Category: Uncategorized

Hard to believe the guy we brought home from the Catholic Home Bureau at the age of five weeks is 14. Here he is in his favorite position yesterday evening – playing video games! Joe is actually having a fairly good summer. He’s finished two one week courses on computers and technology, is doing the…

A “friend” (congrats Greg, you’ve made the blog) emailed me today to point out that – For years you’ve been living in a world of dreams and delusions,blissfully skating through huge issues and coming out on the wrong sideof most of them, and all the while refusing to let us visit your secretrealm Well, here’s…

The Congregation for Doctrine issued a brief paper today on what constitutes a true Church. It’s alreday being commented on in the press, people are complaining, etc. Here is the document, which is 2 and a half pages long (excluding footnotes) and takes under four minutes to read. There is an introduction and then asks…

I’m sure that as economies in Asia grow, this is a very real possibility. Oil experts see supply crisis in five years | Business | Money | Telegraph The International Energy Agency has predicted a supply crunch in the world’s oil markets that could send prices soaring and place a severe dent in global growth.…

The two pilots in the widely publicized incident a couple of days ago are both New Yorkers, and their unit is based in Fort Drum, NY. Pilots Shot Down in Iraq Tell of Dramatic Escape – washingtonpost.com As it lost altitude, the Kiowa started to shake violently, its main rotor damaged. Burrows said he decided…

Having survived rafting on the Lehigh River last weekend Tom Faranda’s Folly: Photos from the weekend, including rafting and a friend’s retirement party , Tim and I yesterday evening went to the Hudson Valley Renegades minor league baseball game (Just the two of us, Brigid and Joe passed on this one). We went along with…

Tellers Point is the very end of Croton Point, and holds some fascination for Brigid. It’s scenic, the Indians lived there, etc. So unbeknownst to me, a couple of months ago she booked the cabin that’s furthest out on Tellers Point for a week, beginning last Wednesday, June 20th. She did it weveral months ago,…

Here are some pictures from our cub scout rafting expedition to Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh River valley. Unfortunately the only one showing the rafting is the first one, and that is a picture of the photo we bought, taken by the rafting company. I took a photo of it with the digital camera, and it…

We’re back. Excellent trip. Will post pictures later.

In a few minutes we leave for PA and the Lehigh river – rafting with Tim’s cub scout group. We’ll being camping there and then back on Sunday. Then out to Long Island for a party Sunday afternoon and evening.