36 Years ago today Jeremy John Mooney died in Rochester, Minnesota.
This is "Remembrance Day" for us.
We will never forget...we will always remember...we will always love Jeremy John Mooney.
An Exciting Day
6 years ago
Monday, November 9, 2015
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Thinking of Jeremy
It's been 32 years since that day that we went to the Holy Cross Hospital and met Jeremy John for the first time.
I was thinking of him today. I think of him often, but today was a special day because it was his 32nd birthday.
I wonder what his path in life would have been if he had walked a little farther.
Would he have been mischievous? He looked like he would have been a lot of fun. His smile made you melt. He would have had his mama wrapped around his little finger, with that smile.
Would he have enjoyed Sunday school like his big brothers did? There were lots of kids his age in our church.
Would he have been a good student in school?
Would he have graduated from Western Christian like his brothers and sister did?
Would he have married his high school sweetheart?
Would he have children by now. Would we be grandma and grandpa to more precious grandchildren?
No matter. What might have been, is not.
What is, is the knowledge that he is in the presence of the Lord. That he is loved, more than even we could love him. And that one day we will meet again.
But still we miss him. And still we think of him, and wonder.
I was thinking of him today. I think of him often, but today was a special day because it was his 32nd birthday.
I wonder what his path in life would have been if he had walked a little farther.
Would he have been mischievous? He looked like he would have been a lot of fun. His smile made you melt. He would have had his mama wrapped around his little finger, with that smile.
Would he have enjoyed Sunday school like his big brothers did? There were lots of kids his age in our church.
Would he have been a good student in school?
Would he have graduated from Western Christian like his brothers and sister did?
Would he have married his high school sweetheart?
Would he have children by now. Would we be grandma and grandpa to more precious grandchildren?
No matter. What might have been, is not.
What is, is the knowledge that he is in the presence of the Lord. That he is loved, more than even we could love him. And that one day we will meet again.
But still we miss him. And still we think of him, and wonder.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
ENGLISH ?
I was cleaning up some files today and came across this. I don't know who wrote it...but it is somewhat interesting...and thought provoking...and maybe even just a touch amusing.
Maybe it was Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes. It sounds kinda like something he would write.
Have a read.
If you enjoyed it, leave a comment. If you didn't enjoy it, lighten UP!
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language!
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French Fries in France ..
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why when the stars are out they are visible but when the lights are out they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this...
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'.
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP! When is rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When is doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP!
Oh . . . one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P!
Maybe it was Andy Rooney from 60 Minutes. It sounds kinda like something he would write.
Have a read.
If you enjoyed it, leave a comment. If you didn't enjoy it, lighten UP!
You think English is easy???
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language!
There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French Fries in France ..
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why when the stars are out they are visible but when the lights are out they are invisible.
PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?
You lovers of the English language might enjoy this...
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP'.
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?
We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.
We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP! When is rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.
When is doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP!
Oh . . . one more thing:
What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U-P!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
WE REMEMBER...WE ALWAYS WILL...
November 9, 1979 - Rochester, Minnesota
Jeremy John Mooney
Budded on Earth to bloom in Heaven
Sunday, August 15, 2010
She would be 100!
Clarice (Hurlburt) Mooney
Today, August 15, 2010 would have been my mother's 100th birthday.
She was a good woman and a wonderful mother.
I wish I could give her a call, as I always did on Sunday evening. I'd wish her a Happy Birthday and tell her that I appreciate her more every day. It seems that you have to age and mature, (grow up) and experience some of the things that she experienced as she took her journey through this life, before you can truly understand what a precious gift you have been given, and what an incredible loss you have experienced.
Happy Birthday and thank you Mom!
I love you.
I miss you.
If you would like to know more about this wonderful woman please go to my older posts and read about her life as expressed last September on the tenth anniversary of her graduation to her new life eternal!
Monday, June 28, 2010
Jeremy John
The song in my heart today has been a melancholy song. A song of yearning. Yearning for something that is just out of reach. It has been a sad day.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Grandpa Jack's Meaty Slow Cooker Stew Recipe
INGREDIENTS:
• 4 potatoes, cut into small chunks (I wash them and leave the skins on)
• 1 or 2 onions, skinned and cut into chunks
• Lots of white button mushrooms, sliced (or whole if they’re small)
• 2 – 3 sticks celery, washed and chopped
• 3 – 4 carrots, washed and sliced into chunks
• 1½ - 2 pounds (or maybe even a little more) lean stewing meat, cut into chunks
• Green pepper, sliced and cut into chunks
• 2 cups (500 ml) beef stock
• 2 tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
• 2 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 tsp (5 ml) dried marjoram
• black pepper to taste (lots of pepper, lots of taste)
• olive oil for sautéing the meat (if you choose to sauté the meat)
• flour
• 2 cups frozen peas
• 2 cups frozen corn
INSTRUCTIONS:
• Prepare and place the vegetables into the slow cooker.
• Dredge the meat chunks in flour and then sauté in olive oil in batches till browned.
Or
• Add the meat chunks raw and add a little flour to the stew to thicken the juice.
• Add the stew meat to the vegetables, add the herbs and spices and mix well.
• Finally add the beef stock, the Worcestershire sauce and the soy sauce.
• Give the mixture a good stir and then cover the pot securely with aluminum foil before putting on the lid.
• This tight seal ensures the maximum flavour!
• Cook on high setting for 45 minutes and then reduce to the low setting for about six to eight hours, (hey, it’s a slow cooker!!) adding the peas and the corn for the final 30 minutes of cooking.
• This is an excellent recipe using Beef, but it is equally good for wild meat like Antelope, Deer, Elk and Moose.
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