Lo Sto Imparando

Uncle Donnie is esausto!(worn out) Worked real hard today; what am I, nuts or
something? A man my age workin that hard, fuggetaboudit! Not gonna complain
though, I mean I could be not workin, right? And then that would not be optimum,
more like below average, you know what I mean? Life is always a challenge. Different
day different challenge capisci mi? Yet, lo sto imparando,(I am learning). It is like
spending time in the garden and trying to remember all the names of the beautful
plants and flowers. Lo sto imparando. Sometimes I can't tell the differnce between a
a begonia and a geranium,or a hydranga from a weigala. Good news though, I can
now recognize a fuschia....go Donnie go! Whattamygonnado?
Lo sto imparando! You can teach an old Don new tricks!
And now I leave you with this for your tomorrow...
abbia una bella giornata
Have a nice day.
Ciao
Uncle Donnie

She 'Pencils'

How you doin?
Uncle Donnie has got a new word for you. Kakistocracy. Look it up and we will
talk later. Couldn't believe my eyes....badabing, there it was right there. To think
we were really a democracy; as crazy as that is, and now to believe we might
really just be a kakistocracy is freakin weird, you know what I mean?
I made a roasted turkey pot pie last week. We ate it.
I told my trophy wife Betty yesterday that she 'penciled', you know worked out,
done good, worth the investment, probably gonna keep her, know what I mean?
She made me tuna casserole! Uncle Donnie loves tuna casserole.Fuggetaboudit!
I could eat it every day....maybe not. Wattaya think? Everyday or every other day?
Coupla weeks ago I made some new meatballs with veal, ground steak, and a little
pork sausage. They didn't last very long,whattayagonnado! Whats done is done!
103 days to the general election.
Olympics this weekend.
Ichiro playin for the Yankees.
Marone!
Tiamo,
D.

There Is Work To Be Done

Come va mi amici'

Uncle Donnie ran across this paragraph from Burroughs commentary on Hosea.
"It is the usual way of those idolaters who forsake the true worship of God, to
give themselves up to the pleasures of the flesh. Sensuality and idolatry usually
go together. When the people of Israel sacrificed to the calves, what did they?
They ate and drank, and rose up to play; that was all their work, and good
enough for the worshipping of such a god, a calf. You know the more we began
to decline in the worship of God, we began to be more sensual; there must be
proclamation to people to take their sports and delights upon the Lord's day; and
indeed it usually accompanies defection in the way of God's worship. False
worship lays not such bonds upon men's consciences for the mortifying the lusts
of the flesh as the worship of God does. Therefore those men who love to give
liberty to the flesh are soonest enticed to ways of superstitious worship. Jeremeiah,
in chapter xxiv.9, sets forth the state of those naughty Jews that were in captivity
by the similitude of a basket of rotten figs; which is agreeable to this interpretation,
that Israel was as Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, that is, rotteness, the daughter
of sensuality."
So, I begin to wonder if my worship is corrupt if not accompanied by the mortifying
of my flesh, and the corruption therein!
Marone, I gotta lot of work to do, you know what I mean?

D.

BANANA DAQUIRI, POR FAVOR

I know its been awhile since Uncle Donnies last correspondence, whattayagonnado, I mean
its not like I've been busy or nothing right. Here is a quick update; Italian beer, Peroni to be
exact; Mikes hard  mango punch with a shot of vodka and an occasional sip of red wine. There
you have Uncle D's last week and a half. It's all good, we mixed in a few great meals,and spent time with the usual cast of criminals,and played a lotta cards....it's what we do capisci mi?
Kinda reminds me of Fredo asking Michael(Godfather II)," how do you say banana daquiri in
spanish?.......Banana daquiri, por favor!" I love that movie! Anyways, its hot, its July, and life is
good! What can I say?
Ciao,
Uncle Donnoe