Another one...

Well, it looks like one more of my "Ruthless Brood" has left the roost.

Benedict, the farthest on the left has left to start a journey to Parris Island. I pray he will do well and that the Marines will be good for him. It's hard to bring a child into this world, raise him the best you can and before you know it, they are out the door trying new adventures...

Merry Christmas

to all!!!

Happy 237th!!

to UNCLE SAM'S MISCREANT CHILDREN!!

RIP Neil Armstrong

I remember this watching in at my grandfather's Summer Bungalow in Massepequa, NY back in 1969! Too bad the era ended SO quickly!!

Réquiem ætérnam dona ei  Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat ei. Requiéscat in pace. Amen. 

He's out of my life...

Thursday morning my daughter's boyfriend, died in his sleep of heart failure. I first met him on Thanksgiving 2006. It was an Ann Landers moment, where your daughter brings home a person you rather she didn't. I kept my mouth shut while he acted like he shouldn't. I felt like Archie Bunker must've felt when he first met the meathead. (Heck, I had him in my phone as "Carne Cabeza"!)

He did enjoy Thanksgivings with us. I remember a time on the Thanksgiving of 2008 when we played a family football game in the front yard ala the Kennedys. He enjoyed it as did we all.

He was an only child and was 14 years older than my daughter. He wasn't a bad sort, just undisciplined and goofy. At times, he was a pain in the neck. His passing was a shock for someone so young yet it was something you could see coming!

Here's a video of him messing around with dead lifts this past July 4th.

Anyway, I hope he's at some form of peace. I think he wanted to do the Catholic thing, but found it hard.

Réquiem ætérnam dona ei  Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat ei. Requiéscat in pace. Amen.

(They say death comes in threes. First, my brother-in-law, now him. Who's next?)

And when I die...

PLEASE do NOT have OLD women being altar servers at any Mass or memorial service for me!!

These dreams...

Funny how when someone dies, you start seeing them while walking around in thar faces of people you come across. Also in dreams...

Had a dream last night that was very vivid. My brother-in-law was going to be a consultant on a project I was working on, It was so real. I did not realize that he was dead until I woke up. Weird!

We are be flowers in the summer sun...

Today my eldest brother-in-law passed away. He had been suffering from CADASIL for the better part of 40 years. For the past four years he had suffered from heart attack, multiple strokes, and Kidney cancer. This was very tough on his family. He was an intelligent vibrant man who was cut down in the prime of life. We didn't agree on all that much out side of family and the Faith being important. All in all, he was a nice man who will be greatly missed.

Come Holy Ghost...

Creator Blest, and in our hearts take up thy rest...

Hope everyone has a wonderful Pentecost! (Even the Crazy maniacs!!)

Pentecost was of 1969 was the 1st time I got to read the from the Act of the Apostles, but that was long ago...

Happy Feast of the Ascension of the Lord...

...The US bishops decided it was TOO HARD to require Catholics to attend Mass today, soooo they pushed it to the next Sunday. And we wonder why Catholics are being forced to pay for abortions and sterilizations AND contraception AND accept, no EMBRACE Same Sex Marriage!!!