I started growing daylilies around 1992, and I liked them so much that I eventually removed my entire 1/2 acre vegetable garden, and instead planted just daylilies. Many friends came to see the daylilies, there were several newspaper articles about the daylilies, then, our daylily garden was featured on "Gardener's Diary" on HGTV in 2001. I became so much interested in daylilies that I served as General Counsel for the AHS from 2000 to 2005. My wife Diana and I ultimately founded the Cobb County Daylily Society, and I have now served two terms as President. Diana has served two terms as our Secretary. My wife Diana and I were married fifty-six years ago, on May 17, 1969, in Diana's hometown of Milbank, South Dakota. I would add that in 2023 Diana and I were awarded the ADS REGIONAL SERVICE AWARD FOR REGION 5. My hybridizing goals include creating completely new daylilies; Daylilies that are different from some we often see. We give considerable effort to converting diploid daylilies to tetraploid plants, and then crossing these converted, tetraploid daylilies with our own seedlings. The hope is to see new directions emerge in size, color, height and bud count.