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Road danger just north of Holy Souls Mountain. Rock slides!

Typical. This happens all the time on I-40, hailed as the road that money built, that politics built, amidst the clamor of engineers that such a road was destined to perpetual catastrophe of rock slides. Indeed. Two more slides happened this … Continue reading

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Dangers on the road to Confession

Time for Confession, according to my New Year’s resolution not to ever go more than two weeks without this great sacrament of our Lord’s goodness and kindness. The Holy Souls Mountain waterfall was behaving itself, even after the days of … Continue reading

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No progress in plugging up the wide open to cold opening in the walls of the hermitage today…

The sunset at the end of another day on Holy Souls Mountain: Not much accomplished today with building the hermitage. There were many but very wonderful distractions, including the packages from the Tyburns. I’m still waiting for a certain package … Continue reading

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Road danger on Holy Souls Mountain!

This log smashed down on the road from the cliff above. Heads up when driving on this road! More Fall colors…

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It rained! Worse danger on Holy Souls Mountain — Yikes!

This washout is about four feet deep. Jenny the Jeep might be able to plow through such challenges, but I wonder about lesser vehicles. I wouldn’t trade the ride for anything. The road to heaven is filled with obstacles ready … Continue reading

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More road danger on Holy Souls Mountain

The rains encouraged the ruts in the road to grow enough to grab tires and throw vehicles off into the — at this point — 100 foot deep ravine. I encourage all leaf lookers lurking for leaves to be careful!

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Danger coming to Holy Souls Mountain: The Leaf Lookers Lurking for Leaves are coming!

They don’t look at the road, or take note of the cliffs and ravines, just the leaves. What a fright!

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More danger on the road of Holy Souls Mountain

If the road is this steep and this narrow and this difficult just to get to Holy Souls Mountain, immagine what the road to heaven is like. That Way departs from hell to go upwards, steeply, vertiginously, on the most … Continue reading

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Trouble with internet yesterday: Trucks, Wreckers, Rand-McNally

Not much posting yesterday. The Verizon was low to non-existent. So, I went down the mountain a bit to get a better signal, only to find a disaster on this most roughest of mountain roads: The one car width wide … Continue reading

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