Thursday, June 13, 2024

Hay time on the farm/Dominic is 10/Huge family gathering on the farm all around Hay time! - St Anthony

With a yard full of bales - I got military granddaughter, Therese with farmkids Joy and Tom to pose with the bales.  They surprised me by climbing up on the bales on the rack.
This rack holds 14 bales and Major Joseph helped bring them to the farm from the field down the road.  One day he drove the pickup with 7 bales and the next day he drove the tractor.  Thanks, Joseph!  
It is baling time on the farm!  Pat cuts the hay, a few days later they rake and bale it, and finally we bring them back to the farm.  This is good hay and is being up inside the barn.
Posing on the ground where I expected them to be, but they climbed up there.  
I had a turn in the tractor yesterday as the rain threatened.  Today it did rain half an inch of wonderful rain!  We had to replant some soybeans due to hail, so the beautiful rain this morning was a gift from above!  
Paul loading me... a person needs to have some fun while doing farm work.  Pictures capturing our farm life is my joy!  

Always have to have a silly one!  
Major Joseph with a load of bales.  Around and around they go!  
Family time with all but Hallel and some of the older ones that went to camp.  Nancy's Gina, Ruth's Tom and Maria's Maggie are all within 6 months apart!  Sharing ice cream is one of our favorite things to do!  
Thanks to a FB post by Paul we found homes for all the kittens and some of the mother cats!  Guess what they found in the hay barn?  More kittens, but now we know how to find homes for them - Facebook!  
3 year old Magdalene watching her dad come on the yard with another load of bales.  We keep them safe on the porch...
Or watching from the trampoline as Simon brings a tractor load of bales.
Tom fell asleep mid lunch with the cousins here.
Oh this makes me miss my wonderful time with my parents so much!  We would have such wonderful visits and prayers together in their home in SCF!  They both died 4 years ago 7 months apart after being married for 70 years!  Dad lived with me the last 6 months of his life with me in my farm monastery on hospice.  Such a blessing for me!
Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: Deacon Robert Cross - my dad on hospice in our Farm Monastery for 6 months - 4/16/20 thru 10/23/20  
A picture Maria sent last week of their new home with the living room set up!  Now they will be living another hour away in Fort Riley KS.  Still half a day trip for Pat and I to visit them and our nun with her Community of the Lamb!  
Paul unloading a tiny bale to empty his baler when he got on the yard.
The trio riding the bale for fun!  
My fun and joy are capturing our farm life and family life and Faith life in pictures!  I have the grandkids trained to pose for me!  
Hunky hubby bake with the rake and checking out the grandkids on the bales.
16 year old Therese took my phone and gifted me with some wonderful pictures!  This is a selfie with youngest granddaughter, John's Lucy Marie!  
The 3 boys that are all 5 and are each 3 weeks from the other one... John's Jude, Nancy's George, and Maria's Hector.  They all went to France 6 years ago in the wombs of their mothers for Hallel's final vows!  24 went to France!  
The silly one with Birdie Barbara, who just turned 3.
Sweet Lucy taken by T
Lucy and peonies!  
Mass with 4 families on Sunday - grandpa with Birdie and Regina Maria - Queen Mary!  
Sunday brunch on Ruth's beautiful porch.
2 bales at a time with the payloader.  
Regina is an otter in her pool in Delano.  We made a quick trip up for Dominic's 10th birthday party yesterday.  

Matching suits - Joy and Evangeline are both 7 and spent about 5 hours playing in the pool before we headed back to Marshall!  
Precious Tom2 years ago with his beautiful mommy, Ruth, the farm wife, nurse, and mother of 7 children from 19 to 2!  
Shopping for brunch with Joy and Birdie Barbara 2 years ago on a Sunday in June.
The 3 girls in less than a year!  Nancy's Josephine, Maria's Evangeline, and Ruth's Joy!  
On Monday we spent the day on a big project of picking, cleaning, and making freezer jam - 70 pints for our 6 families including our nun's Community of the Lamb.
Therese wanted to pick and make strawberry jam and got us going on this big day together!  We picked 44 pounds of strawberries.  
Rose and Joy with some of the berrries!  
Therese made Jam with the assistance of her dad, Major Joseph, who read the precise instructions for her to follow.
We thought this white kitten was the last to go to a local farm, until they found more in the hay shed!  
Ruth or David with a load of hay coming up the driveway. A very busy place with all the hay coming home and all the kids playing in the pool and around the yard together.

At Dominic's birthday pool party yesterday - the 3 girl cousins that will grow up together as friends.
My cat was scarce during the week of Maria's dog being here.  Hanging out with Our Lady! 
2 years ago Simon and Mary cantoring at mass. 
St Anthony today!  
Waiting for military cousins to arrive on the last weekend.
Hubby cutting hay - seems like all summer there is more and more to cut and bale and bring home hundreds of bales.  Never ending cycle.  Keep them all safe Lord and Lady!  
Some of the littles on the trampoline with the proverbial popsicles!  
Evie found another kitten and brought the hay with it!  
Some special pictures of Jesus in the monstrance for the year of the Eucharist!  



Jesus, I love and adore you!
Jesus in the tabernacle today when I got Eucharist for my 3 ladies.  Surrounded with gold lies the King of the Universe!  
Took my friend, Marie, in Balaton daisies, asparagus and Jesus!  
Praying with John in the middle of the night.  He is lifted up by a visit by his Doctor from Rochester and how well he thinks John is doing and how wonderful his family is and life.  "John you have accomplished so much in the last 15 years since you fought the battle against brain cancer!"

Family Soul Story - Choose Life!: John's cancer stories  

Now the story continues with wife and 3 wonderful smart children!  


 
  My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you. - Psalm 63:5

 
 
  My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you. - Psalm 63:5

 
 
  My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you. - Psalm 63:5

 

 
"The Bread of Heaven 
satisfies every taste and hunger."

St Anthony of Padua
nee Lisbon, Portugal
Italy ~ 1195-1231
Franciscan Priest, Orator, Wonder worker
DOCTOR of the CHURCH
"Hammer of the Heretics"
"Ark of the Testament"
Patron of the Poor, Patron of Lost articles
Feast Day - June 13

Painting above:  Holy Mass~ José Gallegos Arnosa


"The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey,
and those who nourish themselves with this honey
 produce sweet fruit."  - St Anthony of Padua
______________________
________________________
 
Pope Pius XII named St. Anthony
a Doctor of the Universal Church, that is,
one of the great Christian teachers of all time and a
renowned preacher of God’s word. In 1228, at age 33, he
was invited to preach before Pope Gregory IX.  Afterwards,
the pope called Anthony the  “Ark of the Testament.”
Anthony revealed such a grasp of  God’s word
that, in the eyes of the pope, he seemed to “contain”
 within himself the whole of Sacred Scripture.
 
 
St Anthony of Padua, pray for us!
"From Lisbon, out of Portugal ... He went to Italy ... And there confounded heretics ... And conquered heresy ... He was God's holy orator ... Who spread the gospel true ... And whose great ardor made him one ... Of His selected few ... The legends now are legion  of ... His miracles on earth ... The patron saint of barren wombs ... And those that promise birth ... He also is the patron of ... The poor and the unfed ... As hungry mouths are opened for ... St Anthony's special bread ... And many are his followers ... Who feel in heart and mind ... That any article they lose ... St Anthony will find."  ~ From Poem Portraits of the Saints - James J Metcalfe (1956)

Invite someone to Holy Mass 
- where hunger and thirst are satisfied! 
In this month dedicated to the Sacred Heart it is fitting!
 St Anthony will help find the right person to ask!

 
"The Bread of Heaven 
satisfies every taste and hunger."

St Anthony of Padua
nee Lisbon, Portugal
Italy ~ 1195-1231
Franciscan Priest, Orator, Wonder worker
DOCTOR of the CHURCH
"Hammer of the Heretics"
"Ark of the Testament"
Patron of the Poor, Patron of Lost articles
Feast Day - June 13

Painting above:  Holy Mass~ José Gallegos Arnosa


"The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey,
and those who nourish themselves with this honey
 produce sweet fruit."  - St Anthony of Padua
______________________
________________________
 
Pope Pius XII named St. Anthony
a Doctor of the Universal Church, that is,
one of the great Christian teachers of all time and a
renowned preacher of God’s word. In 1228, at age 33, he
was invited to preach before Pope Gregory IX.  Afterwards,
the pope called Anthony the  “Ark of the Testament.”
Anthony revealed such a grasp of  God’s word
that, in the eyes of the pope, he seemed to “contain”
 within himself the whole of Sacred Scripture.
 
 
St Anthony of Padua, pray for us!
"From Lisbon, out of Portugal ... He went to Italy ... And there confounded heretics ... And conquered heresy ... He was God's holy orator ... Who spread the gospel true ... And whose great ardor made him one ... Of His selected few ... The legends now are legion  of ... His miracles on earth ... The patron saint of barren wombs ... And those that promise birth ... He also is the patron of ... The poor and the unfed ... As hungry mouths are opened for ... St Anthony's special bread ... And many are his followers ... Who feel in heart and mind ... That any article they lose ... St Anthony will find."  ~ From Poem Portraits of the Saints - James J Metcalfe (1956)

Invite someone to Holy Mass 
- where hunger and thirst are satisfied! 
In this month dedicated to the Sacred Heart it is fitting!
 St Anthony will help find the right person to ask!

 
"The Bread of Heaven 
satisfies every taste and hunger."

St Anthony of Padua
nee Lisbon, Portugal
Italy ~ 1195-1231
Franciscan Priest, Orator, Wonder worker
DOCTOR of the CHURCH
"Hammer of the Heretics"
"Ark of the Testament"
Patron of the Poor, Patron of Lost articles
Feast Day - June 13

Painting above:  Holy Mass~ José Gallegos Arnosa


"The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey,
and those who nourish themselves with this honey
 produce sweet fruit."  - St Anthony of Padua
______________________
________________________
 
Pope Pius XII named St. Anthony
a Doctor of the Universal Church, that is,
one of the great Christian teachers of all time and a
renowned preacher of God’s word. In 1228, at age 33, he
was invited to preach before Pope Gregory IX.  Afterwards,
the pope called Anthony the  “Ark of the Testament.”
Anthony revealed such a grasp of  God’s word
that, in the eyes of the pope, he seemed to “contain”
 within himself the whole of Sacred Scripture.
 
 
St Anthony of Padua, pray for us!
"From Lisbon, out of Portugal ... He went to Italy ... And there confounded heretics ... And conquered heresy ... He was God's holy orator ... Who spread the gospel true ... And whose great ardor made him one ... Of His selected few ... The legends now are legion  of ... His miracles on earth ... The patron saint of barren wombs ... And those that promise birth ... He also is the patron of ... The poor and the unfed ... As hungry mouths are opened for ... St Anthony's special bread ... And many are his followers ... Who feel in heart and mind ... That any article they lose ... St Anthony will find."  ~ From Poem Portraits of the Saints - James J Metcalfe (1956)

Invite someone to Holy Mass 
- where hunger and thirst are satisfied! 
In this month dedicated to the Sacred Heart it is fitting!
 St Anthony will help find the right person to ask!

 

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