What's going on?

Infirmary renovation as walls start to go up.
Taken July 25, 2009

It has indeed been a while since I last wrote on this blog. Summer seems to be a more difficult time to do such things so today, on Saturday, I thought it was time to say "hello" again. This weekend I am not out in a parish. Last weekend I went to Marceline and Brookfield, MO to celebrate four Masses. Both of these towns used to have their own pastor but due to the shortage of priests they are now united, although Brookfield does have a Sister as pastoral administrator of the parish.

In the last couple of weeks I have spent a lot of time working on pictures from my 50th anniversary celebration. I put together a couple of DVD's that I could send to family. I enjoy doing these sort of things but it does take time.

My cousin who was a priest, died a few weeks ago. He was 71 years old but died after having a massive stroke. His name was Father Henry Reichert, a priest of the diocese of Jefferson City, MO. Brother Blaise and I went to his funeral at Tipton, MO where he was pastor. He also was taking care of two parishes -- the one at Tipton and also the one at California, MO. He was from a family 16 children and he is the first one to die. He grew up in the Brunswick area just a couple miles from where I grew up.

This coming week on Thursday, July 30, I will fly to Washington, DC. I have a good friend there and he and his wife did not come to my 50th celebration but wanted to send me money to fly out to see them for a few days. So I am looking forward to that. I have been to Washington, DC before but always enjoy it as there is so much to see there.

Right now I am also going through a lot of dental work on my teeth. I have neglected seeing a dentist for a number of years and now I guess I have to make up for that. As you get older you wonder if you are going to get your money's worth out of the work they do on those teeth.

Work on the infirmary continues as you can see on the picture up above. There are also a number of other projects going on this summer which we hope to complete before school begins again.

For those who are interested in seeing more photos of my jubilee celebration or of the oblate "pray and work" weekend, go to my photo site: http://kennethosb.smugmug.com/

Until the next time God bless all of you.

Fr. Kenneth

What a blessing!

Gift I received from some of my family on my 50th anniversary.

The big news this week for me is that yesterday one of my grandnephews and his wife gave birth to quadruplets. Obviously they have known for some time that she was pregnant with four babies. They were born yesterday, July 7, in Boone Hospital at Columbia. All four seem to be doing o.k. They are very small -- only about two pounds each but seem to be doing well so far. I was especially excited as they were born on my birthday. There were two boys and two girls and these are their first children. My grand nephew's last name is Reichert. So it seems the Reicherts will be around for a while yet. Say a little prayer for them that they will continue to grow and be in good health.

I am still working to get the photos together from my 50th anniversary of ordination. It takes a while to get all that done and then I would like to make a DVD for some of the family.

We have had some good rains in the past week and the heat and humidity have decreased so the weather is more bearable.

This weekend, July 10-12 is the oblate "Pray and Work" weekend. We are expecting about 35 oblates here for the weekend. We will spend a big part of the time on Saturday doing work.

That's it for this week. Prayers and blessings to all of you.