Our Chicks Have Hatched! (At Least Two Of Them)

     At last, the long awaited moment! At 7:30 in the morning, Josh runs outside. In a few moments he runs back in and shouts: A chick has hatched! We all rush out, and there it was. A bedraggled, half dead chick, but still it was cute. Sadly, since then, the first chick has died, but another one has hatched, as cute as cute can be. Here are some pics and movies for you to see!

Here's the first one, barely alive.

Here is Fatty, aka as Stoops or Broody, with her two 

hatched chicks. 

And here is the healthy one. So cute!

A Little Catchup

Pictures of a few recent (for the most part) events on our poor neglected family blog!

Therese's Solemn Communion

She is top right (in the shade)

Chris finally gets his 8th grade grad dinner at Mirror Lake Inn

Meghan becomes a member of the FSSPX Third Order

Chicks!

       

    There are 18 eggs under one of our chickens. She has now been sitting on the for almost 2 weeks. We are all very excited to have chicks again!

                                                      How Chickens Hatch
                                                                                By Joshua Hickman
                                                                                       Illustrated by Joshua Hickman

                           In a chicken farm there was a hen. Just a minute ago she laid an egg
                           She does not get up. She sits on that egg every day.

                     She lays eggs day after day and turns them with her beak. If the chicken sits
                     on the eggs for twenty-one days a chick will pop out.

                                                   Inside the egg there is a tiny white spot.

                               Every day the tiny white spot inside the egg gets bigger and bigger.

                                           In seven days the white spot will form into a chick.

                                In ten days inside the egg the chick already has a beak and feet.
                                He does not have a comb because he is not big.

                                  As the chick gets bigger, it gets nourishment from the yolk.

                                     The chick is getting so bug that he can hardly fit inside the shell.

                             It is hard work for the mother hen because she does not eat or drink.
                             She gets really thin. If she gets off the egg, the chick will die.

 

Sometimes she runs out and gets food, but she runs back before the eggs get cold.

Soon the chick can't fit in the egg, so it pecks at the shell

and tries to squeeze out. Then he rests. He tries again. It takes

eight hours to hatch.

When eight hours are over, the chick comes out. He is wet and cold.

       

All the new chicks go to the hen and they all go to sleep.

When they are ready they follow their mother and copy everything she

does.

THE END!

We can't wait!

Pictures will be posted!!! 

 

 

Saint John Bosco

Happy Feast of Saint John Bosco!!

        One of THE best Saints!!

Some of these are real pictures and a few of them are drawings. I will write "real" and "drawing" under them. 

    Tonight we are watching the four hour Italian movie " Don Bosco Mission to Love" One of my favorite movies. Saint John Bosco has done much for me and I admire him greatly! I do not know about the rest of the family, but he is on my short list of saints that I am dedicated to!

     

REAL

A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF ST. JOHN BOSCO

JOHN BOSCO
(1815-1888)
Beatified 2-5-1929
Canonized 1-4-1934

Born in Castlenuovo d'Asti on August 16, 1815, John was educated in the faith and in living according to the Gospel message by his mother. He was just nine years old when he had a dream, which called him to dedicate himself to the education of young people. While still a boy he began to entertain his peers with games alternated with work, prayer and religious education.

On becoming a priest (1841) he chose as his life's programme: "Da mihi animas cetera tolle" ("Give me souls, take all the rest" Gen. 14: 21). He began his apostolate among poor young people with the founding of the Oratory, which he placed under the patronage of St. Francis of Sales.

He Led Young People to Meet Christ 
By means of his educational style and pastoral practice, based on reason, religion and loving kindness (the Preventive System) he led young people to reflect, to meet Christ and their brothers and sisters, to the study of the faith and to apostolic, civil and professional commitment. St. Dominic Savio stands out among the most outstanding fruits of his work.

The source of his indefatigable activity and of the effectiveness of his work was his "constant union with God" and his unlimited confidence in Mary Our Help who he considered to be the inspiration and support of his whole work.

WORK AND TEMPERANCE


He left, as an inheritance for his Salesian sons and daughters, a form of religious life that was simple but founded on solid Christian virtue and on contemplation in action, which may be summed up in the words "work and temperance".

He sought his best collaborators among his young people, thus establishing the Society of St. Francis of Sales (Salesians). Together with St. Maria Domenica Mazzarello he founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters).

Finally, together with good and hard-working lay men and women, he created the Salesian Cooperators to work alongside him and sustain the education of young people, thus anticipating new forms of apostolate in the Church. In the centenary of his death, which took place on January 31, 1888, Pope John Paul II proclaimed him The Father and Teacher of Youth.

Here are some more pictures...

REAL: Saint John Bosco hearing confessions

REAL

REAL

DRAWING

DRAWING, but based on a real picture and it is identical!

REAL

"All past persecutors of the Church are now no more, but the Church still lives on. The same fate awaits modern persecutors; they, too, will pass on, but the Church of Jesus Christ will always remain, for God has pledged His Word to protect Her and be with Her forever, until the end of time."

- Don Bosco

"Believe me... nobody can be truly happy in this world unless he is at peace with God."

- Don Bosco

"What do the pleasures of this world amount to? What is not eternal is worth nothing. Those who allow their passions to rule them, overtaken by death and buried in the eternal flames of hell will shriek in tears: "Fools that we were and how dreadfully wrong!""

- Don Bosco

"Act today in such a way that you need not blush tomorrow."

- Don Bosco

"...The model which every Christian has to copy is Jesus Christ. No one can boast that he belongs to Jesus Christ if he does not endeavor to imitate Him. Consequently, in the life and in the actions of a Christian, the life and the actions of Jesus Christ Himself should be revealed."

 Saint John Bosco

" Direct every action to the Lord by saying,"Lord I offer You this Work, please bless it.""

Don Bosco