It started snowing last night. I had just come back from a visit to my distant cousins in Ek en Wiel. We are related through my maternal grandmother. I visited them for the first time in the spring of 2011 and you might remember the picture of the mating storks, see https://cometosea.us/?p=1833 on their farm. It was sunny and frosty and a beautiful ride through heather fields, old farms and the well preserved medieval town of Amerongen, just a ferry ride across the Lek river to my destination. Karel and Ankie are going skiing for two weeks and they twisted my arm to house sit from next week Thursday. This gives me a couple days after I leave here from Soest to check on the boat and have a choir rehearsal. We will be singing Fauré’s Requiem mass for Easter. And I might join the choir for a four day trip around Ascension to go to Rome where we will be singing the liturgy for one of the Ascension Day services in the St. Peter Cathedral.
I wen to 10 a.m. mass. This time there was a priest, an excellent small choir and more of the faithful. Corrine came by train for a visit and my sister and her husband also came in the afternoon. It was a beautiful cold crisp day for a walk with Blanda in the woods.
