New additions...

Mark and I went to the Mary Kendall Campus of Kentucky UM Homes for Children and Youth in Owensboro a week ago for their annual auction day.  Needless to say, we had an awesome time and picked up a couple of goodies for Anam Cara!  The stained glass cross hangs on the main level in the center window pane of the great room, while the popcorn popper is in the fellowship hall in the lower level.  I've already put the popcorn popper to use when our work team from Lawrenceburg UMC was here and got a little carried away...we had popcorn coming out our ears!

Our first team work day!

 The Lawrenceburg United Methodist Church confirmation class, mentors, and parents arrived at 9:30 Saturday morning and put in a hard day's work!  We had a stone removal/hauling crew to line the path and the outer ring of the labyrinth, a crew hauling cedar chips, a chain saw crew, and a crew fastening cedar stumps together for the labyrinth outline.

 The original path was way too steep.   Thanks to Lance and his chain saw we made a detour through the woods which required the removal of some downed trees and the wood was used for more cedar stumps in the labyrinth.  By the time 3:00 pm rolled around we were absolutely beat, but everyone still had enough energy to hike down to Eagle Creek.

Thanks again Lawrenceburg UMC!  We couldn't have done it without you!

Our labyrinth begins to take shape!

My original plan was to put a full sized labyrinth on the south lawn, but Mark convinced me it was too close to the road. We walked through the woods and found this spot along our trail. We decided it would make a wonderful station for our woodland prayer walk. After clearing the ground, I used a stake and a rope with knots tied at varying intervals to mark out concentric circles using a can of spray paint. As the sun began to set, we were able to decide where the western entrance to the labyrinth would be located.

On Saturday, the confirmation class from Lawrenceburg United Methodist Church in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky will be out to help us complete the labyrinth by picking up wood, hauling wood chips to fill in the labyrinth, and outlining the exterior of the labyrinth with rocks.




Once the circles were drawn, I marked the turns in the labyrinth with rocks and then spray painted the whole design on the ground with an outdoor spray paint.

We started by placing our cedar stumps around the design to get an idea how many stumps we would need and then I began connecting the stumps in about two foot sections by stapling them together with a heavy gauge wire.