This weekend marked the 21nd annual Boar's Head Festival for our church and artsy community. For those of you just tuning in, The Boar's Head Festival is a musical and theatrical celebration of Epiphany--Renaissance style. Approximately 100 people: Adults, children, musicians and live animals fill our church to re-create a live nativity: Wisemen, kings, sprites and all. It also marked the second year we personally have been involved. Alannah and I sang in the choir last year. We did this year as well, adding Susie as "family gentry" and Dan as a shepherd. (He got to carry the dove and feed/brush the donkey, goats and chickens!) Three performances later it is Monday--everyone is back home and basking in post production glory. Thank you to Grandma and Grandpa for bravely dodging New England storms in order to get everyone back and forth safely and on time!
Who knows what will happen next year?
Aidan is under a lot of pressure to join in the fun--she IS accepting a lead in the Spring play at her middle school--she can't keep using the stage-fright excuse. Grandma Gray was campaigning for a choir-loft guest spot in "Gloria". Even Scott showed he could tend the donkey--like a pro: The donkey needed a little help after she helped out during the children's sermon Sunday. (trust me--you go through the trouble of driving to Goshen to rent a donkey for the weekend, you use it as much as you can!) After the children's sermon, the donkey was a bit keyed up. Scott volunteered to sit with the donkey so Pastor Mike could continue on with the service. He sat with her during the Joys and Concerns, and then walk her the long way around the sanctuary back to it's pen in the fellowship hall.
(Heh heh....I can just see/hear some of those Owego Presbyterians clutching and grasping....a live donkey living in the fellowship hall, walking through the sanctuary, eating hay off the choir loft steps!)
;) wink!
It is cold and blustery here, with a lot more snow expected Tuesday/Wednesday. All of the storms so far are blowing in up from the Long Island Sound--for once the Northwestern Mountains are not to blame. I learned this week that CT is covered by 4 different weather alert systems. We are "governed" by the agency that covers Albany, NY. (that is how close we are to NY.....) Our TV weatherman is always pulling his hair out because none of the weather services ever agree, and they never report simultaneously. In the end we just have to wait and see what happens. And stock up on milk, bread and toilet paper!
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