Don’t punish the disability

Yesterday as Jerry and I drove into Austin I read the scriptures for today’s Mass readings.  The gospel was Jesus’ parable about the King who invited people to his son’s wedding feast, but everybody was too busy, saying “Nah, I gotta work this weekend” or “Sorry, I already have plans.” Well, words to that effect. …

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Oh what a relief…

Kyle and the mountain of lettuce So, for the past five weeks or so I’ve been grappling with the kitchen.  The Pavilion kitchen.  The kitchen through which runs all the food consumed by the Ranch every day.  Which is a lot. Last week we hired Miss Gigi to run it.  Gigi actually knows what she’s…

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We need your help

 The Bastrop County fires as seen from Hwy 71 (Photo by HippieChickenFarmer)  Back in the early 90s we didn’t think much about fire here at the Ranch, until the day I headed up the trail to have lunch at the little farmhouse we had bought and moved adjacent to the Ranch. Jerry was…

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God’s in his heaven

St. Francis watches over the Benedict House garden Yesterday Jerry sent me to Bloomer’s to buy some winter vegetable starts for the garden. I loaded my little red wagon and was enjoying walking around the premises looking at all the beautiful plants and fountains and such. Bloomer’s started up just about the same time the…

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