Thanks to the Tyburns and all those who have had Holy Mass offered for yours truly.
Thanks to jd, who sent in… YES!… another Sawyer’s Extractor and even tissues to clean the blood and horror out of it! Very useful. This is especially good, limb-saving, life-saving even, regarding brown recluse bites. I think that this is the brown recluse capital of the world. I think I easily have the world record of brown recluse bites in a lifetime, all in about a three month period last spring. We’re coming up to that time of year again. Hopefully, the chickens are gorging themselves on all the spiders round about. Pictures of the them, and the damage they can do, can be found on the Faunae page.
Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 
I apologise if it is a silly question but I can’t help wondering why you did not build your hermitage where there were not quite so many deadly enemies to combat.
So, just when you think you’ve escaped all beasts and in the middle of desert, then you receive on onslaught of all hell broken loose as it was on Calvary. A life to be noted: Saint Anthony of the Desert!
Isn’t it St. Anthony who had the vision of all the demons leaving the city to land on his hermitage in the desert?
Watch out for black widow spiders, also. Shiny black, small; they like wood piles and flower pots.
All the wood is gone. And there are no flower pots. So, at least that.