Blessed Beginning of the New Year
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January 29, 2023Our New Year is off to an exciting start. Larry traveled to Rome for the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI - so happy to be back in his favorite city. A working trip, he managed to write articles on Pope Benedict for Catholic World Report, Our Sunday Visitor, and the National Catholic Register. While there, he was blessed to meet up and share meals with others in the city to pay homage to BXVI, including George Weigel, Jonathan Liedl from the National Catholic Register, JD Flynn and Ed Condon of The Pillar, and Ratzinger Prize recipient Dr. Tracey Rowland, professor at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. It was an amazing trip!
Back at the farm, Carmina needed some help loading the hay into the barn. Some of her students from Maria Kaupas Academy came to her rescue! Much thanks to Joseph and Jacob for making three trips to get 75 bales of hay stored for the rest of the winter.
The Misericordia University students are back for a new semester and ready to work! The group helped clean out the chicken coop - a nasty chore, but better in the cold weather because the stench is not as bad.
We are hopeful that our two does are pregnant and expect kid goats in the spring. Larry plans to be milking all summer long. The sheep were not bred this year - having bred the goats. we are mindful of the limits of the pasture to handle too many animals. So no little lambs this spring, but still wonderful fleece!
The chickens have been very productive - we are getting about a dozen eggs a day from 15 hens. We are happy to supply them to those experiencing the current egg shortage crisis. Some of our larger families in the area have been quite affected (including our Joseph and Jacob above - growing boys need their protein!).
We want to express our gratitude to everyone who contributed to Larry’s trip to Rome, both financially and through prayer. We are now a 501 (c) 3 tax-exempt organization. If the Holy Spirit moves your heart to support our work on the farm and in the Catholic blogosphere, we can accept checks made payable to Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, or online donations through Larry’s blog here.
Let us pray for one another!
