You Never Know Until You Know

Uncle Donnie has a favorite vodka,doo dah, doo dah,
and Uncle Donnie likes to drink it all the doo dah day.
Tito's is the name, handmade down there in Austin, Texas.
The Wine Enthusiast scores it at 95 out of a perfect 100.
Ketel one got a 89, Absolut an 84,with Grey Goose another 84.
Try some, I think you'll like it. Anything goes with Tito's,
you know what I mean?
Going out tonight with my trophy wife Betty. Gonna hear
some live music later and maybe hit the Happy Hour earlier.
It's all good, right. Maybe some appetizers and an adult bev
or six and spend some time with the Woods. Should be a fine
time, and who knows , maybe I'll wake up in Vegas tomorrow.
You never know until you know, capisci mi?
Be good,
Uncle D.

Bettys' Little Cribbitch

So last Saturday night, Betty, my trophy wife, and I had dinner with some very dear old friends
who live in the country. Betty had made a dinner and we took it to our friends house and shared
it with them there. Now this friend of mine whenever we see each other always tells me I remind
him of David Letterman. I always let him say it but this time I tell him, "you always say that about
me reminding you of Letterman, but I gotta disagree.....I'm funnier than David Letterman".
What could he say? I am funnier than Letterman! It reminded me of  the movie Braveheart, when
the Irishman wants to meet Wallace and even after being introduced he says,"this can't be Wallace,
I'm prettier than this man." Uncle Donnie is funnier and better looking than Letterman, you know
what I mean?
I made some clam chowder last week and we had our friends Takashi, the card whisperer, he ain't
no fugazi Woods, and his wife, the hellion, Mrs. Woods over for a little Friday dinner and cards.
We always have a ball when we get together.
Speaking of cards, Uncle Donnie is Bettys' official 'cribbitch'! Everytime she wins at cribbage!
WhattamIgonnado. Maybe one of these days I can find a game I can win......Betty says....
"Don't hold your breath".
Marone!
D.

Ima Late Bloomer

So after the movie the other night, I can't even remember the name of the movie, I find out
that my trophy wife Betty had acquired this movie from the red box system. You know, the
candy bar machine that shoots out movies instead of  Mounds Bars, that's the one. Well, the
snob that is Uncle D. comes out and I tell her no more candy machine movies, right. I say to her
that I don't want people seein her get movies from a soda pop machine, you know what I
mean? On and on Uncle Donnie goes on right? I won't stand anywhere near the thing if you get a
movie outta that bubblegum machine, that's it, finished, done. WhatamIgonnado, What am I
supposed to say, no more, fini, fuggetaboudit.
I went through the same thing about the 'store'. You know the 'store'. Maybe this might help
you.....Kirkland.....Costco.....the 'store'. I really am a snob, and it took a few years to get over it.
Like in the movie Moonstruck when Cher hadda tell Nicholas Cage to snap out of it; I hadda
snap out of it and become less of a snob, and let my trophy wife Betty shop at stores that I would'nt
step a foot in. Stores like Walmart and Winco; you know them stores, right, I thought you
might. I don't even like it when she brings me underwear from Fred Meyers, capisci mi?
I know, Uncle Donnie needs a lot of work, maybe even professional help.  Nah, I've always
been a late bloomer....it always just takes me a little longer, you know what I mean?
Later,
The future non-snob D.

Seven Days In Utopia

Hey, hows it goin,
Just got back from the coast. My trophy wife Betty and I took our youngest daughter to her
new school, Ecola Bible School, where she will attend for awhile. Who knows how long she
will be there? As long as it takes I guess. Uncle Donnie is taking a wait and see posture on
this whole thing, but one thing is for sure; when this kid starts something she usually finishes,
you know what I mean? She will probably play big sister to alot of these older girls, on
account of she is  a little older and wiser than her eighteen years might show. She is truely an
old soul in a young person. The thing is this school won't know what hit it, capisci mi? It's all
good, whattayagonnado?
So, after we get home, Betty and I play a little game of canasta to 5000.
Uncle D. played hard and manages a whopping 1540; Betty scores 4000 more than me.....
you do the math!
I hate that game. After that debacle we watched a pretty cool movie with Bob Duval called
Seven Days In Utopia, a great golf movie. I'm pretty sure Jesus would have you watch it.
It was very good.
Oh yeah, hadda lot of clam chowder the past coupla days and a few adult beverages. WhatamI-
gonnado, not have some? Fuggetaboudit, I had some. Just don't tell the good people at Hannahs
new school, you know what I mean?
Arrivederci,
D.

Caretakers, Custodians and Stewards

   "There, then, is the way in which we can lay up treasures in heaven. It all comes back to
the question of how I view myself and how I view my life in this world. Do I tell myself
every day I live, that this is but another milestone I am passing, never to go back, never to
come again? I am pitching my moving tent 'a day's march nearer home'. That is the great
principle of which I must constantly remind myself---that I am a child of the Father placed
here for His purpose, not for myself. I did not choose to come; I have not brought myself
here; there is a purpose in it all. God has given me this great privilege of living in this world,
and if He has endued me with any gifts, I have to realize that, although in one sense all these
things are mine, ultimately, as Paul shows at the end of 1 Corinthians 3, they are God's.
Therefore, regarding myself as one who has this great privilege of being a caretaker for God,
a custodian and a steward, I do not cling to these things. They do not become the centre of
my life and existence. I do not live for them or dwell upon them constantly in my mind;
they do not absorb my life. On the contrary, I hold them loosely; I am in a state of blessed
detachment from them. I am not governed by them; rather do I govern them; and as I do
this I am steadily securing, and safely laying up for myself,'treasures in heaven'."
Martyn LLoyd-Jones on how we are to treat our gifts and possessions.
Uncle Donnie deemed it appropriate to focus early in this new year on such an important;
yay vital aspect of our  relationship to Christ'
Have a great New Year,
D.