Day Three Findings

Today it was 9 degrees out, the coldest day so far.   It was sunny and still out so it didn't feel as bad as it could have.   It actually was a beautiful walk.   The crisp air felt good; I felt alive!    

I found a bunch of flare wires, six lead wheel weights, a couple of hubcap rings, a Ford hubcap, some assorted black rubber objects, some shiny objects to add to my collection, a bent up metal muffler shield? a metal pin, a five sided wire object, a sunglass lens, a thin copper bar, a cool green stemmed wire flower like object, some more Botanica cards including a nice big one with Sra. Esperanza on the front, a bracelet with fake gems, and a brown plastic hair beret thing.   Took a photograph of a dead red teddy bear lying along the road as well.  

A little background on Sra. Esperanza curtesy of Wikipedia. 

"Bianchini was the mother of seven children and grandmother of 20 children.[4]

Believers claim that, while at one point Maria Esperanza considered becoming a nun, it was revealed to her in a vision on October 3, 1954 that her calling was to the married life,[2] It is said that in this vision of St. John Bosco, the saint told her she would first encounter her spouse on November 1, 1955, which she reportedly did.[2] She was particularly devoted to St Thérèse of Lisieux – the “Little Flower”. Believers hold that, from her youth, she lived a life of virtue and fidelity to God and received the gifts of supernatural knowledge, healing, visions, discernment of spirits, locution, ecstasy, levitation, the odor of sanctity, the stigmata, and the ability to read the hearts of others.[5]Witnesses claim to have seen her levitating during mass and engaging in bilocation.[6] Her legend also recounts that Maria received the spiritual direction and the mantle ofSaint Padre Pio,[2] and received in the presence of her husband a bilocated visitation from the saint the day before he died.[7]

In 1979 she created the Betania Foundation, a lay movement designed to evangelize, educate and develop the well-being of society and family life and promote social justice. Her family continues the mission of the foundation.[4] " (Wikipedia) "Her full name is Maria Esperanza de Bianchini (November 22, 1928 - August 7, 2004) also known as Servant of God Maria Esperanza.   She was a Venezuelan mystic born on the feast of Saint Cecilia in Barrancas Venezuela.   The reason she is called "Servant of God" and not saint is because while her Marian Apparitions were approved at the local level by the bishop, they were not by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, which has only approved 12 apparitions to date. " 

Wow, she had seven children and did all this!?   It's hard enough with one let alone seven.   This woman deserves to be a saint.  She's got my vote!