Good Bye Sweet Frankie

Franke and Opie
2025

Yesterday my Son lost his wonderful dog, Frankie.

Julio and Frankie had play dates at first and in a short period of time Frankie moved in with Julio and his fiancé   Nicole.

Frankie was there when both of my Granddaughters were born and in my eldest  Granddaughter’s world Frankie has always been there.

Frankie  got to spend a lot of time with my youngest granddaughter Luna who was born in September.

Frankie was there when two of my Granddaughter’s cousins were born and he was there to grow up along side Julio and Nicole’s nephews.

He was there when my son made that jump from being a single and carefree kind of guy to a grown man with a family.

Frankie was loved. He was a big part of a very big family and even as time moves on and that distance between where Frankie is now and where we are is unfathomable, there will always be a place just for him right here in all of our hearts.

Julio and Frankie 2024

Julio and Frankie
January 6th 2025

*Word of the Day: DISTANCE

Right This Minute

Edward Mitchell Bannister ,American painter (1828 – 1901)
Untitled (sunset with quarter moon and farmhouse) (1883)

I don’t spend a lot of time dwelling on the past and I don’t spend a second thinking about the future.

If I have learned one good and solid truth in this life, being in the here and now is the best place to be.

Now What?

The Four Horsemen, from “The Apocalypse”
Albrecht Dürer

I remember my friends in the Democratic party TELLING me to not push issues like Immigration and Race because it made middle of the road voters feel ‘uncomfortable’.

Also, I was told by elected officials that we didn’t have problems with diversity- so really, I was told, I would just be wasting my time.

I was encouraged to save the salmon and fight for alternative modes of transportation like electric bikes because ” WE ” could use those issues to ease people into bigger issues.

Well. I did it their way and now a Convicted Felon is in the White House and he’s burning down the house and has kidnapped an elected official from another country AND the Official’s wife.

The Horseman of the Apocalypse are sitting in a diner somewhere twiddling their swords and scythes because  those said ” Middle of the Road ” voters and a bunch of racists and low information voters decided to Vote for a Racist Felon because he had a penis and the other candidate did not and in casting their vote  the way they did they stole the Horseman’s gig.

There are some days I think people are for the most part good.

And there are other days I could just puke at the thought of them.

 

 

January 3, 2026

Midjourney creations and styles by Irina Shamaeva

I watched three horror movies on Shudder today.

They were so bad that I watched the British Baking shows on Netflix to cleanse my brain’s pallet.

I’m not hear to slam anyone’s work so I’m not going to list them, and  I have no clue to how to do it better.

 Props to the guys who made and films…it’s a lot of work.

But man.

Ouch.