Sunday

Listening to the Sunday Gospel and homily in German on Hallow just now, I discovered that, as the older son in the story of the prodigal son complains that he and his friends never got to have even a goat, the word used was “Ziegenbock”. Like the beer.

I mentioned this to my husband, and he commented that the beer has a ram on it. Sure enough, eine Ziege is a goat and ein Bock is a ram. So, a Ziegenbock is a male goat, a billygoat.

How fun to discover! I love when worlds cross. Haha And now we know why it’s called Ziegenbock… not because of the brewing type, but because of the animal’s name.

Upon further quick researching, I also found that the name Bock in the first place was an accented pronunciation of the name of a town, which was where the beer type was brewed. Einbeck, the town name, was referenced as ein Bock, a ram. And the beer they brewed in Einbeck was forever called ein Bock, a Bock. I didn’t dive deeply, so could be only partly true or not at all true. But makes a lot of sense, if it is true!

Pretty silly and cool to know now!

Also, we did a gender reveal photo shoot today. And I messed up big time. I was able to fix it to a reasonable photo in the end, pulling from the video I had my mom hold for me next to me. But my awesome photo angle ended up completely missing the flour bomb of color. I was and am somewhat crushed, and I think I need to cry about it briefly. However, I really hope we get to do it again, now that we all have learned better how to do it. Perhaps we’ll just re-do it one day this week to get it fully right. Not too likely to pan out, but it could happen! I’m hoping it does, because it is super cool as an idea, and it’s way cool that we get to do it. I’d be super down for doing it regularly for folks. Truly.

Dear Lord, thank you for keeping everyone safe today and for the good and comfortable weather. Please, heal our daughter’s digestion. Make my husband and our daughter and me well, please, and keep us safe and together. Help us to create wonderful things together as a family. Thank you for our family and for our home. Guide us clearly in our next step always. In your name, I pray. Amen.

Post-a-day 2025