October 31 - November 6

frost on the cabbage

There were a number of things to attend to and follow up on in the wake of the annual meeting of the Indralaya board last week (see October 31). By mid-week things had settled back down, providing time for us to attend to looming piles of paperwork and begin some long planned overhauling of the filing system. Leonie spent several hours working in the archives, while I attended to the RMC office filing cabinets and various stacks of paper that had piled up over the course of the program season. By the time we were done, we'd generated a 33 gallon garbage sack full of recyclable paper waste!

Minor's desk (before)

Minor's desk (after)

On Sunday morning we joined Tina Rose at her home in Olga for a long-ago planned three mile walk to Doe Bay Resort and Cafe for breakfast. Tina has been the graphic designer for the Indralaya program catalog for twelve years now, since taking over from Carol Stanley in 2000. This was the initial meeting to begin planning next year’s catalog, which will be out in mid to late January.

Leonie & Tina, overlooking Buck Bay

As we turned into Doe Bay, it was a great pleasure to see Indralaya’s former resident managers Shandra and River Augenstein, along with their new born daughter Julia and River's mother, Marlene. They were also on their way to breakfast so we all had a chance to sit down together and catch up on happenings over a delicious meal. The most significant happening, of course, being the birth of Julia three weeks ago.

mother and child