“How many Lutherans does it take...” begins the old joke, and for time it seemed like we were in the middle of that joke as folks tried to string lights on the Norfolk pine in Hörmann Courtyard.

There were five strings of lights, but only one really worked. On three other strings only half the lights worked, and the fifth string didn’t work at all. After ten different people tried to fix it, we ended up combining the working parts of two strings. Here Teresa McCreary and Randy Castello finish up stringing the lights.