26⁰F ESE11mph. SR0550(0650DST) SS1828 (1728DST)
Morning Offering given
LaCrosse is quiet
Sitting in urgent care program lot. Waiting for Amish couple and baby. Baby is ill… my guess RSV or Whooping cough.
Slow night here, hoping this isn’t a long wait.
Another call for baby… the man will have to take this one.
I left home without reading glasses… igloos are good, I picked a pair up at Kwik Trip. Also left without hearing aids those I can’t get at convenience store.
Know you are prayer for.
19°F WNW9mph SR050(0650DST) SS1825(1925DST)
Morning Offering given
Village dark, nothing moving
coffee okay
Deepest sympathy to the Kate Schmid family. Kate was another of my cmom friends who started the next phase of her journey to Christ. Please pray for the repose of her soul and peace for her family. A candle has been lit in her memory at the OLG Shrine in La Crosse
Lent… howed it go for you?
Steady day ahead for me. Am looking forward to tomorrow.
Know you are prayed for.
She passed from this life to the next.
May she rest in peace.
May her family find solace.
A candle has been lit for her at the OLG Shrine in LaCrosse, WI.
22°F W16mph SR0552(0652DST) SS1824(1924DST)
Morning Offering given
Village silent, sleeping… no DST lovers out enjoying their extra sunshine
Coffee passable… he must have changed coffee brands
Happy Birthday MC… old man that you now are.
IF, NT, Cpap on track
Got EOB there’s a charge for a day I didn’t see a Dr. Will have to get that figured out today. It should not be this complicated.
Looking forward to an easier day.
Know you are prayed for
42°F WSW18mph SR0554(0654DST) SS1823(1923DST)
Morning Offering given
Village wet, rain falls…thankful for moisture
Coffee blah
Tuesday of Holy Week, where’s your heart today? With Jesus as he continues his journey to Calvery or shopping for clothing, candy, and food. Out of curiosity will the shoping get you to heaven? In all honesty, I have not had a faithful Lent. My days are too busy and too focused on the world.
On the last Esken book… with this one I will have read them all. They are excellent.
Know you are prayed for.
34°F SE13mph SR0556(0656DST) SS1822(1922DST)
Morning Offering given
Village wet
Coffee okay
The last thing I want to do today is get moving. This weather lends to remaining in pj’s and reading a good book. One of these first days I’m going to do that.
IF beginning week 24 of 25 weeks. NT day 27 of 90. Cpap ugh.
Copy jobs completed
Know you are prayed for.
27°F SE17mph SR0558(0658DST) SS1820(1920DST)
Morning Offering given
Village covered in snow, sleeping
Coffee good
I’m thinking we got a couple of new inches of snow over night. Won’t last long. Temps are already raising. The call is for rain later and into tomorrow. I praise and give thanks for the much needed moisture.
Yesterday I lost my temper with a person I had never met. I took a friend to the Amish Auction in Readstown yesterday morning at 7. We were less than 1000 feet to the auction house drive when an out of state van (IL or MN) passed me (on gravel) and squeezed between and oncoming buggy and the buggy ahead of me. Causing both buggies to hug their respective ditches. The eyes of the woman driver coming toward me were so frighten I doubt I will forget them. I pulled into the parking lot behind him, let my friend out and marched over to the offending van knocking on his driver door window. He opened his door. A wisp of an elderly man in the driver’s seat… I said… “What in the HELL were you thinking? Were you trying to kill all of us?” He said nothing, just sat quietly waiting for me to finish. I continued with ” it is drivers like you who have no regard for others on the road, who are too impaitent to wait another 1000 feet to turn off, that kill entire van loads of people. If you didn’t see those buggies before you passed me you need to have your eyes examined or your head because you almost killed that woman in the on coming buggy!” His van was full of people. I turned and left. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to drive. I need to go to confession. His actions still aggitate me this morning.
Speaking of confession… no one was in the confession last evening… there hasn’t been anyone to hear confessions in over 3 yrs in that confessional. Not that there wasn’t someone able to be there, it is just always empty so no confessions are heard. The service was fast, speedy and lacking for Palm Sunday… But, we were invited to travel to another town for confession and a beautiful Mass. I won’t be traveling in that direction anytime soon. I will head to IA for Easter with our family… there won’t be any services in my regular parish for any of Easter week. The Spanish community will however have Mass there with their priest.
Easter candy is bagged and ready to give out this next week to 5 of my special needs friends. I hope they smile when they receive them.
I am still in the desert, searching for water… all the watering holes I’ve come across thus far are dry or full of mud.
Know you are prayed for.
13°F NNW5mph SR0559 (0659DST) SS1819 (1919DST)
Morning Offering given
Village sleeping
Coffee good
Turkey Licenses are available today.
Made seat tags yesterday and laminated for the workers at the workshop. I’m sure it will make them smile. The offical name of the workshop is “Triple S Workshop” The S’s stand for Sunbeam Special School. It’s a good name.
Mass 8pm St John’s Summit Ridge… stations at 730.
Know you are prayed for.
Why is that?
26°F NNE11mph SR0601(0701DST) SS1818(1918DST)
Morning Offering given
Village covered in snow
Coffee good
Ah yes, Mother Nature letting us know she is in charge. PTL for the much needed moisture for our fields and streams. Once again my thank yous to the snow removal and road crews who keep our highways safe. We really have no clue regarding the amount of time, effort, and knowledge that goes into the quick removal of this white stuff. If you have always lived in WI you probably take that for granted. Those in the south shut down and stay home in this kind of weather. I smile remembering the light dusting of what I call corn snow (those tiny balls of snow that aren’t really flakes but mini snowballs as in less than bb size) when we lived in TX. Everyone was running to the store and stocking up on milk and water. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what the huge hurry was. One of my co workers asked if I wanted her to cover for me while I went and got mine. I told her no, that I’d get it after work she said its started snowing and it will be slippery are you sure you don’t want to go now? I told her it would be fine. It was fine, not even what I call a snow happened although it sure was nice to see and the air had that snow smell to it as well. Driving was not an issue…I was basically the only one on the road.
Hoping to end up in La Crosse today. Will stop at the Cpap store and pick up supplies. Have a couple of copy jobs and a typing job to do today.
IF, NT, and Cpap are on track.
Know you are prayed for
In the "Wilds of Wisconsin & Cornfields of Iowa" 