Thankfully my hub's doing better today; it's been a long week. Here are a few pics; if you go to the album; they start with the thumbnail below. Yesterday (day 22) they had the day off. From trailrunner Lined up at Southport NC ferry to Ft Fisher. taking tomorrow off. just rode 80 mi avg 13 !!! camping at Carolina St Park 5/18/11 From trailrunner Much needed break 5/19/11 From trailrunner Surf City NC beach campground Lagunitas 5/20/11 From trailrunner

I have taken quite a few classes at QU and I like it very much. Yes, I thought it was extremely worthwhile. All of the classes that I took were really great - instructors did an excellent job of explaining and answering questions. I posted lots of pictures and got good feedback. I liked the flexibility it afforded me (not sitting in a classroom all day on a Saturday) and I liked the fact that if I didn't have the same question as another student I could just not read the discussion on that topic, it didn't "waste" my class time. I thought the price was well worth it. Yes, you can save the lessons to your computer to refer back to at any time. The classes that I've taken... let me see designing your studio landscape quilting hawaiian quilting beading combing through your scraps flower power and I know a few others but I can't think of them right now. I really liked all of my classes. Susan Brittingham is a particularly good instructor as is Nancy Chong (great for applique). The only class I didn't love was combing through your scraps. It doesn't look like that is offered anymore. Part of the reason I didn't like it was my mistake - I took it when I was starting out quilting and I didn't have a big stash so I had to go out and buy lots of fabric to have a stash to comb through! I had one major question that I wanted answered that had to do with rotary cutting and the instructor couldn't understand what I was asking no matter how hard I tried to describe my issue. Luckily, another student understood my question and explained what I was doing wrong and solved my problem for me - so ultimately it was successful. I would encourage you to take a class. I also think it would be fun to take a class "with" other friends from this forum. Lola

Nik - because of massive historic flooding of all of our local towns in the late 19th century (mostly local creeks taking over their "flood plains" where people had put towns), and the first half of the 20th, our infrastructure is in pretty good shape to prevent flooding. Also the cities - my town had crews out clearing flood drains and gutters several days before our deluge was predicted to start. We had no flooding, although some trees did fall over and block roads, etc. They were weakened by the long drought I presume. The areas which have bad flooding are usually the ones which get a huge amount of rain where it is not usual for that to happen. There have been some deaths in CA lately because idiots "drive around the FLOODED - ROAD CLOSED barriers", and drown in their cars, or trying to escape from their cars. Jackie

FORSYTH VIVACIOUS: Rich red and as the day progresses, the edge becomes pink/white ENCHANTING ESMERELDA: Hardy but slow to increase ROCK CANDY: Prolific bloomer. The color seems muddy to me. It does have great plant habit. FASHIONAIRE (Bennett intro) ONCE OVER LIGHTLY (Bennett intro) BLESSED ART THOU: Another great northern plant FLYING DOWN TO RIO: Very tall.DRUID'S CHANT: I bought this one when I visited Darryl Apps when he was still in NJ. Quite an overwhelming sight to see 10 acres of daylilies. Darryl was a gracious host and spoke with everyone. He had quite an impressive operation. That is all for me for today. Time to spread some pollen before the rains.