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05.07.2023

59⁰ F clear W@12mph SR@0611 SS@1944

Morning Offering given

Sierra Blanca is peaceful

We slept in again or at least it feels like it. At home, it’s our normal waking time.

Just heard this morning that our G’daughter Keziah A and the Wartburg College choir were honored to sing during Mass at St Peter’s Basilica on May 6. May it increase their desire to know and serve the Lord.

Congratulations to Haley C who will receive her 1st Holy Communion today at Our Lady of Miracles. We are honored to be here with her, not only as her G’parents but as her Baptismal sponsors. She’s grown into a beautiful young lady.

Proverbs 8: 17 I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. 

God came to Solomon in a dream (1Kings3:3-15) and told him to ask for whatever he wanted. Solomon humbly asked for Wisdom to lead God’s people. Here in Proverbs we find that all of us can find wisdom if we look/watch for it. Wisdom is the first and highest gift of the Holy Spirit. It is the perfection of faith, through which we come to value properly those things we believe through faith. It is applying that knowledge into our everyday life.

Our time here in Sierra Blanca will soon be over. Our long trek home will begin. We will take the time to meet old friends 5 hrs down the road and catch up with the past 30 yrs.

Send up a few prayers for our safe return to the North Country.

Know we are praying for you.

05.05.2023

58⁰ F overcast SE@15mph SR@0627 SS@2021

Morning Offering given

El Dorado KS is up and moving

Tonight we’ll be in Sierra Blanca,TX

Yesterday’s drive went well. The weather was beautiful. Traffic wasn’t too bad, not even in the cities. CJ Box’s Secret Treasure has been a great audiobook.

Had a good phone conversation with Tom. From the sounds of things, he failed to comply with treatment, Making his stay much longer. I realize some people just can’t comply, or think they can’t. The ins and outs of treatment don’t make much sense to me. My thought process is just to get it done. Do what they ask, take it to heart, get it done, and get well. I can’t handle the beating around the bush thing.

Lots of vehicle accidents on the roadways yesterday. So many people in their own little bubble, traveling at a fast rate of speed, switching lanes to get ahead one more spot. Not for me, give me twisty old Cty U where I can meander and enjoy the countryside.

Gotta get a move on, I NEED COFFEE

Know you are prayed for.

05.04.2023

41°F overcast SSW@12mph SR@0551 SS@2009

Morning Offering given

Village peaceful

Coffee good

The man sleeps, we were up much too late last night

I did not sleep well. I can hear this sound, like an alarm warbling, all night long. No luck in finding it, although I cased the entire house. I can still hear it as I sit here. high, low, high, low long…sending me out of my mind. It must be something with tinnitus because the man hasn’t been bothered by it. Gotta love the golden years.

Rest in peace Aunt Louise (1997)

From the Margin… from the BVM… “Silence and obscurity”, that is what I ask of you. Let the light of the Lord shine through you in your daily duties. Many misunderstand this and think that they must be in the public eye to do great things for God. It is often quite the contrary. Silence and obscurity-as I was in Bethlehem and Nazareth.

Question of the Day… Whose feet are you washing today?

Saint of the Day… St Hilary. Bishop of Arles. He found himself prey to a violent interior contest. “On the one side, I felt that the Lord was calling me, whilst on the other hand the seductions of the world held me back.” and “My will swayed backward and forwards, now consenting, now refusing. But at last, Christ triumphed in me.” I’m thinking many of us today could say things like this about our spiritual journey. As I look at myself I can certainly see it.

Guess I’d best stop lollygagging and get the suitcase packed.

Know you are prayed for.

Planting by the Light of the Moon

We are heading out on a small (time frame) trip but long in miles this morning when we get our life in order. At the rate we are moving right now at 0022 hrs it won’t be an early leave trip. Last evening we decided the flowers need to be planted so there we moved planters, planted them, dug in flower beds, and planted them. We live in a quiet neighborhood, we would be what the young people call “two old farts”. Now they are probably thinking we are two old farts that have lost our minds.

Our children have grown, married, and are raising their own children. Our pets have been deceased for a couple of years. Both of us are retired, and set in our ways and routines. Normally we’d have been sleeping by 10, but happening here right this moment is the washer is running; Things getting put in order… because well should we die on this trip the house must be clean for those who would drop by. I know old-timers thinking.

Suitcases, which should have already been packed, haven’t even been pulled out from the closet. Items to go in them are spread across the dining room table, the bathroom countertop, and the kitchen table, well you get the picture. My normally organized way of living seems to have turned into some kind of chaos now that the children are gone. I don’t even have a list made out…unheard of!

There are still a few vegetable plants that need planting when the sun comes up, it was too dark out there in the garden area tonight. Someone still needs to be contacted to pick up the mail. Porch plants still need good watering. No way are we ready for this trip.

Who knows, we may just blog the trip. Oh wait, I did remember the audio books we will need.

Regardless, know you are prayed for.

05.03.2023

32°F clear NNW@8mph SR@ 0552 SS@ 2008

Morning Offering given

Village sleeps

Coffee good

The man cooking breakfast

Today I finish up with the yearly medical stuff.

Need to sort more things for the garage sale and need to get that garage set up and items put out.

Belated congrates to Sessi on the anniversary of her 1st Communion (May 2 2010)

Remembering Quinn H we passed in 2017 (2nd)

Congrates to Robert S on the anniversary of his 1 Holy Communion (1992)

Know you are prayed for.

05.02.2023

41⁰F cloudy NNW@19mph SR@0554 SS@2006

Morning Offering given

Village peaceful

Coffee good

The man off to Iowa for the day.

Interesting video…powerful words Tucker Carlson and the Power of Truth https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/tucker-carlson-and-the-power-of-truth_5233877.html?utm_source=andshare

Once again, I will say the fee I pay for the Epoch Times is the BEST money I spend each month.  You can’t go wrong with it.

Plants need to go in the ground be for we leave on Thurs.

Picked up 3 books on cd and 2 regulars. CDs for the drive. The ceramic pot holds a variegated “string of pearls”

The table is a mess, actually the entire house is. This, too, shall pass.

Today is my day to pray for cmom, as well as others. Know you are prayed for.