Dinner Contributions

Although Andy takes great pride in his culinary skills, he would like it known that he does not do all the cooking on his own. Last night Maryse put a great deal of effort into making eggplant Parmesan for dinner.

Signs

We usually take a half day off during the week and explore the local area or something, so that is what we are going to do today. We also put up a sign celebrating another year.

The dorm is covered with signs, t-shirts, and all sorts of assorted paraphernalia memorializing their visit. For groups who show up repeatedly, or annually as we do, they can start to take up a good amount of space. The largest one is probably about 3′ x 4′ and takes up a considerable amount of the ceiling. The group from Urbanna High School has also been showing up for years, and has added another two-foot letter to the ceiling every year.

We long ago took over the wall adjacent to the bathroom and had to move to another wall. This required us to move a sign or two, specifically the ones from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, but we were nice and reinstalled it on the ceiling around a number of their other signs.

In recent years, (well actually not all that recent, as it is about the past ten or so,) the multitalented Andy Thomas has designed and made our signs. Often they reflect what kind of work we have done during the week, so we have signs made of vinyl siding, dry wall, lumber, floor tile, and whatever else we might have used, or they reflect events of the week, like the one with a picture of Noah’s ark to commemorate the year it rained all week and we slogged through mud all week.

Last year, Andy came up with a special creation in honor of our 20th year down here, but he didn’t finish it before we left, so we all signed it before we left and he took it home to complete.

It has now been properly installed.

So now it is time to work on this year which will contain a blade from one of the ceiling fans.