Never Say Goodbye...

Happy Wordless Wednesday!  Bon Jovi rocked The Garden so hard last night that they blew out the PA.  Cell phone pics are all I have for now...

Just a few words this Wordless Wednesday... give your furbabies an extra squeeze today In Memory of Virginia, an 8 year old Airedale Terrier who, after a hard live (she was abused, a breeding dog and afraid of men), traveled 800 miles (in 100 mile legs) to her forever home this past weekend.  Sadly, she got out of her new owner's yard yesterday.  An intensive search was started and hope was up when she was sighted at 9:00 pm last night. Unfortunately, she was hit and killed on that same road very early this morning... and the driver never even bothered to stop. RIP Sweet Baby Girl..... ♥

Last Row

TGIF! I went to see Bon Jovi last night (love them!) and am a bit tired today, so this will be a quick post. The show was fantastic, as always, but I don't think we could have been any further from the stage...

Seriously, we were all the way on the other side of the arena, straight back from the stage, up in the balcony... last row. These are not the awesome seats I'm used to for seeing Jovi! Ah well.. we still had fun anyway. Jon got a little bit closer to us for a couple songs...

I'm also happy that I choose right when I picked getting tickets for the second night in Boston ... we got the longer and better set! Songs they didn't play the night before and were "must hears" on my list included Raise Your Hands (my fave Jovi song live!) and Bad Medicine w/ Shout. Plus we got Jon's impersonation of Mick Jagger when they threw a little Start Me Up in to Sleep When I'm Dead and during I Love This Town, the crowd went nuts when they plastered clips of our Boston teams on the big screen! We even got to sing Happy Birthday to Richie when they brought his cake out onstage and an extra encore song - Twist & Shout!

Since I have no knitting content to show you (did I fool you with that Last Row title?), I wanted to share a couple of family photos from last Saturday's belated Dad's Day lunch up in Essex, MA (mmm... fried lobster tails... fried clams...). It really means a lot to me that so many of my friends continue to ask about Mom's colon cancer (she was declared cancer free in May) and who have been checking in as my Dad begins treatment for his squamous cell carcinoma. His treatments began on Monday and he is currently undergoing radiation once per day and chemo once per week. Since they expect the radiation to cause throat pain and difficulty swallowing, he did have the g-tube put in so he will be ready. So far, so good... and all are in happy spirits!

Here's my Mom & Dad...

Matt's Dad & Sue (aka my "momsue" not to be confused with my Mom, Sue)...

We had a wonderful time... and no, I didn't take a picture of the fried lobster from Woodman's... sorry!