Very busy.
Between attending a breakfast honoring a friend of mine, Ed Riely - doing lots of little league baseball both days with Tim, and going to a Communion Breakfast honoring St. Augustine's pastor Msgr Hillary Franco, we were running around.
And my mother is having her troubles. She has some sort of respiratory infection and Brigid and I (mostly Brigid) are seeing her three times a day to do some inhalation therapy. My mother hits 83 on Wednesday.
Anyway Brigid and I made a presentation to Ed at the Northern Westchester and Putnam Center of Life Breakfast, honoring his 42 years (!) of prolife efforts - going back to his senior year at Manhattan College. I read a bit of a tribute to Ed and Brigid then read the emails his four children had sent - all of them are out of the area, with his oldest boy Beau, in Afghanistan.
Here's Ed, with his wife Pat, and in between them is Mike Anderson. Mike knows all four of their children.
Brigid reading (Captain, U.S. Army) Jim Riely's email
And here is Brigid with our friend and neighbor Sue Konig, who was also attending -
Then, it was on to Tim's baseball. Unfortunately, the Croton FD lost by a lot to a little. Tim batted clean-up, but only got up twice - a K and a walk.
He played most of the game at first base - in the second picture he's just ended the inning by stepping on the bag - the runner is OUT!
After the game, Tim and I had a short break and then returned to help out at the Challenger's Game, between the Yankees and the Mets.
So that was Saturday.
More action on Sunday, as we went to 10AM Mass at St. Augustine's and the following communino breakfast. It was to honor the pastor, Msgr. Hilary Franco on the 54th anniversary of his ordination. After over 25 years working in Rome, he has been the pastor of St. Augustine's for the last 15 years. He's now battling cancer, and as he said at Mass, he may not be thre for his next anniversary - "It's in the hands of God" (And also Columbia Presbyterian, where his chemotherapy will go on another month).
Lastly, more baseball with a late afternoon game, again with Tim's team coming out on the wrong end of the score.
Here he is on first, having just been hit in the butt while batting, and looking good on the mound - pretty big pitcher, eh? - but only looking good, not pitching effectively (However, I think he can be a good pitcher - maybe I'm biased?).
Game three of the season was last night, and another loss, so off to an 0-3 start.
Things can only get better.
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