What the brake line should have looked like (above) but didn’t (below)…
Driving with no brakes wakes one up pretty quickly, but the brakes are now fixed, so I’ll depend on the coffee sent in by C.W. Thanks for that!
Meanwhile, jd sent in some brown recluse spider wound post sawyer extractor bandage prep. Wonderful! Hopefully, the chickens will be vigilant in eating the spiders, though I’m killing more everyday. I guess the chickens can’t eat every spider!
The chickens will learn, of course, to stay away from this little fellow as he gets older:
And here’s one of the grape vines showing some promise:
All the world is bursting with blossoms at the moment:
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. 
