Hello on Sunday

Dear Friends,

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mother’s on my e-mail list including the mother’s to be.

I hope that everyone takes time out today to reflect on what all mothers have gone through, and continue to go through with respect to making our world a better place to live.
Mothers still rule the family no matter how much the male participates in child rearing.
Even though our children have left the nest, and now have families of their own, the families are Matriarchal.
Linda still rules our home after 38 years of marriage.
Us males always need someone to smooth off the rough edges. For me, Linda realizes it continues to be a work in progress.

Well, the temperature outside right now is 35 degrees with a stiff wind blowing. I decided to turn the heat back on. The weather channel predicts that we will reach no higher than the middle 40’s.
Of course, this always happens after we get a tease of summer weather, and right after I install the air conditioners in the three bedrooms.
We have a freeze advisory for us in the Berkshires starting at 6 PM this evening. This is why we never plant flowers until Memorial Day or the first week of June.

Sports – I couldn’t bear to watch my Red Sox getting beat up once again by the New York Yankees on Saturday in a rain delayed game. The Red Sox appear to be mediocre right now. The Yankees look like World Series Champions once again. I am going to use what the Yankees fans always used to tell us Red Sox fans when the tables were reversed: “It is early in the season!”

Yesterday went okay. Linda had decided to work in her closets, but it didn’t happen. Her girlfriends seemed to have the urge to talk to her on the telephone. She carried on 30 minute + conversations all day long. She gave up working on her closets.
I spent the day doing a little reading, and puttering around the inside of the house before I took a wonderful afternoon nap.

For supper, we used one of those Radio Auction discount coupons, and went off to an Italian restaurant. The food was excellent, and we both couldn’t finish our meals.

Linda talked to Danielle yesterday afternoon. She had arrived home an hour before Linda made the call. Circumcised, Gabriel Michael Curley and his Mom are doing very well. Linda asked Danielle and Mike to send some new pictures of “Gabe.”
Isabelle seemed to be in awe of her new brother.

Social Calendar – As of this moment, we have decided that we are going to do brunch at the Italian American Club. After brunch we will come home and wait for a telephone call from a friend who will be celebrating Mother’s Day in Worcester with her Mom and other family members. When they arrive back home in the Berkshires, we will hook up with them for a beverage or two and conversation. Their daughter, who works at the western end of the country, is in between jobs. She is back east for a short amount of time, and we haven’t seen her in many months. Oh, I almost forgot that Linda is her godmother!

We have a busy start to the up coming week at least through Wednesday. I want to play golf, but if you asked me to play on a day like today, I would definitely decline. The temperature has dropped two degrees since I started this e-mail.
I also see that where our son who lives in Kansas, has a severe storm watch with the potential of tornadoes for several hours.

Well the news story of a guy who is legally named “Lord Jesus Christ” being hit while crossing a side walk would make national news. It was on the front page of The Berkshire Eagle on Saturday. A Berkshire County 20 year old female from Dalton (5 miles from Pittsfield) hit “Jesus” in a crosswalk in a town about 40 minutes from Pittsfield. Like our son Michael said: “It could only happen in wacky Massachusetts!”

Well, I have to read the two Sunday newspapers, and grab a second cup of coffee.
Have a great Sunday.
Talk to you soon. The Curley Lad