The Legion of Mary had a Mass followed by a breakfast at Blessed Trinity this morning. We are a nice group. There are 89 auxiliary members and 5 active members. I am an auxiliary. I am just unable to spend 4 hours a week more on ANYTHING. The Mass was nice and the ladies fixed a scrumtious breakfast. We had sweet breads, deviled eggs, scrambled eggs with bacon, bread and butter and cheese and fruit. WOW. The company was pleasant too.

Then, I got home and figured I was done for the day. UNTIL I looked at my calendar and realized that the Sheboygan Symphony was tonight. So we napped and went. It was really good, as usual. They had a guest organist and a guest guitarist. The guitarist played with the orchestra on selections from a composer called Jaoquin Ridrigo - Concierto de Aranjez. The peices were delightful. They also played the Pines of Rome by Respighi. I had not heard them before and was very impressed.

Tomorrow is the third Packer game of the season. Heaven help us. We had better win this one.

Have a great Sunday morning.

Mary

We are home. Did you miss me?

We had a very exciting four days - all a mystery, of course. We travelled from Sheboygan as far west as Minnesota. We visited Lark Toys, the Mayo Clinic, the Spam Museum (yes, there really is such a place), took a ride on the Minnesota Zepher train and many other things.

We were with a grand group of people. I well expand on this tomorrow and hopefully, I can get a picture in. I am really tired and want to go to bed.

Take care and have a great Saturday

Mary

We are home. Did you miss me?

We had a very exciting four days - all a mystery, of course. We travelled from Sheboygan as far west as Minnesota. We visited Lark Toys, the Mayo Clinic, the Spam Museum (yes, there really is such a place), took a ride on the Minnesota Zepher train and many other things.

We were with a grand group of people. I well expand on this tomorrow and hopefully, I can get a picture in. I am really tired and want to go to bed.

Take care and have a great Saturday

Mary

It is 5:15AM. We are waiting for Bobbie. Chelsea and I took our walk at 4:00AM. It really was nice out there. The moon is full. I got one view of the sky with the full moon on the right, outshining the stars and stars showing up on the darker left. I did not hear birds. I suppose they were still sleeping. Sensible. Dick joked that perhaps we are going to be touring historic Sheboygan Falls.

You will not hear from me until Friday. Then the secret of our destination will be revealed to you.
Have a good rest of the week. I am sure we will. I have fun wherever I go.

Love


Mary

We are all packed for our Mystery Tour. I don't think I have ever been ready the day before for ANY other trip. Surely, we must have forgotten something. Bobbie will be here at 5:30AM so we can get to the pick up point for the 6:15 AM departure.

Cadfael's Book of Days was good today. "Salvation comes from strange places and unexpected friends."

Love

Mary

We are all packed for our Mystery Tour. I don't think I have ever been ready the day before for ANY other trip. Surely, we must have forgotten something. Bobbie will be here at 5:30AM so we can get to the pick up point for the 6:15 AM departure.

Cadfael's Book of Days was good today. "Salvation comes from strange places and unexpected friends."

Love

Mary

The cheesecake is a keeper. It is three layers of chocolate. A cheesecake layer, a brownie layer and a ganache layer. Two of them I laced with Irish Potcheen.

Bobbie and I ate the venison liver. Wow was it good and we each got two pieces for later. The guys turned their noses up at it as usual. But they enjoyed their hamburgers and we all liked the raw fried potatoes.

The Packers lost - again. They seem to have no defense this year. The offence was scoring but they couldn't keep the Colts from scoring and were just outplayed. Ick!!

Tomorrow will be busy as we need to shop, pack and then I have two evening meetings at church. We must get up by 4:30AM on Tuesday morning to catch the bus for our Mystery Tour at 6:15AM.

Someday I plan on publishing a volume of my own poems. I read something today that I must keep in mind when that occurs. A quote from Don Marquis. "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

Puts it all in perspective.

Love

Mary