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No one is exempt from the work. Both Vladikas are cancer patients, and both are over 70, but the potholes still need to be filled.

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[pboisei]

Working on shabbos? thats a no no. lol

[allsaintsmonastery]

@pboisei Can you recommend a "renta yenta" service???

[Bear5177]

Looks like a long dirt road to the monastery. Is it in the country?

[allsaintsmonastery]

@Bear5177 90km from Vancouver, in an are that consists in 40-100 acre farms. The monastery has 40 acres Our private road is over 1000ft long.

[plumjam]

May the Good Lord one day grant you a wheelbarrow :-D

[allsaintsmonastery]

@plumjam Ah well, a brother monastery invited us to bring our shovels and do their road also. Hopefully, they were also being only playful.

[katherine3486]

May your visitors help with everything! I pray God will send you some!

[tmccloughlin]

God bless the work.

[plumjam]

@allsaintsmonastery Understandably they couldn't help but admire your natural drive.

[plumjam]

@allsaintsmonastery

Thanks, I was being somewhat playful in my response ;-) though you probably discerned that.

I have enjoyed your Youtube submissions. I'm not really a Christian, but if I was I would choose Eastern Orthodoxy. I'm familiar with things like the Jesus Prayer, Mount Athos, Theosis and the like. These are all wonderful things. I feel some commonality with you in that I was a monk myself (albeit just a novice for a few years) in a different kind of order.

[syonnain]

I’m so sad to read that you have health problems. I’ll keep you and Vladika Varlaam in my prayers.

[blackbette07]

You must get alot of rain. Is the area kind of like Seattle WA constant rain?

[ioannismiami]

A monastery drive that I worked on often was a challenge like the one at All Saints. Rock dust seemed to form sufficient hardening and durability to make the 2 mile-long driveway easier to manage. I priced a couple Vancouver area suppliers on-line this morning for rock dust prices, which range from $24.00 to 30.00/1000kg. It would take 5.7 m3 to cover every 30.5 m. [3 m. wide] with 5 cm deep. I will write more via email later today.