A very wonderful lady in town who follows HSH blog donated some books. More on those in a future post. She also provided a great meal even while I loaded up the truck to take away a pile of wood she was also donating (plus gas money for the trips back and forth to the hermitage). Some are just so very thoughtful, so very good and kind. The wood is cut, hauled, split, dryed out red oak. She just has way too much. She got it from J., who passed away last year, another of the myriad CIA crowd who, with the FBI, and others from the NNIC, USAIC, etc., make this area their home upon retirement. I’m beginning to think that a majority of the retired population has this demographic. Thanks go to this wonderful benefactor of HSH.
The neighbor, wanting Jenny the Jeep to have a safe trip up the mountain while carrying heavy loads, made a rack out front of Jenny, a bit of a facelift for her, so to speak. Spreading out the weight of the wood does wonders for traction. So, thanks go to the neighbor, a genius with welding. And… and… when I don’t need the rack, it pops right off.
In the back of the picture above, you see a trailer he made. Underneath, there was a super active yellowjacket nest. Since he’s deadly allergic to even one sting (which would send him to his death if he were to be without an epipen), I’m delegated to get rid of the monsters. This is the result, or part of it anyway.
The corpses number about a gazillion. I think I could have dug much deeper to show you more, but, you get the idea.
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. 
י ב ר כ ך י ה ו ה ב ה ת א ם ל ת פ י ל ת מ ר י ם ה ק ד ו ש ה
So, Jenny’s a YJ? Cool!
Mark: Wrangler of 1987. A terrible year, actually. That was a transition year. Hard to get parts. Yikes!
I belong to a Jeep club in Connecticut. We have about 3 to 5 members with YJs. I enjoy reading your blog though it’s a bit too wordy for me. Keep up the good work Father. Vivat Jesus.
Hello Mark. Just practicing with the wordiness for the popular version of the thesis. Unpacking a sentence might take a whole chapter.
Since you know about jeeps… What would you recommend for replacement seats (strong!) for a Jeep Wrangler of 1987, which is an odd transition year. The seat that you see here is not a drivers seat, and has no mechanism to put the seat further away from the steering wheel. I can’t set the brake without opening the door! The brackets underneath are not for an ’87, since whatever it is is bolted to rubbish of any kind that was thrown on the floor to make adjustments.
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This is only to show what the seat brackets should look like. As the ad says, they cover 1987-95. The 1987 may have been transitional but most of the interior and exterior features were the same for all those years. There should be a glut of parts for this year range. Of course, if you know someone with a welder, they could rig up any kind of driver’s seat.
Thanks, Mark. But, caveat lector!
I edited out the link since, after I went to it, I got three hacking attempts, which cost me three hours of norton gymanstics, so far. Yikes! You might want to check your computer as well.
Really?! Sorry, I had a feeling I should not have entered that but did anyways. I’ll try to be more careful.
Not to worry!