Big time changes
Hello everyone (or whoever actually reads this)!
In the past month, I have:
- completed my time at St. Anne's and Holy Family in Saskatoon,
- moved to Watson as pastor there (plus Englefeld and St. Gregor),
- got a new Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier puppy named Chloe (!!), and
- as a result of the above, built a fence with some great help from David and a couple of parishioners.
I was originally planning to get a dog in the fall, allowing for more time to build a fence and move in and unpack. Then Fr. David texted me on the day that I moved in, saying that the same breeder that Neulla came from had one more Wheaten puppy available. Would I be able to come into Saskatoon on Monday to look at the puppy?
Well, the thing about "looking at the puppy" is that one never merely looks at the puppy. Invariably, puppy has a new home. Even though most of my home was still in boxes. Her name is Chloe, which was one of the top-ten most common baby girl names in Ireland a couple of years ago... and I needed an Irish name for an Irish dog.
Aside: I was originally thinking of getting a male Wheaten, who I would then name Wil(ly). Get it? How about now? :-)
The parishes are going along fairly well. It's summer, so there isn't a whole lot going on, and this has been nice for allowing me to settle in. I do have two funerals this week, though, which makes it a bit busier for me. Next week I will start some holidays with a trip to Regina to take in the Roughrider game. Then it's off to Nipawin for my 15 year high school reunion and a little event known as Elaine and Brendan's wedding. Since I'm preaching, does anyone have any good stories that may have a theological application? :-)
Oh, and finally: I updated the blog software to WordPress 3.0.1. If you notice any problems, please let me know.
Photos of the new place and puppy.
- Darryl
Web page updates?!
Umm. So this is getting to be a bit of a familiar refrain, unfortunately. I've been pretty busy as of late and therefore have been unable to update my web page on a regular basis.
(If you're reading this on Facebook and you're wondering what I'm referring to, check here: http://www.darryldot.org.)
Anyway, I'm finally getting around to doing some updates! I've changed the theme to something called Lightword. I modified it slightly, but it seems to be a generally nice and simple theme. I've also been doing some general updates to the other pages on here.
In my rare free time, I have been busy with mixing some of the recordings we did last summer. I really, really need to give the Recording page a general overhaul... stay tuned for more in that department!
In other news, congratulations to David and Roxanne! Andrew Dominic was born on January 19, 2010. Here he is, at two days old.
And also: congratulations Andy and Jane! Spencer was born on February 1, 2010.
Parish life
Parish life has been very good thus far. :-) It's been reasonably busy this week... wedding planning, a funeral, a youth camp mass, and general parish stuff to do. It can involve a fair bit of switching between happy stuff and sad stuff and everything in between. And it's a privilege to be able to be involved with it all.
Also, I've just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (2.2.2). If you encounter any problems, please let me know - webmaster@darryldot.org.
Whoa – an update!
It's been too long (once again). April was a craaazy month. Besides writing dozens and dozens of pages for papers and final exams, we celebrated the Triduum in the seminary. That was a very good - fun - and busy time. I was also called upon to sing that short little piece known as the Easter Proclamation (Exsultet) at the Easter Vigil.
Then I was headlong into finals, all the while playing some hockey. We actually won our first playoff game (against the top team in the division) but now we trail in the best-of-five series 2 games to 1.
Most recently, I was in Saskatoon to attend the first annual Bishop's Banquet and to help out in a couple of parishes. Unfortunately, I ended up catching a cold at some point and was forced to miss the installation of the Most Rev. Richard Smith as Archbishop of Edmonton last night. :-(
I just updated WordPress to the latest version - if you notice any problems, please let me know!
Notice: site maintenance
I received a notice from my web host today about a datacenter move they will be undertaking soon which will affect this web site.
I'm not sure if it will also affect the darryldot.org domain for email or not, however. My MX is set to fastmail.fm, so hopefully that will still function. Can anyone enlighten me on this?
In any case, the downtime is scheduled for 23:00 (Mountain Time), Saturday, March 3, and will go until 07:00 on Sunday, March 4.