Happy Summer!

That's Pat's famous southern fried chicken on the left as displayed at the long overdue McGrath-Cunningham family reunion held on July 1 out at Bethpage State Park on Long Island.

The families used to get together at least annually for a softball game held at Fort Tilden in Breezy Point but we stopped having them over the last few years for some reason. We kept telling each other at wakes that we needed to get together for a happy occasion so we finally got it done.

It was hot that day but we managed to get a game in where, of course, I excelled even at the advanced age of 55 as I ran rings around all those young whippersnappers, especially my wise guy three sons.

In a very recent development Kevin Jr. managed to total our '98 Hyuandi Elantra by playing bumper cars with two trucks on Woodhaven Blvd in Queens yesterday morning. He was just a bit shaken up but otherwise unharmed and he kept telling my wife, who drove out there from our house in Brooklyn and arrived way before NYPD ever showed up, "Mom, I almost s**t my pants!"

Apparently he was crusing along in the left lane and a truck in the middle lane drifted over into that same left lane and claimed he never saw the car or hear Kevin's horn. The car got spun around and almost wound up underneath another truck. After the cops finally arrived and took the information, my wife called a tow truck but that broke down and had to be towed away by still another tow truck. They finally made it home and now the Elantra sits in front of my house awaiting insurance company inspection. Looks like it will be totalled and we will wind up with book value but it was on its last legs anyway and we were going to replace it shortly.



#2 son Brian stated that they couldn't even run the Elantra into the ground on purpose and him & Kevin further observed that thank God #1 son Jimmy wasn't driving as he would have been running around and screaming like a girl, not that there is anything wrong with that.

Lefty Fires One to the Plate

That's Kevin Jr. in action for the Scranton University Royals vs Delaware Valley at historic Frank Wolfgang Field in Doylestown, Pa. He hung in there early but a lack of offense, some shoddy fielding, and giving up two hits with 0-2 counts did him and the team in as they lost the second game of the DH 4-0. They won the first game 3-1 and now have more wins this season than they had all last year. Even with the loss Kevin is happy to be pitching again after missing all of last season due to a right foot that he broke three separate times in the same spot due to a Jones fracture. We finally had to take him to get a screw put in his foot so that he could play again.

This is Your Brain on Drugs!

Well it might look like this after you ODed on Irish Soda bread. That's actually a close up picture of Grandma McGrath's Irish soda bread as prepared for baking by my better half.

I'm sitting here with the house smelling wonderful with all the fresh baking going on but I'm under doctor's orders to not eat solid food until tomorrow afternoon due to a medical procedure I had performed today. :-(

However, I should be OK to partake in my wife's annual St. Patrick's Day corned beef & cabbage dinner on this coming Saturday with some good friends in attendance.

Erin Go Bragh!

Fire in the Hole!

Well more like fire in the weeds actually as I caught the NYFD in action at the Gerritsen Creek Salt Marsh during my afternoon constitutional. There was also an NYPD helicopter circling around in the air overhead until the special weed fire truck got to the fire.

Lots of our NYC tax dollars at work here just because most likely some stupid kids started the phragmites australis ablaze for the nth time over the years. It appears to be some kind of teenage boy right of passage in the area.



The strong westerly winds that were blowing at the time were also a major problem for the firefighters to deal with:

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NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN WEATHER ROUNDUP
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY
300 PM EST SUN MAR 05 2006

CITY           SKY/WX    TMP DP  RH WIND       PRES
CENTRAL PARK   SUNNY     45  12  26 W9G21     30.02F
LAGUARDIA APRT SUNNY     45  13  27 NW23G29   30.00F
KENNEDY INTL   SUNNY     46  10  23 NW21G30   30.00F

Here's another long distance shot of the smoke from the fire about 30 minutes later taken from Marine Park's Ave S parking lot. I don't think they had it under control at this time.

Bode in Da House!

I'm proud to be an American after watching the great Bode Miller step up and go all out at the winter olympics. He's an inspiration for all American youths and I'm sure that all those sponsors who threw the big bucks at Bode are glad that they really got their money's worth.

Some may feel that Bode's a bit to layed back for their individual taste but I'm hear to tell ya from the 'hood, Brooklyn Rocks YO!, that all us homeys are down with the Bode and he can par-tea with us any time he wants.

Plus we also hear he may possibly have some game so maybe the also loser, and Spike fav, NY Knicks could use his help.

Time's Up for this Guy!

I've been listening to this obnoxious twit for more years than I wish to remember and it's now time for him to DIE! DIE! DIE!!!

Hey Button, if I hear tommorow that you dropped dead it may almost bring a tear to my eye, NOT!

Happy New Year!

That's my better half toasting the New Year with a glass of fine imported surrender monkey bubbly in our living room.

I used to like reading the For Better or For Worse comic but last Sunday's strip really rubbed me the wrong way. I can't believe that any normal male would react in such an understanding fashion. She already has the poor guy totally wipped and now she decides to nag him about how he folds the towels!!

All right men this is where we draw the non-emasculation yellow line in the snow and boycott that Canuck femanazi anal bitch's comic strip now and forever!

Male launderers of the world unite and fold the towels how you damn well please. You have nothing to lose but your excess lint dander!