8:00 a.m., and I have slept in. We had many pit stops in Mankato yesterday and this morning when I lay in bed and moved a bit, I thought I deserved a day off from walking. Taking my time with my usual breakfast, I was still in my robe at 9:30 contemplating what to do with my free morning. Umph! 9:36 a.m. and I am out on the county road with my cell phone in one of my pockets and the second pocket was full of my bite sized tomatoes. Talk about ingrained safety nets in the brain. Yes . . . I should have been out earlier as it was rather humid. Thank God I didn’t have to pee right when I got back home as I would never have gotten off my sweat soaked shorts and underwear. I sweat like Dad . . . profusely.
Aunt Lorraine came from Arizona with software designs to share for the embroidery aspect of my sewing machine. I am accustomed to purchasing images online and downloading them directly onto a flash drive. All of Lorraine’s were on CDs. Umph! My laptop in the sewing studio is my go-to for tracking the sewing software and that no longer has a working CD unit. Best Buy was happy to sell me an external CD unit yesterday for $29.00. What better way to cool down for the afternoon than working with the images and moving them from the CD to a flash drive. It took a bit of puzzling and eventually I connected with the correct file formats and the slow process began.
I had my Bernina powered up to check my transfers. Never leave anything to chance. As my ole cowboy stated: “You may use one of the designs or all of them, you now have them at hand.” I did note one difference in her choice of software: in order to have the ability to change the size of an image either smaller or larger, one needs to purchase “Grade A” images or groups of such. All of Lorraine’s were “Grade C.” The collections that she was sharing had a choice of two sizes for each design on each each of the CDs. Very cumbersome and very limiting. I have taken a photo of each of the jacket covers and have done a printout of them per CD for a quick reference as to what the flash drive holds.
It’s a fact of life that if you don’t continue to grow in day-to-day experiences . . . as Nicholas would say “I guess I miss out.”