January 17-23

This week’s “this week” is being posted from Portland, OR. We left Orcas on Saturday and are on our way to Ojai for a visit. It has been an intense few weeks setting up the Indralaya website for the 2011 programs and registration and getting the catalog completed. Online registration opened up on Friday and close to 40 registrations came in over the weekend.

Audrey

Petr

Petr Senkerick, Tom Long and Audrey Nedderman are taking care of camp while we are gone. Petr fixed an amazing vegan lunch for us in Spruce cabin on Saturday as we were preparing to leave. And Audrey did the dishes. Tom and Audrey were both on fellowship staff for extended periods last summer. Petr is a skilled craftsman and electrician who was on fellowship last summer and built the new woodsheds that can be found around camp.

Shared Housing

At the beginning of the week we noticed an unfamiliar, somewhat meandering pathway leading up to Kunz cabin from the waterfront. Upon examination, we realized it is a game trail, made by the daily passing of a family of otters who have taken up residence underneath the cabin. We were aware of the otters, as they had cohabited with Crystal Mossman, who lived there while serving as kitchen manager for the summer. It’s hard to miss their odor. We’ve now installed some otter eradication devices (bright construction lights actually) to try and coax the otters out from under the cabin.

otter meander