May 23, 2024

It started raining last night after we had all returned to the dorm and did not let up until this morning, then it started again.

The water table here in the delta is high, so it does not take a lot of rain to turn everything into Mississippi mud. Two years ago we put a picture of Noah’s Ark on our end of the week plaque.

So just about any work we do today is going to be inside. We typically take a half day some day during the week and go exploring the local cultural attractions, so the plan is to do some of that this afternoon. Tonight we will likely head into Clarksdale and catch some music.

But we have gotten stuff done this morning. JD examined my rotating sanders and declared that they have gone to sander heaven, so I have left them to him to canabalize and then told Ariel that it is all her fault. I will have to rely on the flat one for the remainder of the week. That has worked OK so far, and here is what I accomplished this morning.

OK, it does not look like much, but until someone comes up with a VR method of letting you feel stuff in a blog, you will just have to take my word for it. The walls are nice and smooth.

Ariel brought her daughter along again today. She is having fun and brightening the environment around here. I wish I could show you pictures because she is pretty cute, but you will have to settle for Dino pretending he is a scary monster. The rest of us do not find Dino all that scary, but perhaps kids do.

On House 49, they are finishing up the siding, but only in the area of the front porch. It is pouring outside right now.

Food once again is great. Wednesday is usually the day that Andy whips up one of his feasts, so last night he made green curry with all sorts of stuff that goes in it with brown or vermicelli rice. It might be a not quite up to Andy’s usual standards, as he forgot to bring coconut milk, and oddly enough, the local Dollar General did not have any. But it tasted good. This morning, Kristin made avacado toast and we still had lots of fruit left. Yum!