Joyfully John is home for the weekend - mom had to spoil him and baked a pound cake. It came out of the oven and Therese helped me decorate it and the two blue candles beckoned to be added. Now it became a "birthday cake" and we remembered that every day there are many calves being born - so it is now an calf birthday cake!
Candles have to be lit twice - which with all the little ones it can never be enough times... the second time we MOOED the entire happy birthday song! With our surveilance camera complete with sound and the constant mooing we hear now here in the house morning noon and night... it just seemed right to moo the whole thing! Calving has been going very well... I think that Pat had to help his first cow have a calf today -otherwise they have been having them all by themselves without any mishaps! 
"Moo - moo- moo - moo -moo - moo..."Thank you Lord for the great calving we are having with all the little ones arriving safely into this cold and challanging winter! Continue to assist Pat with all that he has to be on top of out there. But his biggest prayer is for nice weather to finally arrive! Keep all the little ones safe and healthy. And Happy and Blessed birthday, all you sweet baby calvies! Jesus, we trust in you! Amen and Halleluia!
Bless-bless, Barb
One of the earliest legends of St. Francis speaks of a fierce wolf near the town of Gubbio who was eating animals and humans because he was starving. The entire town was afraid to go outside the town walls until St. Francis--convincing the people the wolf's hunger was what caused him to do wrong--met with the wolf, blessed it and is reported to have said, " Brother Wolf, you have done great harm to this region, not only destroying other creatures without mercy, but you even have the brazenness to kill and devour human beings made in the image of God. You deserve severe punishment; but I want to make peace between you and the town, so that they will not be harmed by you anymore and after they have forgiven you, neither men or dogs will pursue you any more." The wolf indicated it would accept these terms, and offered his paw as a sign. St. Francis of the animals said, "I promise that the town will feed you every day; I know that what you did, you did out of hunger." The town promised to do what the saint had bargained, and having adopted the wolf, and fed him until the day he died. (Story compiled from 'the Little Flowers of St, Francis of Assisi, the website of the Franciscan Friars and Catholic Encyclopedia)
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