Saturday 12 June 2010

Awake: 6:36am    Temp 65    sleep 6+58    mostly sunny    overnight @ Nicktown.

Today Kathy & I are going our separate ways; she will be joining the Foote family who will attend the Indiana, PA air show @ the Jimmy Steward Airport. I will join Florentz & Al & ride with them to the Catholic Men's Fellowship Conference @ St. Francis University in Loretto, PA. After eating a healthy "Kathy muffin", we both left about the same time.

This is the 3^rd yr that I'll be attending this gathering & I get a lot out of it. We had (2) really good speakers today: Richard Lane, Jr. who converted from a Lutheran to a Catholic & travels across the country as an Evangelist. He certainly woke us up this morning & had little difficulty keeping us awake.

The 2^nd speaker was Fr. Brian Cavanaugh; he was all about words, quotations, anecdotes & stories. Over the yrs he has compiled over (45) hand-written journals which resulted in (6) books & (2) video tapes published & produced by Paulist Press. As a group, we had a difficult time sneaking a nap with his talk also.

About 3:30pm, we all went to confession; there must have been a dozen Franciscan Friars ready & waiting for us to pay them a holy visit.

Next, just down the street, lunch: cafeteria style, & that was great, especially the chocolate ice cream. Then we returned to the auditorium for the 2^nd phase of Richard & Brian.

Our conclusion was attending 4:00pm Mass @ the chapel with Bishop Joseph presiding. Just listening to @ least (100+) men singing in the chapel was another wow! Oh, what a day for us catholic men!

Kathy reported a good, but very hot day with the Footes. After walking from the Foote house to the library, they took the air conditioned shuttle bus to the Jimmy Stewart Airport.  They walked around, looked at a few airplanes: C-54, P-40 & another oldie (there weren't that many there) & exhibits & were ready to catch the shuttle back to the library an hour later.

All went in the library where Melissa & Kevin selected 100 children's books for check out while Kathy played with the boys.

After the hot walk back to the Foote Castle, Andrew seemed more tired than usual. Melissa took his temp -103 degrees & within a few minutes he had a febrile seizure. Melissa & Kevin gently cared for Andrew while Kathy took Matthew & Nathan upstairs to play on the 3^rd floor.

While Andrew relaxed on the couch, the rest had a snack & went outside. Andrew was up, but not very peppy (temp, 102) before Kathy left about 3:45 to attend the 4:00 pm Mass at St. Thomas More in Indiana. She made a stop at Wal-Mart & got back about 7:00 pm.

Kathy had some leftover Singapore Chicken & due to such a great lunch, I was content to simply have some popcorn & mixed nuts while watching the movie: "Duck Soup." Our movie guide gave this a (4) star rating. Well, Kathy wasted no time & within minutes, she was out; I hung in there watching closely & hoping for a better story. It never redeemed itself. (4) stars my foot.

Lights out: 12:26am.