I finished The Diary of a Country Priest. It was nice. I had seen the movie years ago so I knew the general plot and ending. I have a couple of other books here in queue - Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald and Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler. Still plugging away at Congar and De Sales. The daily news digest script is also working very well.

Tonight I’m doing a marriage prep session and a brief (unrelated) talk on Eucharistic Adoration for a youth group. We’ll do a brief Exposition and Benediction, too.

Today it got to a glorious 70 degrees and some of the trees are showing the first haze of buds and new growth. Henbit is in full bloom and the bees are hard at work. At night the frogs are all going bananas. Sadly it won’t last; I think we swing back into the 20s this weekend before another gradual warmup. Things are at least heading in the right direction for us solar-powered people.