment chair; the new reminder post cards aren’t working; and the poor excuse for coffee, which represented my attempt to make coffee at recent meetings, has some members recalling similar “coffee” served in the military.

We will be scaling back on refreshments this month, and await feedback and  new developments or suggestions.  I hope this plea will serve as an impetus for members to come forth and volunteer,  and that it will also serve as a reminder to bring in your food when it is your turn. 

See you on the 19^th,