Yep 7 hours. I leave tomorrow a.m and will travel as far as I can go. Which needs to be 4.5 hours to Wayne where I'll meet Dave at his father's house. Then we'll either follow each other to the campground (2 more hours) or we'll leave Dave's car and go together in the truck. Which means in 2 weeks at the end of Dave's vaca time then I'll either come all the way back here to P.I. or just to Wayne again. So many decisions still.

I heard from Colin this a.m. He's struggling with the state of PA. Evidently it's boring. He took more time off and went with his friend to Ocean City NJ. to the beach. This is the trip that never ended. I think he'll regret it if he doesn't finish up. Children jeez

So in reaction to our having watched the movie Calendar Girls my knitting group is going to do a calendar. We've each chosen month in which we feel a photo would reflect our personality or "who we are". No nudey stuff! Get your minds out of the gutter! I will be June because I prefer warm weather and gardening is my favorite thing to do. so I need to start a summer knitting project to b e shown in my photo. My friend Brenda is spearheading this project. She's extraordinarily creative and adds so much to whateer we chose to do as a group project. Each year we choose one local project to do in December. We've done preeemie birth hats and Kemo Caps. Those were fun becausewe could be as cretive and wild as we wanted. This year will fill a need but won't be as much fun. We're making 18 X 18 blankets for the cage bottoms of cats and dogs at the shelter. The blankets go home will the pets when they are adopted.

Yes, it's hard to believe it's been a year already. It was so much fun.

Patti, it sounds like you've made some kind of decision then--you're staying in Presque Isle? Sounds like that's what you want, so I'm glad things are falling into place.

My nephew came from Israel again, but only for a week this time. He had another appointment at the Immigration Dept. today. This time it went well! He got his certificate of American citizenship. We were so relieved! We were afraid that awful immigration officer would make problems again even though we had all the right papers this time. Luckily, he wasn't there, and we had a lady who was really nice and barely checked all the things he had asked us to bring. We just had bad luck last time. Anyway, it's done and he's going back to Israel on Friday.

7 hours to your camper?? That's a lot to travel back and forth. You might not even need summer clothes. I actually have shorts with a fleece on...its been crazy weather here. Rainy, cloudy, sunny, thunderstorms, back to sunny, etc....for the last 4 days. There is a rainbow that I can see over the field across the street. I love rainbows...Hopefully, warm, clear summer weather is coming soon. I know what you mean about the lawn....every time I think I can go out and do ours it starts raining again. Neil wants to go out and plant more in the garden, we'll see! I haven't heard from Karen yet! Its alumni weekend here this next weekend. My sister is coming down to spend a couple of nights here so she can help work on their float. Can you believe that its been a year already since we all got together??

I need to get my act together to go to NH to the campground. Dave filled the back of the truck with stuff for the camper like hoses electrical that stuff. but I haven't done much about my clothes and toiletries. I have a hard time making that clothing decision. What summer stuff do I want down there and what do I leave here. I don't like to drag everything back and forth. I have no serious thought of how long I'll be in NH this summer even it though last year I spent most of the summer there. I really like my summer life up here, it's so nice to be outside without a parka! The cost of gas and the 7 hours drive really make coming home sketchy.

Dave is still doing his housing move again so it's possible that we'll be coming back up here in 2-3 weeks to pick up furniture to move into his "hew" home. He's looking at both apartment dwelling which I'm opposed to and buying a cheap fixer upper in Hamden. If he bought the house then we have a yard and privacy and space. I like the idea of that much more than obliging us to pay rental that gets us nothing in the end. Nothing we can re-sell or use for income ourselves as a rental if Dave ever retires.

He has settled into the idea that we're staying in P>I> for the time being. It makes it easier on me when he has stopped encouraging me to look at housing down there. We're getting along better without that added pressure. Even bought a riding lawn tractor this past weekend. So I have a nifty bright red Toro tractor. What a time saver that is. I have a neighbor who is going to keep our lawn mowed while we're away and another who is going to bring the mail in and keep my house plants watered.

I was also wondering what those 7 words were. I can't imagine anything THAT terrible.

At age 71 George Carlin has passed away. He may be most famous for his 7 dirty words routine. Other than the original listeners in the audience does anyone actually know what the words were? Apparently there are 3 that are so awful they cannot be uttered to this day. I find that interesting given the ****&&^%## that one hears in film today. Sadly in my classroom too, though rarely.

You're right, Kathi. I just need to let out some steam once in a while!