Catching up on the road - 6 hours hauling beans with hubby/time with grandkids/Archangels show us God's love!

Sweet Tom with my kitty, Ignatius - Iggy.  He loves his apples off our eating trees, and Ruth reports that he now has his front 2 teeth on top and that is probably why he has had a runny nose lately.  Today he had his 9 month check up and he is the picture of health.  Tall and healthy and happy! 

Grandma dug out a stocking cap a couple days ago as it was nippy.  We attempted a photo shoot in the golden corn field across the road.

Golden path through the field.  The men are back to combining corn today again as they are reaching the end of their bean harvest in the next few days.

Kind of messy looking with a cute brown eyed boy making it cute none the less.

On the porch swing with corn and leaves off our 100+ year old Cottonwood tree.

He is such a sweetie - he is taking his nap now after he got all those shots in his leg at his doctor visit today.  Ouch!

I was surprised that Iggy seemed OK with Tom and his apple being this close.  Iggy has lived the summer outside, but the cold will make him become more of a housecat once again.

Grandma had Jude and Birdie for the evening... our wonderful tomato soup for supper.  It was so good!

Why we do the work!  

Play in the hot tub after supper.

Birdie showing me her clean toes.

7 years ago - 200 quarts of applesauce!  We are having fake plans to do apple pie filling tomorrow.  That should be our last big canning day.  We do have some tomatoes to do yet, but it will be juice or stewed and less jars.  

Loading the truck for a big trip to Brewster Bean plant an hour away.  The turn around trip takes at least 3 hours with there and back plus unloading.  I  went along with hubby for 2 turns and it was surprising that most of those 6 hours together was visiting and catching up on our lives.  

Loading the truck is done quickly and then on the road around and around.  So many prayers for safety for our guys!  I had my rosary beads traveling through my fingers as we moved down the road visiting and sharing.  I was very excited to share with him about the wonderful glorious experience I was given at the Instillation of our new Bishop Chad Zielinski!  

New shepherd: ‘Pierced to the core,’ bishop comes with heart in hand | News, Sports, Jobs - The Journal (nujournal.com)  Article about his instillation

Arriving at the soybean plant in the tiny town of Brewster close to Worthington.  We discussed the possibility of going to Kansas City to see Hallel and her Community of the Lamb over MEA break in 3 weeks as it looks like the crop could be out.

A new snuggly cat to the farm that needed a home.

Making himself at home on the blanket while Tom is now able to stand up to furniture as he is getting closer to walking in a few months.

The 12 cows on our pasture behind our home were out catching some sun yesterday morning.  This weather is so perfect for us and for the cows.  We still are in great need of rain as they creeks are dry and the grass is in short supply.  Lord, hear our prayers! 

Yesterday was the feast of the Archangels as we traveled through the farm land with so many combines and tractors and trucks working to take out the crop.  

We meet them in the Bible and they show to us the LOVE that God has for his people.  They make me feel close to God and safe from the harm of all the evil that is around us in this messed up world! 

Never alone!!!

Add to them our guardian angel with us... we are very blessed and protected!  

As I sat in the truck - I could watch hubby unload the truck on the side mirror.

Openning the floodgates for the beans to pour into the storage underneath the truck quickly as the line of trucks was growing longer and longer.

Getting the broom to sweep in any that might spill around the truck.

Our load being loaded by Brad, and then back again with lots to share as we travel and my prayers to Our Lady going on in my head and my heart for our family.  Each decade is prayed for my 5 kids and their families and needs.  I than added one for my hubby - Embracing my Most Cherished Cross = a combination of the 4th and 5th Sorrowful - Dragging my cross, and dying to self and not counting the cost in the crucifixion.  

Onto the truck...

The surplus on a huge pile in the middle of the plant in Brewster.

A long wait 

Tile in the kitchen is making such a difference!  

Stopped by the house to see the progress and have my late breakfast after mass, water aerobics, and then a fasting blood draw for a physical next week - gulp!

A quiet breakfast with the new ceiling in the dining room overhead!  Soon paint and the kitchen coming together will be huge.  

How I smiled when I just walked out the door and across the street to pray for Father Denny with 7 Sisters in the peaceful beautiful church with the fall decor and Jesus in the tabernacle.  Just myself and the custodian washing the tile floors in this huge space!

Beckoning me to come and find PEACE and JOY and LOVE in his presence - sharing The Office of Readings on my phone along with Morning Prayer of The Church.  When Fr Denny first came to live in Marshall - I was in the Adoration chapel and he came in to pray.  He turned on his phone and was reading and I knew he was praying with iBreviary  It is the Prayer of The Church on your phone or computer.  So now I smile as I take out my phone to pray for him as we share The Prayer of The Church!  

I round out my hour praying the rosary - on the 4th Decade I include walking around the church praying a station of the Cross on each of the 10 beads.  

It makes me recall my wonderful father, who lived with me the last 6 months of his life on hospice here in my farm monastery!  We would share the rosary and chaplet of Divine Mercy on my porch each day at 3p, and on the sorrowful mysteries on Tuesday and Friday we would have a station for every bead of the 4th decade - Jesus takes up his Cross or drags his Cross!  

Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: The amazing story of the 13 becoming Catholic!

Dad brought all 13 of us into The Catholic Church 50 years ago - each day since has been a pearl of great price! 

Joy 4 years ago - she is now a big sister to Thomas Robert!  How she loves him and he loves her.  She is so blessed to be able to be a big sister as she is #6 and Tom is #7!

Golden Fall days with my companion Tom! 

Psalm 139 from mass today is one of my all time favorites and speaks so powerfull of the gift of LIFE!  The motto of our domestic Church/family is to be Open to LIFE and raising LIGHTS!  How we embrace this truth that The Church holds out to us and we find such happiness here!

If I take the wings of the dawn,
if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
Even there your hand shall guide me,
and your right hand hold me fast.
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
Truly you have formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother's womb.
I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;
wonderful are your works.
R. Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.  Psalm 139

Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: Our marriage stories - "The world needs LIGHTS!" 

My dad underlining in his prayer book yesterday - the Archangels!  

Pope Benedict XVI on the Feast of the Archangels yesterday..."Faith makes man light.  We become like angels.  We can fly, because we no longer weigh so heavy in our own estimation."  

A new way to look at light, and very cool and deep which you can count on Pope Benny showing us on our journey - so much with each new day!!  I am overwhelmed with your love, O Lord and Lady!  Jesus, we trust in you.  Amen and Hallelujah

Now dad's man, Brother Victor... I love when dad underlines and shows me how much the beauty of this monk sharing his life with us meant to my wonderful wise father!  Bless-bless, Barbara and the 54 - 34 with us and 20 in heaven including both my parents that died 7 months apart after reaching 70 years of marriage and our family of over 140+!

Danielle Rose 

Zach Williams