Insider's Peek
It's that time of year again--time to prepare the dorms and surrounding areas for occupancy at family week! Only this year it isn't "family week" it's "family four days."
I optimistically began the task, thinking I could whisk through it in no time since all dorms were supposedly already prepared. Things like outside trash cans missing, inside trash cans missing, no bathroom wastebasket, here a sheet, there a sheet missing. . .quickly bogged me down. Then there was the curtain in one room totally missing from the window but conveniently propped up in the closet! Um, how did it get from the window to the closet?? And now one of the curtain fixtures is missing. . .
On to the men's dorm. Here I find in the lower guest hall a nearly full 5 gallon pail of acorns! accompanied by sling shots! Three guesses where those came from. I picked up the bucket, trucked upstairs and deposited it in DH's room. In addition to the acorns there was an antique fan (clearly a huge fire hazard) and a bucket of dry wall stuff (whatever they call that) and an accompanying tool. Maybe there was more work to be done on the drywall project somewhere but sometimes at Fairwood it seems like things get mysteriously "left" where the "other person" last used them and there they stay until some unsuspecting person comes along and either moves them or rattles the cage of the person responsible.
On down the hall. Here things look pretty good except for one rumpled up bed. Apparently some transient popped in, grabbed a couple of blankets for warmth and bunked down for the night! In the morning, they crawled out, left the blankets exactly as they crawled out of them and moved on. I just love cleaning up other people's messes, don't you? (Sarcasm drips, doesn't it?)
Back out to the fire escape porch addition. Here is the real fun. Two Bible School young men whose names shall remain unmentioned here, assisted in that major attic cleaning that I blogged about earlier this year! Unbeknownst to me, they "salvaged" some of the treasures! So on the lovely little fire escape deck, we have a box of 1970's stoneware green and gold dishes which have been pawed through and perhaps "choice" items removed, but the remainder sits in newspaper-wrapped glory, and a bit soggy for its exposure to the elements. There are also 2 trashy chairs, several large, heavy castors which no doubt could be used to make some sort of a lovely wheel about cart, and a smashed plate glass table top! Yep! There it was for all 10 of the little boys at Fairwood to play with. Apparently it had started leaned up against the dorm, but somewhere along the way it had blown over, been knocked over, pushed over or who knows what over and there it sat. I wonder how many people had seen it propped against the dorm and walked by with a "look the other way" attitude because they didn't put it there and it wasn't their worry. Clearly an accident waiting to happen!! I'd wring the necks of those young men if I could and maybe I will when I see them!
"If you see something that needs doing, it's your responsibility to do it" is a pretty difficult addage to follow, especially around here where there are a million and one things like this. Fortunately, in this case I had T to help me pick up the glass, sweep up the shards, etc. etc and haul all the other junk to the trash house or dumpster. She also fixed the curtain in Rm 4 in the Lodge Annex. Hooray for T!
I optimistically began the task, thinking I could whisk through it in no time since all dorms were supposedly already prepared. Things like outside trash cans missing, inside trash cans missing, no bathroom wastebasket, here a sheet, there a sheet missing. . .quickly bogged me down. Then there was the curtain in one room totally missing from the window but conveniently propped up in the closet! Um, how did it get from the window to the closet?? And now one of the curtain fixtures is missing. . .
On to the men's dorm. Here I find in the lower guest hall a nearly full 5 gallon pail of acorns! accompanied by sling shots! Three guesses where those came from. I picked up the bucket, trucked upstairs and deposited it in DH's room. In addition to the acorns there was an antique fan (clearly a huge fire hazard) and a bucket of dry wall stuff (whatever they call that) and an accompanying tool. Maybe there was more work to be done on the drywall project somewhere but sometimes at Fairwood it seems like things get mysteriously "left" where the "other person" last used them and there they stay until some unsuspecting person comes along and either moves them or rattles the cage of the person responsible.
On down the hall. Here things look pretty good except for one rumpled up bed. Apparently some transient popped in, grabbed a couple of blankets for warmth and bunked down for the night! In the morning, they crawled out, left the blankets exactly as they crawled out of them and moved on. I just love cleaning up other people's messes, don't you? (Sarcasm drips, doesn't it?)
Back out to the fire escape porch addition. Here is the real fun. Two Bible School young men whose names shall remain unmentioned here, assisted in that major attic cleaning that I blogged about earlier this year! Unbeknownst to me, they "salvaged" some of the treasures! So on the lovely little fire escape deck, we have a box of 1970's stoneware green and gold dishes which have been pawed through and perhaps "choice" items removed, but the remainder sits in newspaper-wrapped glory, and a bit soggy for its exposure to the elements. There are also 2 trashy chairs, several large, heavy castors which no doubt could be used to make some sort of a lovely wheel about cart, and a smashed plate glass table top! Yep! There it was for all 10 of the little boys at Fairwood to play with. Apparently it had started leaned up against the dorm, but somewhere along the way it had blown over, been knocked over, pushed over or who knows what over and there it sat. I wonder how many people had seen it propped against the dorm and walked by with a "look the other way" attitude because they didn't put it there and it wasn't their worry. Clearly an accident waiting to happen!! I'd wring the necks of those young men if I could and maybe I will when I see them!
"If you see something that needs doing, it's your responsibility to do it" is a pretty difficult addage to follow, especially around here where there are a million and one things like this. Fortunately, in this case I had T to help me pick up the glass, sweep up the shards, etc. etc and haul all the other junk to the trash house or dumpster. She also fixed the curtain in Rm 4 in the Lodge Annex. Hooray for T!
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