Yesterday morning, a group of 10 volunteers from the local carpenters’ union, organized by Dave and Diane Thomas of Harpursville, NY, donated their time and considerable skills to help us out with a number of home improvement projects. They replaced rotting boards on the fence along Route 79, the entrance to the Used Book Store, the deck of Sr. Sheila’s hermitage and the steps behind the Guest House. In addition, they repaired the dock, installed a storm/screen door on Fr. Dwyer’s former hermitage, which has been repurposed as a guest space, as well as a railing on the deck outside the kitchen door of the main building, and snow guards on the roof of the back porch. At the end of the morning, everyone enjoyed hamburgers and hotdogs, cooked by Diane outside on our grill, along with Diane’s homemade macaroni salad. We are very grateful to the entire crew, and to Dave and Diane for organizing the project!








How great though art – and the helpers sent. Do I see lab in the picture. Is this the newbie canine? Time to plan a time to visit and for prayer. Are you receiving guests as yet?
Actually, we’ve been receiving guests since last August, but until now, they have had to bring and prepare their own food, we’ve kept contact with them to a minimum, and we haven’t encouraged them to join us for prayers. As of May 1, we’re all fully vaccinated (it took awhile to get appointments), so we’re accepting guests who are also fully vaccinated as we did before COVID: we give them a main meal at noon, food that they can prepare themselves for breakfast and supper, and they may join us for the Divine Office if they so choose. We have not had daily Mass since our chaplain died last October, but most weeks we have a Mass one day/week with a local priest.
We look forward to seeing you again. And yes, the lab in the picture is Ruby, whom we adopted last July.
How beautiful! And so nice to see Ruby enjoying herself, too!
God bless you all,
In his Love,
Helen SLG
Good news. Thanks. Love, Val
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Sounds like a huge undertaking.Thank you for keeping me up to date..sounds like you might be inviting guests this coming summer
Blessings
Yes, see my reply to the first comment.
God is Awesome!! What a great job they all did and it sounds like you really needed those repairs! Trust in the lord He always comes through even though it may be the 11th hour or the 11th minute Love you all
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Wow! What a special group of volunteers! It is good to know there are kind people who are skilled and ready to do that work.
We need work done here and our talented person, who helped us for 20 years, died from Covid at age 60 on December 28, after being in a coma for three weeks. We miss Omar.
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With love, Bobbi
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This looks fantastic! Congratulations to the volunteers and community alike! I can’t wait to see for myself!
Nice blog post.😃 😎 2021-06-21 05h 51min