There are pics this week.

Eastwind East Coast Contingent

The Eastwind East Coast Contingent arrived Tuesday. In addition to Kathryn, there was Bert and Sabrina. Bert was attending the art workshop at University of Baltimore as an artist. His polyhedra were accepted in a peer reviewed exhibition. Sabrina was attending the art workshop. chief fundraiser (through Kickstarter), and driver.

The art workshop was about art and math. Bert is the inventor of several polyhedrals, including the one shown here. Bert was kind enough to donate this piece to us. We started things off with Danita’s famous spaghetti dinner. I didn’t see anybody holding back!

Playing with a Liquid Magnet

Wednesday Kathryn and I spent the day together. The weather was very nice — not too humid or too hot. We visited the local nature center and walked around one of the parks while Danita went to work. In the evening, we all went up to Baltimore to meet Mark and have dinner at the Blue Moon Cafe.

Ryn and Mark

Thursday Kathryn and I watched the 1940 movie “The Mark of Zorro”. It’s a surprisingly good movie and we both enjoyed it very much. After that we had a compare and contrast version against the 1998 movie with Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Eating Crabs

Dinner was steamed crabs. We didn’t have any idea where to go for steamed crabs. The people in the neighborhood I asked didn’t know either. We finally decided to go to a place about 12 miles down the road. It was terrific. They said the crabs were “medium”, but we would call them “large”. Danita and Kathryn couldn’t eat a dozen. We took several home. (I had a shrimp salad sandwich.)

At the Aquarium

Friday Danita took off of work. We spent the morning visiting the aquarium. This was the first time we have been to the aquarium since they finished all the renovations. We spent the entire morning, then had lunch at their cafe, then spent another couple of hours.

Virtual Reality at the Art Sow

Then we took the free Baltimore “Circulator” bus to the University of Baltimore and visited the art show Bert was in. We saw some amazing work, including some virtual reality gogles. These put us in the middle of a piece if art, looking out. It was unnerving moving our heads around, looking at different parts of the artwork. For dinner, we had some very excellent BBQ pork.

Sump Flow Switch

Saturday, we solved a plumbing problem. Actually, Kathryn did most of it, but she let me do enough of it to use the word “we”. When I installed the backup sump pump, I had the workmen install a flow switch. The idea was that the back up pump makes almost no noise. If the backup pump started leaking, the flow switch would sound a beeper and I would know it’s throwing water out the yard. Unfortunately, the flow switch didn’t work. I finally found a good flow switch, and it came in this week. Kathryn re-did some of the plumbing and installed the new switch. Everything worked perfectly the very first time. After that, we went out to watch the new Mission: Impossible: movie, which was quite good. We had Ed, Lynne, and Bud over for dinner last night. We ate an excellent beef tenderloin dish, along with home-made deserts.

Tonight the Eastwind East Coast contingent re-gathered at our house to travel down to “Acorn”, another community in Virginia. Kathryn deboned a chicken. Danita stuffed it with her famous stuffing  and served an amazing dinner. In addition to the deserts Danita has already made, Kathryn contributed some of Baltimore’s famous Berger cookies that Mark had given her. (We made sure Kathryn had plenty of Berger cookies for the road.) There was so much great food, we were eating like kings. Danita said she’s getting me ready for the cruise. I say the cruise is going to be boring after this.

I hope this finds everybody doing well.