how much catholicness can we fit in one entry?
i'll answer this one with another question.
q: how do you make holy water?
a: boil the hell out of it.
last night father derek came over and blessed the house. he brought his book of blessings and sprinkled holy water and stayed and talked with us for awhile. he's a young priest; i don't know what order he belongs to. he was very kind and peaceful. i feel like the house is ours, now; it was really nice to have the whole family together, too.
i spent most of yesterday building a retaining wall with my father and brothers at sister rose's house. we've been working there for a week and a half doing everything at once, so we finally decided to finish the retaining wall. i build the foundation and jeff and dad drilled through the timbers and peter and ben hammered the spikes in. sort of. seven hours of digging. and hammering. and drilling. not in that order. oh well. honest work is honest work is honest work, even when you are repairing your own mistakes. i suppose.
confidential to juli: even though she can't possibly ever read this: today i wrote some songs for us to sing. i think i might join kate in badgering michael to come see you.
q: how do you make holy water?
a: boil the hell out of it.
last night father derek came over and blessed the house. he brought his book of blessings and sprinkled holy water and stayed and talked with us for awhile. he's a young priest; i don't know what order he belongs to. he was very kind and peaceful. i feel like the house is ours, now; it was really nice to have the whole family together, too.
i spent most of yesterday building a retaining wall with my father and brothers at sister rose's house. we've been working there for a week and a half doing everything at once, so we finally decided to finish the retaining wall. i build the foundation and jeff and dad drilled through the timbers and peter and ben hammered the spikes in. sort of. seven hours of digging. and hammering. and drilling. not in that order. oh well. honest work is honest work is honest work, even when you are repairing your own mistakes. i suppose.
confidential to juli: even though she can't possibly ever read this: today i wrote some songs for us to sing. i think i might join kate in badgering michael to come see you.