COOL FALL WEATHER IS HERE

Finally had to turn the heat on in the house yesterday, October 5.  We have had rain off and on the past week and the weather, especially the last two or three days, has been very cool.  Saturday morning my thermometer had 39 degrees and this morning 40 degrees.  And I always thought that Conception had a lot of wind, but I am beginning to believe that Nebraska even has more windy days than we do at Conception.

At any rate all is still going well.  It seems that the days pass by very fast.  Of course I am pretty busy until about noon with two Masses and then visiting the residents in the nursing home.  Most days I get back here to my house between 11:00 and 11:30 AM.  The afternoons also seem to go fast as I spend the time reading, working on the computer, and preparing homilies.  I give a brief homily everyday at both Masses.

The abbot has informed me that he will be up in this area October 18-19.  He will be in Grand Island for a workshop and then stop by here on Friday afternoon, but has to leave again on Saturday morning.  My only living brother, Harold, who is now a widower, also plans to spend a few days with me beginning on October 16.  One of his children will drive him up and another one then come up to take him back home.  I am happy he is not trying to drive that distance all alone -- he will be 87 years old in December.

Many of you probably heard on the news about the tornado the other evening at Wayne, Nebraska.  That is not far from here but we had nothing at all that evening.  Two or three of the Sisters from here live and work in Wayne, but they were not in the tornado.  I guess there was a lot of damage. On the radar you could see how the storm went to the north of us.  We do get a few television stations from Sioux City and so they were giving full time to the storm and tornadoes that night

The days are certainly getting short.  When I first arrived here it was daylight when I left the house to go to the monastery about 6:00 AM.  Now it is still dark but fortunately there is plenty of lighting around so I can find my way.

Ever so often I like to put some older pictures on my blog site so here are a couple for this edition.

Back in the days when I was growing up we all did our own butchering.

The picture above shows my Dad (on the left) and two of

his brothers, Matthew and Otto helping to butcher a hog. 

This has always been one of my favorite old pictures of

the five boys in our family.  In our bib overalls and

straw hats.  Left to right:  Jim, Harold, Ed, Raymond and me.

My brother Harold and I are the only two still living.

Have a good week and God bless each of you.

My e-mail:  kenneth@conception.edu

My photo site:  http://http://kennethosb.smugmug.com/