{"id":4039,"date":"2007-12-11T18:53:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T18:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:38:13","slug":"big-tim-turns-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4039","title":{"rendered":"Big Tim turns 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yup. Day before yesterday. All 135 lbs of him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interestingly, his birthday, Dec. 9th, is the feast of St. Juan Diego, the Indian who our Lady of Guadelupe appeared to. And Brigid&#8217;s birthday is Dec. 12th, the actual Feast of Our Lady of Guadelupe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of Tim being given his trophy last week for participating in the Ossining tackle football 5th and 6th grade Little League. His coach, Dan Rivie is giving him the trophy, and called him an &#8220;impact player.&#8221; He said how glad he was Tim would be playing for him next year, since he is only in the 5th grade.&nbsp; Tim played on both the offensive and defensive lines. Go here for some good pictures of him from a game vs. Pleasantville this past season&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2007\/10\/how-i-spend-my-.html\"><strong>Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: How I spend my weekends<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_fottball_cropped-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10004\" title=\"Tim_fottball_cropped\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_fottball_cropped-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_fottball_cropped-1-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, the day before Tim&#8217;s birthday, we went to the always-wonderful Carusi Open House Christmas Party. Tim is being congratulated by our friend Harley Grifiths<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_008.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10005\" title=\"Tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_008.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_008-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a vintage Tim series of shots, at his birthday dinner on Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_018.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10006\" title=\"Tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_018.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_018-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10007\" title=\"Tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_019.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_019-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/12\/11\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_020.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10008\" title=\"Tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_021.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_021-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10009\" title=\"Tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_022.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_022-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who&#8217;s the Man!! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10010\" title=\"Tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_023.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/tim_11th_birthday_stuff_121107_023-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup. Day before yesterday. All 135 lbs of him. Interestingly, his birthday, Dec. 9th, is the feast of St. Juan Diego, the Indian who our Lady of Guadelupe appeared to. And Brigid&#8217;s birthday is Dec. 12th, the actual Feast of Our Lady of Guadelupe. Here&#8217;s a picture of Tim being given his trophy last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10011,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}