Quotes for the Day 2/7/2012

All from one day at school--

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Wendall, (sniffing the air in the typing room where I was burning a scented candle):  It smells like Tom and Dan's in here.  It's not the tire smell.  It's the smell in the part where you pay.

(I suppose the association with the tire repair shop made the scent a trifle more tolerable for a freshman male.)

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Alisha (who must have felt more trepidation than I knew about the typing exercise: Creating templates.  After checking her file to see if the "Save" function had worked--) :  It's on here!  Oh my word.  That is so incredible.

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Overheard in the lunch line: a detailed description of a really cool bathroom rug that turned red wherever your feet touched it, right after you stepped out of the shower, giving a bloody-footprint appearance.  The recitation ended with this announcement:

Jordan:  I'm going to get one of those for my kids because of all the childhood memories I missed out on.

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The next bit of information I overheard began with this disclaimer:

Darren:  Well, this isn't about blood or anything . . .

(I presume this was an apology of sorts, for not holding forth on a more exciting topic.)

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From the mother who provided hot lunch--

Rhoda Y.:  Are you having the food production class this year?

Me:  No.  We had too many other competing classes running.  We'll run it again though, when it comes up in the rotation.

Rhoda Y.:  That was a big help to us in our gardening.  We've been starting our own plants ever since Seth was in the class.  The plants are so expensive to buy--a lot more than they were in Missouri.  This year I'm planning to start my flowers for the back yard.  You gave me some ideas and I've done some of my own research . . .

Mr. Schrock:  Do you start them indoors or do you have a little greenhouse?

Rhoda Y.:  We start them in the basement.

Me:  Doing it that way involves some initial expense, but you can use the setup a long time and save money every year.

Hearing from Rhoda made me eager to get on with the next class, and fortified me against some of the inevitable "too-much-work-and-money" complaints that are sure to surface.  I do plan to use an extension service publication as the basic text, which should cut down on the paper shuffling necessary in the past when we gathered the materials from a variety of sources.  It's a guide to gardening in Kansas, recently updated by  the now-retired K-state vegetable specialist Charles "Chuck" Marr.  He's always been one of my favorite speakers at the annual "Gathering for Gardeners" event.