Hi There

 A clear day, sunny but chilly/    I was grateful for it as they are actually predicting a rain/snow mix with possibility of accumulation.     I thought I was in Oklahoma:)    Well, time will tell.   At least I am blessed with a warm comfortable home and plenty of food and am not sick.

Tomorrow I get to stay home all day anyway as I went to Mass tonight.    I told one of the deacons that I feel totally holy this week.    I have never attended mass more times than I did this week, since I was in the convent 64 years ago when went every day:)

I almost have my packages ready to mail.    Will take them on Monday.

Then Christmas cards.  I have sent some but have more to go.

Hope you are also all well and in warm and comfortable homes with plenty of food.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

She greets me with such joy

Even if I have only 

Left her for a minute

My special doggy friend.

She if full of unlimited love

So glad that she loves me

A SUNNY CHILLY DAY

 Wasn't fair.   We have gotten used to the 60s and 70s again.    Not chilly but not the stifling heat of the summer.

I am just home from Mass.  I probably would not have gone tonight, The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but I got assigned as an Usher and thought I might as well.    Good thing,as Stan would have been ushering by himself.    It was quite a bilingual mass with
Mexican dancers and musicians so I enjoyed it.    But I am really tired.

Love you all

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Blessings

I thank the lord

For he has given me

Each sunrise one more day

To BE

Happy Hanikah

A special start to a special season for our Jewish brothers and sisters.

It was an unbelievably busy day today.    Vita had her yearly check this morning.   She is all up to date on shot, nails, and all other checks and has meds for heartworm and ticks and fleas for the next year.

This afternoon, I went to Miracle Ear and got my new hearing aid.    It think I told you I lost it a while ago.   Now I have to be VERY careful again.    It does help.    But with glasses and those stupid masks both looping over my ear, I have to be so very careful.    

 
Tonight was Writers Club.   All four of us were there and had something to read.   Wish we could get some more participants.    We all love to hear each other and to be able to be stimulated to write more.

A quiet day tomorrow until evening when I am ushering at the Mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe.   I have never felt so holy in my life:) :)

Dia Dhuit

Mary

SQUIRRELS

Backyard

Teeming with squirrels

Who tease the dogs each day

Spinning in circles then up the trees

Laughing.

Wednesday Bible Study

We had seven of us there today.    We are actually studying a book called The Jesus We Missed by Patrick Henry Reardon.     It is quite interesting in that it sometimes compares what we mean by words to what they meant in biblical times.   EG.   Jesus called many of the ladies, including his mother, WOMAN.    Woman at that time was a term of respect, which makes you think about it a bit differently.

As long as I was there, I went to the noon mass then did my grocery shopping and have been home for the rest of the day.   I was exhausted and took a little bit of a nap.   Am I ever lucky that I CAN do that.

I will be packing boxes to get to all the family tomorrow through Friday, then spend Monday at the post office getting them out.  They say that the 15th is the last day to guarantee delivery.   WOW>

Hope your day was as good as mine.   

Stay Well and Safe.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Staying in place

How long can people

Survive without a hug or kiss

We are learning now

 

Hello Time for bed

 I was actually home all day today.   It was another cold morning with a warm sunny afternoon.   Kerry came and cleaned the house.

Then I got a call from my friend, Judy.   She reminded me that today, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, is a holy day (which I had forgotten) and offered to pick me up for the Mass at 6:30PM so I went.   It was a lovely Mass, bilingual, with incense and everything.    Glad I got there.

Tomorrow is Bible Study and I will be shopping and going to the bank too.

All of you stay well.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

SQUIRREL

When I see my fat squirrels

Playing in the back yard

Climbing up and down the tree

I feel alive and whole

I loved today

It was sunny and warm.    Vita took me for walks without a jacket and I was plenty warm, isn't that nice.

I made my Cranberry Bread today.    Boy is it good.   Refrigerated it lasts forever and I can share with family and friends.  One of the loaves, had pieces fall off when I took it out of the pan.   Now I REALLY remember why I make it every year.     Got the recipe from a special neighbor from long ago, Joyce Nusser.    Her Chip and my Bret were best friends for years and little people

I was having a problem with plumbing again.    American Shield sent Shields Plumbing to fix it..  I asked Mike if there was anything I could do to prevent it.   He said, not really as it is the old iron pipes that let debris  stick to it, in this case lint from the washing machine.   So I guess it is a part of my maintenance.

I get to be home all day tomorrow too.

Good for me

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Social distancing

Leaves us alone and lonely

Wishing for others.

Another sunny day

Kind of a rough one though.    Barbara is still ill and needs prayer.    I talked to her tonight.  I know that she has a serious infection and is very delicate in the lung area.    We must all send prayers as I said for her quick recovery.

I went to mass this morning, a bilingual Mass.   I had not been to that particular mass before and found it quite refreshing.    Parts are in Spanish and parts in English, which gave me a chance to see how much of the Spanish (I should say Mexican) that Uncle Earl taught my mother in law, Lily and I 50 years ago remains in my brain.    Not a lot but I am pleased that it was not ALL that unfamiliar.

Sent my beer bread recipe that I got from Jacquie many years ago to the Deeleys who attended the virtual Wild Game Dinner.   Want it

Beer Bread

3 cups self-rising flour

2 Tablespoons Sugar

1 can beer

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.   Grease loaf pan.  Mix above ingredients in the loaf pan.   If you have time let it settle for a few minutes.    Bake for 1 hour in the 350 degree oven.

Enjoy

Mary