My Dad went to be a mentor at an elementary school yesterday morning, so he didn't come here. I went in with Ray, so I could go to class without driving the truck. He was just barely there on time. I went over to the Tate Center to see about renewing my passport. Oddly enough, they can do it for a 5-year passport, but not a ten-year one! That's okay, because they charge something like $25 over and above the passport fees. They could take my picture, which was the part I needed. Now I just have to mail it myself and hope I don't do anything wrong to slow the process.

Then I went to the library. They have been expanding for months--lots of men in hard hats, yellow tape, big trucks and occasional noise. Now they have finished the first phase and we can go in the front door again. There are some library tables and chairs with a view, and 60+ computer stations in a huge room. They were pretty much all in use. At least one person was playing solitaire on a big screen. I did some of my reading for my classes on my iPad and picked out a few books for fun. I took myself to lunch at Loco's, eating their Rooster salad, yum, and reading my email.

I was early to class and it went well. We received our first papers back, and mine said excellent. I do feel like I talk more than the other students. Mary is a few years younger than me and she talks even more.

Ray met me at the Institute and we drove home together. It was hot and we studied the forecast. Isaac may not be coming our way after all. We had hoped for rain. He went out and mowed as it got a lttle cooler. I made supper, but waited to eat. I decided I really need to put in the plants I had bought before the rain (in case we got it). It was really hot and humid and I couldn't dig because the dirt was too hard. It's a catch-22, because I want to plant them before the rain, but the ground will be softer after the rain. It turned out they were badly pot-bound, just a mass of roots and very little soil. They probably won't live. Moral of the story: don't buy half-off plants from a nursery going out of business.