It was a super Sunday. Chelsea and I had a chilly walk. A few large snowflakes even came down while we were walking and melted as soon as they hit the road. There was frost all over the grass.

I went to the 8AM Mass. Poor Fr. Van Beeck. He will soon be the pastor of St. John the Baptist in Plymouth AND St. Thomas Aquinas in Elkhart Lake. He is having difficulty deciding HOW he can pastor two separate parishes and laid out some of his problems to US this morning. He is willing to say four masses on a weekend but will be only able to do one each day at each parish. Someone will be unhappy no matter what he does. I told him that I had been through the Blessed Trinity merger, which is even harder because you have to CLOSE churches and this makes people really unhappy. I mentioned that I got a glimmer of the hurt that this entails when they changed the name from St. Mary Help of Christians. After all, my grandfather helped choose that name. That was when I realized how little I was giving up after all. Anyway, I told him to be brave.

When I got home I fixed breakfast and put the Spinach Egg casserole together and baked a Market Day Apple Pie. At about noon, I drove out to Rhine Plymouth to shoot three league targets. I did pretty good. I was a little worried because my shoulder has been rather sore but it didn't hurt while I was shooting and my scores were all above 50.

Then I took a nap. I drove to Falls to pick up Mother to join us for dinner. We had a lovely evening with her as usual. She mentioned that she was on her last bottle of wine so we sent two home with her. A Gewertziminer and a White Zin.

Now I am home and settling down for the evening.

Today I sat down to rest for a bit and Dick had the travel channel on to Samantha Brown's European show. She mentioned that the mountains where she was touring looked almost like they were painted on the sky. That reminded me of the Grand Canyon. It is so big and massive and full of color and also looks JUST like the paintings you see of it. Incredibly beautiful.

Love and stuff and have a great week.

Mary