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These boys were lucky to have the Jacobson Grandparents, Grandpa Gietzen, the Meyers and the Gietzen cousins at the Fair to support and encourage them in their first sheep showing.  The boys, and their mother, learned a lot!

Who’s your hero?

O models of pious and virtuous married persons, St. Joachim and St. Anne! Through the wondrous blessing with which God rejoiced you when He chose you as the parents of the ever blessed Virgin, the mother of our Savior, obtain for us, we beseech you, the grace to desire nothing but virtue and piety; that, in fidelity and love, we may share each other’s joys and sorrows, and together with our children lead such a life as to insure our entrance into the kingdom of heaven! Amen.

A dear friend just sent me this…

“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”–St. Thomas Aquinas