Common Area Coming Along Nicely.

Have the ground cleared, the fire ring outlined with rocks, the grill in place and some lawn furniture scattered about - it's a start.  This will eventually make a nice meeting area with a trail leading back into the main woods.

The next workday is Saturday Dec 4 from 11am - 4pm, but feel free to come out anytime before that if you just want to help out.

New Common Area Under Construction

The new common area just behind the house is now under construction.  This will be a place to gather, cook out, hold meetings, and socialize.  I have started setting up the wood fencing and once the winds die down I will start clearing the area of leaves and build a stone fire pit. If anyone is free weekdays and would like to come help out, please do. Here are a few pics of the new area.

We Have Our First Group Area!

Yesterday members of the Order of the Standing Oak chose and cleared a designated area in Middleworld Woods for their group, assisted by Kate, John, and myself.  We got to meet a couple of new friends and finished up by cooking out and having some great conversation.  It is nice seeing the church grow - right now we have a dozen members and 3 groups in the church.

It does seem, however, that there are a few people out there who are busily making asses of themselves by spreading gossip, trying to tear other people in the Pagan community down and generally engaging in juvenile behavior fit only for those without any moral compass or basic sense of common respect.  These people will ALWAYS exist, and to be sure, will consistently go out of their way to disparage both individuals and groups with whom they have absolutely no ties, no information, no insight, and no knowledge about.  I'm sure by now that these same people have a word or sixty to say about our Church as well, and if that's the case. I challenge them to sit down at my table and face me one-on-one. I seriously doubt they will for that is NOT the way of cowards - and yes, that's all these people are - COWARDS.

Let them flap their gums. Karma has LONG ARMS, and there is absolutely nothing about our Church that is not totally above board and transparent to the general public.  When one has nothing to hide, one hides nothing.  Anyone who listens to the gossip and refuses to do their own research but swallows all of the senseless, selfish, unqualified and arrogant BS without question isn't the type of person we want in the Church anyway.  There are plenty of groups out there that cater to that kind of egoist drama - let them go indulge themselves as they see fit.  As for the rest of us - it's nothing but a thing totally unworthy of our time, attention, and effort.  Flush the toilet on the septic gossip and be done with it.


Here are links to BOTH of our registrations with the Secretary of State, proving that we are a legitimately recognized and current 501(c)3 Not For Profit Organization.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?2572582
https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?2572574

Trails Have Been Extended

2 side trails have been extended off the main trail. The first goes towards the back of the property through the back ravine, and the second follows the boundary fence with the CA heading towards the back of the property. It took me about 90 minutes to extend the trails a total of 200 yards using only a tree lopper.  We had a couple of small deer visit the trail this morning. (See above)

I'm going to start inserting short videos of what we've done at Middleworld Woods - nothing worthy of Spielberg of course - just very amateur video clips of the trails.  Hopefully I will have the first video posted this evening or by the latest tomorrow afternoon.  Keep watching, and I hope to see many of you tomorrow for the workday.

Have a great evening everyone!

Trails Update

I spent the afternoon clearing the side trail down to the ravine and clearing areas for 2 more campsites.  When John got home we walked about half the perimeter of the property bordering the CA and did a lot of the heavy lifting and clearing. There are 2 or 3 places where we are going to need to use the chain saw to clear, but clearing a path along the fenceline is going to be quite easy at this point.   We should be able to accomplish quite a bit this Saturday - hopefully everyone will bring some tools - tree loppers, rakes, etc...

I want to clear as much of the fenceline path as possible so that selecting group areas will be much easier.  Mark your calendars and I look forward to seeing you all this weekend.  Thanks.

Upcoming Workday Saturday, NOV 6 Noon-5pm

Looks like we are going to have a nice group this weekend to work on the woods.  The Order of the Standing Oak will be selecting their designated space this weekend as well - our first official group to claim space in Middleworld Woods.  This weekend we will provide a grill and charcoal for cooking out, but unfortunately everyone will need to bring their own Food/Drink - finances have been really tight lately. My apologies in advance.

I will be going out today and doing what I can to prepare and clean up the main trail a bit.  Will be taking the next couple of days after today to catch up on some reading for my Doctoral degree. 

The election was a bit of a downer with all the Republicans being elected to office, but the propositions and amendments all passed - the main cause I was rooting for was the elimination of puppy mills - I don't know about anyone else, but our animals are part of the family, and the horrendous conditions some dogs were forced to live in at some of these so-called "breeder farms" was inhumane.  I'm glad to see Prop B passed.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Of Weddings and Woods

Been busy the last week with a wedding at Drury Stone Chapel and that's been taking all of my time.  It went very well - I am very proud of the service we provided and Stone Chapel is absolutely beautiful. It was nice getting to see another Pipe Organ - this one was a 1906 Lyon-Healy - sounded awesome.

I listened to half of Pagan Perspectives yesterday when my computer went stupid again.. GRRRR.  I spend almost 25 minutes trying to get it to reconnect - finally had to just reboot and then it took forever. Come to find out there were problems with our provider but they are fixed now.  Still,  I hated not being able to stay the entire time.  Didn't want Tim to think I just got bored and left.

Just a reminder that this next weekend is a workday here at Middleworld Woods from noon to 5pm on Saturday.  Bring rakes, leaf rakes, tree loppers, pruners, chain saws, etc...  I walked the main trail yesterday - the woods are gorgeous right now. There's a lot of fallen leaves of course, but those are easily raked to the side.  I've cleared 3 campsites and 2 common areas so far.  The work isn't hard at all - it's just better when more than 1 or 2 people are trying to do it all.

It should be cooler this weekend (50s) but the forecast is for good weather.  I'm looking forward to this coming weekend.  Have a wonderful day!