Shifting Gears Again

The ceiling looks big now in the East Side Dining Hall.

The ceiling in the ESDH is almost all the way ready for the guys that come in and add texture.  It just needs a light layer of mud over the whole thing to help level it out for us.  So now we've moved on to the next project.

With the sudden change in weather it was pleasant to go outside for a while.  The deck on the back side of the Johnson's house has been in an ever failing state of disrepair.  It's finally time to rip it up.  Here's the progression throughout the week:

It's fun to whack at these boards with our sledgehammers.

Half done.  Some of the boards were so wet that when I hit them they'd splash.

You should notice both of the satellite dishes are gone now.

We even took the paneling on the 3 seasons room.

This is one of the 4 or 5 loads of dead porch we brought to the burn pile.

This is one of the satellite dishes.  It was easy to track it to the maintenance yard.

The satellites are an interesting story.  There were two of them attached to the porch.  Back in the day they were used to track down signals that were then fed to all of camp.  This was the only way to watch most channels for years.  Now these giant dishes have been replaced by tiny dishes on almost every staff home.

Thursday and Friday were the staff retreat down in Frankenmuth.  Then Saturday Mike Alchin hosted several guys that came to cut down dead trees in the north woods.  I spent most of the day with them before spending a little bit of time at the lake.  The warm weather thinned the ice down to an inch or less except at the edges where it was straight water.

You can see the path that Kevin blazed over to the East Side Waterfront.

Titus Brown, Kevin Pierpont, and Jen Boeve all took the opportunity to jump in the water.  I chose to roll out, trying to get back to Battle Creek at a reasonable hour.  Then I spent Sunday at Garrison Hills, including an afternoon showing of Courageous.  I'm looking forward to a couple weeks of catching up with Battle Creek.