(Some updates) Things to do today: Esa cojudez! C’est de la merde! Yikes!

• Speaking to THE Mother General ✔ (I am reminded of some books I need to write. The Jackass Trilogy is turning out to be rather prophetic, not in the inspired sense, just that some things are happening like clock-work. What a fright!)
• Put up a note thanking benefactors
• Put up a post on autism. ✔
• Put up a comment sent in by Father Gordon MacRae (Yikes!) [I spent a good hour speaking with Father Gordon. What a great priest he is!]
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• Comment on the continuing battle between an increasingly inept and rebellious CDF: C’est de la merde! Esa cojudez! Yikes! A tribute, again, to Blessed John Paul II (didn’t expect that, did you?!) ✔
• Comment on the German Episcopal Conference and the date rape pill
• Go to Confession! We just heard that the local parish will not be graced with a new priest until sometime in July of this year. Yikes! So, much time spent on the road today, this rainy, rainy, rainy day ✔ [Great Confession experience! The Lord is very good and kind to send priests into our lives]
• Preliminary Spring cleaning
• Catch up with blog comment moderation queue ✔ [Yikes! I just returned and quick glanced over emails and comments: Patience, friend, patience!]
• Oh my…. perhaps an attempt at the frighteningly mounting email queue ✔ [Somewhat...]
• Catch up with comments on Opus Bono Sacerdotii and These Stone Walls
• Split wood for the wood stove ✔ … (this is always a project, morning, noon, night, Summer, Winter)
• Keep an eye on a marble like lump on the back right side of the neck, not attached to the skin at all, about an inch in back of the ear and about an inch and a half down from the base of the skull. An ever so slight dull pain. Well, not pain, but I know it’s there, kind of. Easy to ignore, but. Since Wednesday night. No cuts. No bite marks from spiders or other monsters here in the forest. Not red or warm. If pressed on hard will feel pretty uncomfortable. Probably nothing. ✔ [I checked into making some arrangements to have this looked at]
• Pray for the Roman Pontiff, gloriously reigning, and for the yet to be elected Successor to Saint Peter ✔
• An exegesis of the phrase: “Peter the Roman” Not what you expect. Hah! ✔
• Continue to feed the ever voracious, stampeding chickens ✔
• Take a picture of Laudie-dog and perhaps a picture or two of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the way to or from Confession ✔
• Write a rather in-your-face article on the title “Immaculate Conception” ✔
• Praise the Lord of lords, the King of kings, the Prince of the Most Profound Peace, the Divine Son of the Immaculate Conception ✔

And many other things! Perhaps I’ll get one or two done. I’ll be getting in the truck to be on my way to Confession in just a few minutes…

Here’s a view you will surely recognize:

This is the same view (about 40 feet to the side) of the same view, last Summer, also on my way to Confession:

Then, at the Church itself:

And the promised picture of Laudie-dog, who is rather tired after a night of protecting the hermitage from monsters in the forest:

Here she is, going after one of the monsters which disappeared into the forest floor. Laudie is a terror, not an ostrich:

I know I’m behind on things I have to do today, but, please, have mercy. I need to do some prayers and some chores around the hermitage.

Also, I’ve added one more project. I’m erecting in a rather more official manner some Stations of the Cross which I’m now making myself out of what the locals call B****** Vines, the sharpest thorns on the longest cable-like vines that you could ever come across:

The Blessings are quite lengthy. These Stations are simple, but effective. Perhaps I’ll be able to put up some pictures on the blog of the Stations of the Cross at Lourdes, the High Stations. Perhaps also some meditations on the Via Crucis I did as a seminarian a zillion years ago.

O.K. The Stations of the Cross are made, put up, blessed. ✔ Part of the blessing is to actually pray the Stations of the Cross! Good, that. Te Deum, the whole thing. Great! Right now, I’m totally exhausted. Sleep is a necessity for me right now. But, I will get to the rest of the list as soon as possible!