Hayride Event

     Sorry that I missed yesterday.  I ran out of time and of ideas.  But today is a different story.

     Tonight I attended an event sponsored by our regional school, Queen of Angels, and hosted by a local dairy farm - Kerbers.  As part of Kerber's October Pumpkin Days, many of our families gather at the fifty year old dairy to play at the Lilliput playground, or new miniature golf, or play tag football, or go on a hayride through the fields of the farm.  In addition, they serve great ice cream, and you got a small pumpkin to take home.  I skipped the hayride, had a pumpkin pie cheesecake milkshake (ummm), and socialized with the kids and their families, and Monsignor Paul Fitzmaurice of Saint Agnes, my ordination mate and neighbor.  Everyone seemed to have a great time.  The weather cooperated with warmth and a beautiful sunset (after many days of rain and cold).  Our kids are friendly and outgoing, and we are very proud of them.

     The Kerber Farm is operated by father and son, Tom Sr. & Jr, and is well known in our area, and has been featured in a local documentary by Rick Sebek entitled "An Ice Cream Story" on PBS.  They are good people, always generous with the school, and we thank them.

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     This morning I had the funeral Mass for our parishioner, Ron Auld.  Ron suffered with MS, yet gave great love and shared great faith with his family and friends, as evidenced by those in attendance.  Father Rick Kosisko, our former pastor and a friend of Ron's, joined me and preached.  Ron was also a staunch Notre Dame fan, and somewhere, as we were leaving church, I heard the strains of the Notre Dame Fight Song!  May he rest in peace.