January 23, 2012

January 16-22

As expected, more snow did fall as the week went along, though we escaped the ice storms that came further south in the Puget Sound area. The total snowfall was around 5 inches. The wind blew for most of the week as well and temperatures dipped into the high-teens Fahrenheit. This dose of winter weather led to a delay in the printing of the program catalog as the printer's offices were closed for most of the week. We hope that the catalog will be in the mail in the next few days.

Optimistic Crocuses

The weather also provided plenty of reason to stay inside working on updating the Indralaya website with 2012 program information and setting up online registration for the year. There are many links from one page to another and from the program information pages to the registration form, making this a rather meticulous and painstaking process. And despite the efforts made to be methodical, there are bound to be mis-connections and dead-ends that reveal themselves as the registration process gets underway.

Buddha field 7

So far, so good, however. Online registration opened up on Sunday and by the end of the day, close to 40 registrations had been received. With the beginning of registration, there are a few program notes that bear mentioning.

As has been done in past years, registrations for both family weeks are being held until March 15 so that everyone interested has a fair chance to register for these popular programs. If either week is over-booked (i.e. more than 95 people registered), then a lottery will be held to select those attending that week.

This year, registrations for the Deep Singing program will also be held to provide the same fair opportunity for people to express their interest in attending. The ‘hold until’ date for Deep Singing is March 1. If more than 95 people are registered at that time, a lottery will be held to determine who is registered and who is on the waitlist. For the Deep Singing program, registrations for local and day visitors are being limited to a maximum of twenty.

The Inner Temple Inner Convocation weekend with RJ Stewart and Anastacia Nutt, does not have a ‘hold until’ date for registrations and is expected to fill quickly. Maximum enrollment for this program is currently set at 50 participants and is already close to half full. If you are interested in attending this program, we encourage you to register sometime this week!

By the end of the week, the weather had turned more mild, and most of the snow was gone, allowing for a mid-January walk across the top of Turtleback Mountain.

Looking NE from Turtleback Mountain
(the forested knob in the distant center of the photo is Indralaya land)

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