This was a very mixed day with ups and downs. I got up at 5:30AM, walked Chelsea and went over to Maywood to help with the pheasant release. Every year, the Sheboygan County Conservation Group, buys about 2700 pheasant chicks and raises them until this time of year then we release them all over the county. Many, of course, are harvested immediately at the hunting season. Many die over the winter, but many are surviving and valiantly replenishing the wild pheasant population in the county. We see many more in the fields and by the roadsides.


It is really fun to do this. We herd the birds into the runs, then clip the blinders, put them in boxes and take them out.

Then I went to church. The choir sang today and that is always an enjoyable worship.

Then I came home and Woe is Us. The Packers lost to the Bears. What a bummer!!!

It will be a quiet week in the Kunert household. Jim is released to go back to work tomorrow. You probably remember that he had surgery on his foot and has been recuperating.

Thursday Dick and I go the Peshtigo on a tour and the rest of the week is quiet with very little need to leave the house. I am really looking forward to the respite.

Here is a little paragraph from a book called The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by Jean-Yves Leloup. I like his interpretation of the Beatitudes. He implies that we should replace Blessed with Walk Forth. Here is one of them.

"Walk forth, peacemakers! Yes, you shall be acclaimed sons of Elohim! Peace is the fruit of an artisan's work. It is the slowest and most patient way of walking. Peace cannot be commanded by throwing money at a problem, nor by overthrowing a government. It is nothing less than the Son of Man and the son of God being born within ourselves."

Have a good week

Mary