October 28, 2018. Eureka Springs, AR. Fade to Black

Last night was the final performance of the 2018 - Fiftieth Anniversary Passion Play season. It went by so quickly, it's hard to believe we have been in Eureka Springs the past 8 months and completed our fifth year of volunteering here. For what we thought would be a stay of a couple of months, it has turned out to be a "long term" mission trip. And now that we have decided to stay thru the winter it will be a continuing trip with no additional accumulation of miles.
There will be a host of things to do: Christmas tree and light displays, projects to renovate and update our facilities, Holy Land Tours, promoting and advertising the 2019 Passion Play season and working on ways to attract more youth/church mission trips to be part of our ministry here. But the outdoor set will not be a theater venue until mid-April, 2019. We will be working on construction projects, but the dialogue and musical background of the Play will be silent, the cast will be grateful for the break from the weekly regime, but soon become anxious to get back to it for another year. There's always that mixed emotion when we move from season to season in our life,
One aspect of this time of year which I don't look forward to is the inevitable return of the ladybug/Asian beetles. As we get one last surge of warm weather, the horde descends and finds any small entry point to invade our living quarters. The orange and black pests must be part of the Halloween season and they have started to appear over the past two days. With warm weather anticipated for the next few days, the pesticide, pill bottles and vacuum are at the ready and we will fight the good fight with hope that they will move out when the cooler weather moves in. I don't mean to be mean, but with more motor homes and campers around us this year than any past year, maybe the little buggers will not just concentrate on us, but visit our neighbors as well. Maybe someone else will come up with the cure and share it with us all, so we can enjoy a bug-free Fall. Help us, Lord


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