Sean went down for registration and to get his ID at Penn State yesterday. He will be taking basic Freshman courses plus a ‘required’ seminar class and gym class. His earliest class is the one he is looking forward to the most-‘Intro to Metereology’ at 8:30 two days a week. Now it will depend on this class (in my opinion) to see if he likes that as a major. His advisor said he could swing over to Environmental Science which would be minus some of the required math that his major has. He’s all finished at 2:20 every day.
He went to the mall afterwards, the same mall I use to hang out at when I was his age. Funny how things go in circles. His dad also went to that same Penn State campus. We’re thinking Sean could get a job at the mall. One day, I think it’s Tuesdays, he has to kill 3 hours between classes.
He seems optimistic about it all. It’s a 36 mile drive every day for him. He goes to school from August 30th-December 9th. Not too bad.

Just when I thought I couldn’t lug another watering can to another hanging planter, the skies opened up today. Thanks to my pal Charlotte who probably sent it our way from Ireland. She was talking about expecting rain there last week.
I love walking around in weather like this. It’s not pouring rain, we are having spurts of rain. I was hand pulling weeds as I walked around earlier as the earth was now damp instead of holding those buggers in like cement.
We went over to my father-in-law’s yesterday to give him some belated birthday gifts. When you don’t know what to get, get a basket of food. Older people love that. Brian had gone with me to the store and we picked out a few things we knew his dad liked but probably rarely bought as a treat. We all looked nice, I even wore a new aquamarine colored skirt, a neat crochet type top and pretty shoes and beads hoping we were taking his dad out to eat. No, as usual, he didn’t want to go out. We ended up at Boston Fart-ket, I mean Market ( that food made us so gassy) and we brought him a platter back and he ate all by himself. Dad-o was trying to push some 20 yr old Estee Lauder make-up off on me that had sat on the back of a toilet all those years. What a nice gesture, like I am only good enough to offer old stuff to, but he won’t say I look nice.
We also stopped in the 90 degree heat and bought him a large, beautiful pot of golden dahlias and a smaller pot of marigolds. Sometime this summer, we will paint the trim on his porch too. Our other gifts were a wheelbarrow and a shovel that dad-o wanted.
Later dad-o told Brian to go check out the ’tiles in the bathroom’. Hmmm….did he finally Mop&Glo the small floor? No, he got taken in by an infrommercial that was hawking tile restoring stuff. The damn grout he was restoring is suppose to be terra cotta colored! I don’t know if he ruined what he did or not but it has a milky white coating over it now. Instead of worrying about stuff like that, he should get his yard tidied up. Hire someone-save your money. Talk about eccentric.

Are there any types of designs that you won’t stitch?
Because I do charity stitching for Love Quilts, I have done almost every kind of design from Precious Moments to flowers. I think the Precious Moments are cute, but I wouldn’t do them for myself, maybe for Tori if she asked.
Computer generated charts can be the pits sometimes if the person who did the chart didn’t adjust the colors correctly. I bought one of Rose from Titanic on eBay and started to do her only to find that her face was gray! That was a waste of money. If I ever try to do the design again, I have a lot of color fixing on it.
I also probably wouldn’t do a design that I have seen dozens of times on the internet. I won’t name the designer, but these are usually of elegant ladies. If you love them and do them, that is wonderful, but I am quirky, I like things that are a bit different. At least do them on different color fabric than what the designer suggests or change the colors to make it your own.