It's About Time!

No blog since October 14. It's been a wild time here in the mountains. The weather has been various - enough snow for a snow-guesser winner (everyone picks a day for the first "official"snowfall, which is 1"on the ground at the weather station for 24 hours), but then it warmed up and rained and it all went away.

Halloween was great. Here are a some pictures:

We had a nice celebration of All Saints yesterday, with people telling their own saint stories for the sermon. Tonight we did El Dia de los Muertos for Vespers, and people brought mementos for an ofrenda we had in Koinonia. There were really a lot of things. One person mentioned how interesting it was that people carry these things with them even to Holden, where one tends to bring only essentials.

We had a whole slew of guests leave yesterday, and some wonderful staff today. We're down to about 50 people for the next two weeks, so it is very quiet. Should be nice.

I'll write a little bit every day this week, and may get the Old Miner himself to write his own update!