Prayers, etc.:
* 04:00 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* 05:00 – Jn 10:22-30
* 20:15 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Tuesday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* 20:20 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for 27 April, St. Peter Canisius, C D
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Sorrowful Mysteries.
Diet:
* 07:00 – bowl of oatmeal
* 13:30 – bowl of pancit
* 15:45 – dish of ice cream
* 19:00 – munching on cheese
Chores, etc.:
* 05:20 – The Height of Hypocrisy – American Thought Leaders
* 05:30 – The “Woke” Ruse – Dinesh D'Souza
* 10:00 – yard work
* 16:00 – Newsmax TV
* 18:00 – local news and weather
* 18:30 – Wheel of Fortune
* 19:00 – NCIS
* 20:40 – found the radio broadcast of tonight's Rangers/Angels game
Pruning the big bushes in the back yard is proving to be quite a project, The pile of dead branches pictured above is the result of what I accomplished this morning. Sorry about not having a readily identifiable object in the photo so you'd have an idea of the size, but I estimate the pile as roughly five feet high on average, five feet deep, and maybe fifteen or twenty feet long.
Wore me out doing that, let me tell you. Tomorrow's chore will be cutting the branches into smaller sizes and loading as much as possible into the green organics bin for the city to haul away on Thursday.
Then I'll begin pruning away the rest of the dead branches so the new growth can come up better. The picture below shows some of what I'm talking about. The green you can see is the new growth and it's really coming up fast now. With the rain we're predicted to have tonight and again tomorrow night, then the hot, sunny weekend, I'll have to hurry and get the dead wood cut and out of the way while I can still get to it.
Prayers, etc.:
* 06:05 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* 20:00 – Jn 10:1-10
* 19:50 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Monday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* 21:20 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for 26 April
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Joyful Mysteries.
Diet:
* 07:00 – bowl of oatmeal
* 10:30 – sausage, egg roll, and little snack cakes.
* 16:00 – 3 boneless pork chops
Chores, etc.:
* 06:35 – 500 Scientists Flagged for CCP Connections – Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
* 09:15 – Thunder Round! – a Right Angle
* 09:30 – started the weekly laundry
* 09:40 _ began transcribing a KofC Council business meeting
* 16:00 – MLB TV
* 17:00 – follow financial news
* 18:00 – local news and weather
* 18:30 – Wheel of Fortune
* 19:00 – MLB TV
Prayers, etc.:
* 05:00 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* 08:00 – Jn 10:11-18
* 17:20 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Sunday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* 17:30 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for 25 April, 3rd Sunday after Easter
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Glorious Mysteries.
Diet:
* 05:50 – egg rolls and sausages
* 08:30 – fresh apple slices
* 11:15 – buffet meal at Golden Corral
* 15:15 – bowl of meat and vegetables
While policing the yard this morning I noticed signs of life in that conglomeration of big bushes by the back fence. Though the big branches which have been getting bigger every year are mostly all dead, new leafy branches have sprouted up from the roots. My task now will be careful pruning: getting rid of the big dead stuff as quickly as I can so the new growth can flourish.
Prayers, etc.:
* 08:30 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* 09:10 – Jn 6:60-69
* 09:40 – No Fun At All – The Virtue Signal
* 20:15 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for 24 April, St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, M
* 20:45 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Saturday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Glorious Mysteries.
This morning and, perhaps, into the early afternoon I'll be out in the backyard with weed-eater and lawnmower trying to make things look a bit more civilized back there.
Prayers, etc.
* 06:00 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* 21:50 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for 23 April, Comm: S. George, M
* 22:05 – Jn 6:52-59
* 22:15 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Friday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Sorrowful Mysteries.
Diet:
* 07:10 – bowl of oatmeal
* 09:45 – 2 poached egg sandwiches
* 14:00 – munching on cheese
* 16:15 – dish of ice cream
* 17:00 – meat and onions, brown bread and butter
Chores, etc.:
* 07:05 – China Expands Persecutions, etc. – Crossroads
* 11:15 – Biden's Foreign Policy – Bill Whittle
* 13:45 – MLB TV – Cubbies vs Brewers
* 15:45 – NTD News
* 18:00 – local news and weather
* 18:30 – Wheel of Fortune
* 19:00 – MLB TV
Prayers, etc,:
* 05:10 – Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel
* 10:10 – Jn 6:44-51
* 17:00 – Pater Noster...
* 18:00 – Ave Maria..
* 21:30 – The Hour of Vespers according to the Traditional Catholic Breviary: Bible readings, prayers, and meditations for 22 April, SS Soter & Caius, BB, MM
* 21:45 – Fr. Chad Rippberger's Prayer of Command to protect my family, my sons, my daughter and her family, my granddaughters and their families, my great grandchildren, and everyone for whom I have responsibility from any demonic activity; and The Thursday Prayers of the Association of the Auxilium Christianorum.
* Tonight's Five Decades of the Rosary before bed will be the Joyful Mysteries.
Chores, etc.:
* 05:00 – listening to local talk radio
* 06:30 – A Spiritual Catastrophe – Bill Whittle
* 06:45 – The Verdict – Dinesh D'Souza
* 07:10 – updated KofC Assembly email roster
* 11:30 – took phone call from GK
* 13:45 – MLB TV
* 15:00 – Have finished another round of KofC committee work
* 18:00 – local news and weather
* 18:30 – watch Wheel of Fortune
* 19:00 – watch old eps of NCIS with Sylvia
Chess:
* 15:10 – have moved in all pending CC games
Like many of you, I suppose, I have way too many apps on my phone. To keep things organized, I store links for the most commonly used apps in folders. There's a “Social” folder, a “TV, Radio” folder, a “Games” folder, a “Shopping” folder, a “Utilities” folder, and several others.
This morning I was more than a little surprised to find two brand new widgets staring at me! I've got them circled in red in the screenshot above. I did NOT put them there.
Now, I know what they link to, at least in part. The USPS Mobile app allows easy access to several Post Office services that I use, usually from links in emails, other times from a browser on my laptop. And the QR Code links to a nifty personal information sharing tool I experimented with on my laptop recently.
BUT at no time did I download these apps to my phone, and I certainly never stuck their widgets in my phone's Utilities folder. I wonder who did.
Then I see this article about the Postal Service clandestinely monitoring social media posts of conservatives, and I wonder again about the mysterious appearance of those apps on my phone this morning.
