Fr Mike dragged in this morning, looking really beat. He’d gotten the new (Tibetan Terrier?) puppy, to replace Mabel, on Monday. Besides all the usual harum-skarum of a puppy in the house, Archie (Mabel’s buddy-boy) was not pleased…
Fr Mike had gotten Edith a couple of stuffers, which she just loved. Archie got ahold of them, and wouldn’t let her have them back. He also dissected the squeakers out of ’em (I have a feeling there were more indignities perpetrated on the poor little things, but Fr Mike spared us the gories).
Seems like, for the nonce, the Bunkers are reigning supreme in the rectory!
26 September 2004
Hurricane Edith
The New Funny Money, er, Currency
The new $50.00 bill is set to debut this Tuesday, 28 September. Take a look at the “interactive note” at The Dept. of the Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing Web site. It’s really interesting!
Thanks to KnowledgeNews’ newsletter for tomorrow for the tip.
25 September 2004
My! Nessie Does Get Around!!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A long-necked sea reptile that lived millions of years ago in what is now China may have used its stiff neck to sneak up on unsuspecting prey and suck them in, scientists said on Friday.
Dubbed Dinocephalosaurus orientalis or “terrible-headed lizard from the Orient,” the monster had a neck 5.5 feet long, topped by a tiny head. At the other end was its big round body…
Long-Necked Sea Monster Snuck Up on Victims
On St Francis
St Bonaventure wrote:
“Francis sought occasion to love God in everything. He delighted in all the works of God’s hands and from the vision of joy on earth his mind soared aloft to the life-giving source and cause of all. In everything beautiful, he saw Him who is beauty itself, and he followed his Beloved everywhere by His likeness imprinted on creation; of all creation he made a ladder by which he might mount up and embrace Him who is all-desirable” (Legenda Major, IX, 1).
From the Saints of the Day for today, St Elzear and Blessed Delphina, from AmericanCatholic.org
24 September 2004
Advice to Preachers…
…from St Francis:
“Moreover, I advise and admonish the friars that in their preaching, their words should be examined and chaste. They should aim only at the advantage and spiritual good of their listeners, telling them briefly about vice and virtue, punishment and glory, because our Lord Himself kept his words short on earth” (St. Francis, Rule of 1223, Ch. 9).
From the Saint of the Day for today, St Pacifico of San Severino, from AmericanCatholic.org
23 September 2004
22 September 2004
Guy Kawasaki Strikes Again!
No big surprise…
His latest effort is The Art of the Start. Basically, it’s how to start up your startup, from the original evangelizer himself.
The first chapter is available for download from ChangeThis. Funny thing, though: I couldn’t download it with OmniWeb. Kept getting an internal error. It's just a .pdf… OTOH, I just got 6 “Please Confirm Your Subscription Request”s from ChangeThis (you can optionally add your e-mail address to the supplied field before clicking the download button).
Now why was the server able to pick up my e-mail addy but not able to send me the .pdf??
It’ll be interesting to see what they have to say to my feedback e-mail.
Once (if?) I get my hands on that .pdf, I’m sure I’ll have something further to say.
21 September 2004
19 September 2004
Rain Numbers - 19 September 2004
.22", for the day
.22", for the storm
.22", for the month
.24", for the (rain) year
18 April 2004
Rain Numbers - 18 April 2004
.02", for the day
.02", for the storm
.02", for the month
40.19", for the (rain) year
Springtime? Summer???
Who said anything about nice weather??
We’re definitely on the winter side of Spring now; it got up into the 50s today, and will no doubt drop to the high 30s tonight, as it has the past few nights.
03 April 2004
Mom Said…, Pt. 2
So I had to call her back.
ME doesn’t know where in the order Grandma Nellie falls. She thinks there might have been brothers, too; she’s going to check with Joan.
Lizzie's daughters (the ones ME is sure of) were Alice and Hazel; they never married. Alice came to San Francisco to live, in her old age. She lived in a hotel. ME recalls that she died four or five years after Dorothy (Dor died in 1980).
Grandpa Bill remarried into money. His second wife died before he did. He gave rings (of hers?) to Grandma Julia: Pat and Joan each got a diamond solitaire and ME got the turquoise surrounded by 12 diamonds (were there other rings, or other jewelry?). (His second wife had to have died before 1942.)
He lived?/visited? Florida for his health, and may have died there.
Molly had another daughter, Midge, who Joan characterized (the earlier generation characterized?) as “glamorous and shady”: she had beached blonde hair, was divorced… The girl ME hung out with in their infrequent visits with that side of the family may have been Midge’s daughter, rather than Ethel’s.
Kathleen Brennan’s sisters are Mary Ellen and Judy.
Jack died of peritonitis, from a ruptured appendix, at French Hospital, right by Chinatown.
01 April 2004
Mom said…
I called her 29 March, and left a message, wanting answers about Grandma Nellie’s family
Questions I wanted answered:
1) Was Grandma Nellie the oldest sister? (Actually should have been, was Grandma Nellie the youngest sister; Molly is older, by eight years.)
2) Was Molly Mary A?
3) Did Molly come to Pasadena after her husband died?
4) Where did she (Molly) live before coming to California? Chicago?
5) Did her daughter marry?
When ME called back, we were on the dock, feeding the fish, and I didn't have Tail with me… Answers I got:
1) Forgot to ask…
2) Yes
3) As far as ME knows
4) Forgot to ask; did find out that the daughter had a daughter.
Notes from the conversation:
Ethel had a daughter about Pat & Joan’s age (therefore born about 1927 - 1929; born where? Pasadena?); Mom presumed Ethel was married, but her death certificate is in the name of Ethel LeFebvre. (She could have not changed her name when she married; maybe she wasn't married [certainly not out of character in her family]; I could have the wrong Ethel LeFebvre, but her birth year [1886] and place [Illinois] fit, and the CA Death Index at RootsWeb lists her mother's maiden name as Hefferma. The CA Death Index lists no SSN for her, although she is in the SSDI.)
Lizzie married a man named Murphy (I had down that he was Johnnie Murphy), had a son named Johnnie, two daughters, and five children altogether.
Grandma Nellie and the kids came to North Dakota after Mart died; they were there some years before they left for California in 1929 (Lyle and Mary Julia were married in 1924).
When Jack Brennan died in 1936, Grandma Julia and the kids went out to California to be with Grandma Nellie.
Uncle Bill was in and out and around during these years; he’d appear and hang around for a year or so, and then go away again. Grandma Nellie finally got him admitted to the VA hospital (Sawtelle) after the move out to CA in 1929 (she had a great struggle getting it done; the Army didn’t want to admit that his problems were related to his service in WWI); he was definitely there in 1936.
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