Turkey Day at the Mill House!

Happy Thanksgiving to our Mill House Friends and Family! Thanks to all of you who joined us for our annual Mill House Thanksgiving Lunch. Even though we had about 40 people show up to help us eat the bountiful feast Members and staff had fixed up, we still had a counter and refreigerator full of leftovers (see Lise and jazz hands for visual). We are so grateful for everyone's participation. Mill House members did a phenomenal job preparing for this event, engaging our guests, enjoying the food, AND, instead of taking turns passing out on our solitary couch like we all wanted to do, we jumped right in after the meal to do dishes, sweep, and mop, albeit a little more slowly than usual. Take that, triptophan!

"Mellifluous Verbiage" (Fancy Vocabulary)

Paul G. wrote a lovely article. He uses a lot of mellifluous verbiage that I like. (Mellifluous verbiage = fancy vocabulary)
The Mill House had a pleasurable extravaganza on November 12. We saw a movie at Short Pump’s theater. Then we ate dinner at Fuddruckers. We spent the evening laughing ebulliently. The staff gave us an option to see four movies. We decided on three movies: “This Is It”, “Astroboy”, and “Men Who Stare at Goats”. I saw “Men Who Stare at Goats”. It was an Army movie starring George Clooney and Jeff Bridges. They did more talking than fighting throughout the movie, but they didn’t jibber-jabber. The movie lasted about two hours. Then we went to eat at Fuddrucker’s. It was a stylish restaurant which served burgers. We had about an hour to chat about silly things like “superpowers”. Afterwards we ate burgers and chicken tenders. As we were waiting for our rides, we played board games at The Mill House. We played Connect Four and chess.

Lunch time Diversions!

Chess & Connect Four

We are playing chess during our eating hours. It is really great there to play it. Joshua and Paul play it; and sometimes Joshua and R. J. play it also. Sometimes Raymond plays it with Joshua. Paul wins, Joshua wins, and R. J. wins most of the time.

We are also playing Connect Four during our eating hours and it is really fun to play it. Frank plays it with a bunch of people and he wins most of the time. Sometimes, Joshua wins and Anna wins while we are playing Frank. A bunch of people play it with Frank and he wins most of the time, but sometimes he doesn’t win all that much.

We have a great time playing these games.

Halloween at The Mill House

We ate "bloody rats" for lunch on Halloween. We also ate "slime" & "brains". It was delicious even though it was funny-looking. Paul dressed up as a pimp. I forgot to wear my jester's hat, OOOOOPS! We had a good time.

The Mill House Has Two New Members!

Mill House Blog: New Members
Presently The Mill House has 39 members. Two people just joined The Mill House. Their names are Beth Morgan & Kelan Uzzle. Beth graduated from John Tyler Community College. She is a good listener & very caring. She taught preschool & worked at Bank of America. Kelan is from Richmond. He graduated from Virginia Tech. He is 24 years old. He is very interested in informing people about his accident (he was injured in a bus accident 12 years ago). Kelan did not work before his injury. He likes to play video games, watch the TV show “Hunting”, & listen to country music.

Fun with the Mill House Camera

We were taking pictures of members and staff working in The Mill House... this is our favorite.

Camp Bruce McCoy 2009

Camp Bruce McCoy 2009
Well we went to the Camp and they had changed our cabins around to new places than they were last year.
We had the eating in the morning around about 8:15 am then we did our two activities before lunch. We then did our last activity before we had dinner around about 6:15 pm and we did some other things like we had a person come over once a week to talk about brains and our heart before dinner. We had two dances each week that we went there and we sang on the second dance every Thursday. I sang the second week the song was something I cannot remember but it was great.
Then at night I played some poker games, a game called Spit, and a game called BS. I think I played War once too. Then I went to bed around 1:15 am and I had to get up about 7:05 to get ready for the day. On Saturday we went to go see a movie that was called, the riddle of the Sphinx, and I can’t remember what the first part was but it was great and a good movie. Then we came to a store to eat and it was great and good. On Sunday we had some Papa John’s pizza for lunch I think.
Then the last day my sister came to get me and my dad had had an accident at work on Friday and he is still in the hospital and I am worried about him.