It's bedtime. As the old expression goes, I ran out of day before I ran out of things to do. I worked on the quilting, sent out several letters, baked four pies for the turkey dinner and went to the 5:00 PM mass to sing in the choir.

Now I don't have to get up early tomorrow, as I will go get the dinners and take the pies at about 10:30AM. Then at 1:30 will leave with the other members of the choir for St. John the Evangelist Cathedral in Milwaukee for the Archdiocesan Choral Festival. I hope my voice holds out. We will be practicing for a couple of hours then have a break for supper, then practice some more, then do the performance. Bishop Sklba is the officiant. I always liked them.

I have not seen the cathedral since the remodel.

Cathedral - the word reminds me of a story that was told by a student who conducted a tour of Dublin that started at Trinity College and ended at Christ Church. Dublin has two cathedral clas churches, both are run by the Church of Ireland. Several years ago, the Roman Catholic church in Ireland asked for permission to build a cathedral in Dublin. Permission was denied. The Church in Rome said that there is already a Catholic Cathedral in Dublin.

They never said which one was considerd Catholic. But apparantly, have never admitted losing one (or maybe even both) of them.

Haven't heard from any of the away kids. Hope all is OK. I will call them on Monday if I don't hear tomorrow. I worry - a lot, but don't like to be a nag or pester people.

Have a nice Sunday.

Mary

We refinanced our mortgage this morning. Rates seem to keep getting better. Each time we do it we think that they are as low as they will be and then a couple of years later they are even lower.

Then I went to lunch with the "Plymouth People" at Dairy Queen. And tonight I worked at Rhine Plymouth. This was the last week of league shooting and next week will be the bust up party. Just in time for deer hunting which will start two weeks from tomorrow. Bobbie and I will go out next weekend to scope out our spots so we can find them again in the dark. Maybe this year will be my year to fill out.

Roxie, the cat, likes cheddar cheese.

Have a good Saturday.

Mary

Mother came for supper tonight. I fixed a venison roast, baked beans and a Caesar Salad along with a peanut butter and jelly cheesecake. All turned out very well. It is always a pleasure to have Mother as a guest.

This is Dick's favorite way for me to fix venison. I rub the roast with a marinade, sprinkle with more spices and then roast at 325 Degrees for at least 45 minutes per pound. The meat is always tender and tastes heavenly.

This was the last of the venison from last year. Good thing Deer hunting season is the weekend before Thanksgiving. My brother Jeff called. Some friends of his got one in a Tzone hunt and gave it to him. He took it to a butcher and is willing to share so I will buy l/3 of it. My freezer is pretty full but I can use a portion of Mother's I am sure. With the frozen veggies, Market Day and some supermarket sales we are packed.

Choir practice went very well tonight. We were in great form. I need to practice the music for Sunday at St. John the Evangelist Cathedral at least once more. Roxie, the cat, finds it quite interesting when I sing and accompany myself on the keyboard. At least she doesn't fuss at me. When I whistle, she fusses at me until I stop. It is really quite funny. My whistle must hurt her ears.

Have a good Friday.

Mary

Well, Bush has apparantly won the election. This makes half of the people I know very happy and the other half not so happy. Mother said that perhaps it is just as well that Bush clean up his own problems in the next four years.

I had a couple of quiet hours today as Dick and Jim went gambling. They came home earlier than I expected and then we went out for Chinese food. It was good.

I read a nice quote from Jack Lemmon today. "If you've done well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down."

Have a nice Thursday.


Mary

Today in history in 1948, President Harry Truman was re-elected over Thomas E. Dewey surprising all the experts in a narrow victory.

This is an exciting election year. The biggest turnout in history. They are saying as many as 125,000,000 people will vote this year. Dick and I went at about 10:00 thinking we would be between the work crowd and had to wait about 45 minutes in line. Jim went at 2:00 and sailed right through. Go figure.

There have been many incidents of problems - eg: votes recorded before the polls open, some fighting, some tampering with machines. - but over all things are going well. With that many votors and this much emotion involved there are going to be some incidents.

I did hear that there was a nice incident at Taylor Heights on South Business Drive in Sheboygan. A retailer called the radio station and said that there were about 40 people walking aroung with political signs both Bush and Kerry. There was no trouble. At first they were clustering by candidate but as time went on they started mingling and seemed to be just enjoying themselves and trying to get people interested in just going to the polls. How refreshing is that.

Tomorrow, Dick and Jim are going up to Oneida to gamble, so I will have the house all to myself for about 5 hours. That is really a treat for me. We are going to get Chinese, so I won't have to cook either. I think I will make a cheesecake so we can have it on Thursday. We have invited Mother over for a Venison Roast dinner and I want to have dessert.

I hope you all voted. It is our right and our chance to put in our two cents. If all of us vote we should get the right guy.

Love

Mary

Rainy, gloomy day. Bible Study was quite lively today. There were 12 of us there and we really got into the message. I did mention that Fr. Gene said that he would join us. Some of the members think that maybe his presence would muzzle us somewhat. So we will discuss it further later.

Lots of prayer requests, among them Fr. Gene, who has a severe sciatic problem.

Tonight was Rhine Plymouth Field and Stream Club. Both Bobbie and I have been renominated for the Treasurer and Secretary postitions. I said I would do it again but that this would be my last two year term for a while.

The Packers whipped the Redskins yesterday. It is said that if the Redskins lose the game before the election the incumbent loses the election. If this follows through, Kerry will win.

We will shop early, as we usually do on Thursday, then go to the polling place and vote, hopefully between the rushes. I believe that the polls will be busy most of the day. This IS a very emotional election. Everyone I talk to is so adamant about their opinions.

How come we choose from just two people to run for
president and 50 for Miss America?

I got the above quote from my friend Kaye this past week. Enjoy.

Love

Mary

We had about 80 gnomes and goblins come to our house last night for their candy supply.
It was quite chilly and breezy. We finally stopped at about 6:45 when we had no takers for about 15 minutes anyway.

Two more days til the election. Got phone calls from Tommy Thompson and Wayne La Pierre today asking me to vote for Bush. Like Mother and I said these people must be getting mighty sore fingers dialing and should be very hoarse giving their spiel to every person in the phone book.





The above is a picture of my Grandfather - Mike Deeley (on our right) and a friend Mr. Delavan (seated on our left.) I am posting it because I like it and want to see if it will work now. I used to have to do tons of difficult stuff to get pictures on the Blog.

Let me know if you like it. They certainly were a dapper pair of Irishmen.

Love and Happy Halloween

Mary