Winter in the High Desert

The snows are such that we cannot get up to the hermitage property at this time. We have had more snow here than we have had in a number of years. In December we went up to the property after a snow and were able to place stakes where the entrance to the property will be so that we could get an address. We now have an actual streeet address for the property!!! We met with the architect, Terry Phelan of Living Shelter Designs on the feast of St. Antony the hermit and she presented us with the first scaled drawings for the guest hermitages. They will a real sense of solitude as each guest hermitage looks out on the desert and not on other hermitages. The hermitages will be nestled into the hill and so will be more easily heated and cooled. Our next stage is to get a perk test done and contact the septic system designer so that we can have all that ready to go when the ground thaws in the spring. Keep the prayers arising that we may be doing God's will and not our own and that God may be glorified by the building of the new hermitage.