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I did something special last night. I went out on a date. And for my date I had my seventy-seven year old mother. As it turns out the Pope’s choir (the official name is The Choir of the Pope’s Diocese) was making their first American tour, and besides performing at some of the major churches and theaters in the New York tri-state area they also were scheduled to perform at a church in my old neighborhood in Brooklyn. You can read about them and the tour here: http://www.corodiocesidiroma.com/usa/. ...

A couple of weeks ago, we went camping again. This time we went a bit further afield, to the Forest of Dean which is on the English/Welsh border, towards the South of England close to Bristol. The campsite is called Christchurch and is operated by Forest Holidays. It's really reasonably priced, especially compared to the last campsite, and the facilities are good and clean. If you were thinking of camping near the Forest of Dean, I'd recommend it. There's a further campsite called Bracelands a little ...

Networking.


The search for a new bull has been intense and depressing. I had to sell my own bull -Blondel - because I had kept some of his daughters and they are now of breeding age. My neighbour was going to share with me at a bull this spring – neither of us has many cows so it seemed sensible, we could pool resources, get a quality sire and run our herds together.

The trouble is cattle prices are at an all time high, (unlike when I sold Blondel) and bulls ...

It's been awhile since Ive written here, or written at all, for that matter. I have missed it a lot, and like others before me wondered if I'd ever write again.

Maybe. I don't know yet. All I know is I can feel the urge, long suppressed, begin to stir.

It's about time-and it feels good.


Calla Lily

oppress me with your beauty, white maiden,
press against my soul, make it smaller
with your large desire
dance ...

I got to go to my favoirte little bookstore again, so here is what I got this time:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest~Ken Kessy
Underworld~Don DeLillo
The Borgia Bride~Keanne Kalogridis
Passage~Connie Willis
The Thirteenth Tale~Diane Setterfield
Sea Fights and Shipwrecks~Hanson W. Baldwin