Thirty years ago today.
Himself: “And to think they said it would never last.”
Herself: “That was us.”
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Tags: 30th wedding anniversary, Herself, Himself
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May 12, 2020 at 10:16 am |
All the best to you!
May 12, 2020 at 12:10 pm |
And to thee and thine as well, Miguelito.
May 12, 2020 at 10:17 am |
Congratulations and many more, Patrick and Shannon! Sometimes these things do work out really well, even if the house occasionally sounds like two cats in too small a space…..
May 12, 2020 at 10:31 am |
For those wondering where that phrase came from:
Matthew 13:45–13:46
45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
May 12, 2020 at 12:09 pm |
May 12, 2020 at 10:30 am |
Happy Anniversary! Congratulations and here’s to another 30 years!
Still in “pause” in NYS. Two regions in western NY will start to reopen soon. Still waiting for the maples leaves to unfurl. Spring is short in upstate NY.
May 12, 2020 at 12:05 pm |
Yeah, but you get those beeeyootiful falls. My adult experience with New York is limited to a 1977 out-and-back from Greeley, Colo., to Burlington, Vt., with a stop in Wellsville to drop off a friend. I remember the country being stunning for a guy who’d been in the West and Southwest since age 8.
May 12, 2020 at 1:02 pm |
Where in NYS do you live, Libby? I grew up just east of Buffalo, out in Town Line. Went to Rochester for college and out on Lawn Guyland (Stony Brook) for grad school. Got friends and relatives all over the Empire State.
May 13, 2020 at 10:03 am |
Hi Khal! I live in Albany county. I’m not too familiar with the western tier. A few visits over the years. I’m more familiar with the Hudson-Mohawk Valley/lower Adirondacks and Leatherstocking area.
May 13, 2020 at 11:00 am |
I have a cousin up your way. She works at USN’s Knolls Nuclear Lab doing stuff we don’t talk about.
May 13, 2020 at 4:07 pm
KAPL, yes. Keeping it in the family so to speak😀.
May 12, 2020 at 10:43 am |
A foin day, it twas. Congrats
Chris
May 12, 2020 at 11:40 am |
A witness! And one of the few from that gathering who went on to make something of himself, too.
May 12, 2020 at 11:11 am |
Congratulations 30 is a big number, seems like yesterday and sometimes forever but all in all not a bad experience. Coming up on No. 38 here, so there is hope and joy.
May 12, 2020 at 12:12 pm |
I didn’t think I’d live to be 30, much less be married for 30. It’s all gravy.
May 12, 2020 at 11:14 am |
Congrats PO’G and Herself!!! Many more to come, eh?!! My bride and I just passed 50 great years together last December…..I’ve been more than blessed!! 🙂
May 12, 2020 at 12:12 pm |
Whoo-lawd, a half-century! That must be the Doghouse Record. Well done to the two of yis.
May 12, 2020 at 11:15 am |
She hasn’t changed a bit.. But you, well let’s just say that you better be lucky she felt sorry for you.
All in jest.
Please have a wonderful and safe Anniversary.
Shawn
May 12, 2020 at 11:52 am |
I have always depended upon the blindness of strangers. When she had Lasik I thought I was hosed. But she’s always been fond of dogs.
May 12, 2020 at 11:55 am |
We’ve had some of those discussions, too, i.e., “did we ever think we would look like this?”
May 12, 2020 at 2:21 pm |
I’ve heard it said that you wind up with the face you deserve. Mine is great for curdling milk, stopping clocks, and making freight trains take dirt roads. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way down to the bone.
May 12, 2020 at 3:14 pm |
I can never figure out whether I am smiling or grimacing without checking. I put this selfie on my blog for Bike Month and then looked at it and said someone is going to respond “if this is what passes for fun, I’ll do something else and leave the infected saddle sores to that old coot”
May 12, 2020 at 5:37 pm
Tip of the sombrero, amigo! 🙂
May 12, 2020 at 12:02 pm |
Congratulations & many more.
We celebrated 32 years last February.
Going into lock down, I was unsure how we’d cope with only each other for 24/7 but it’s actually been pleasant.
May 12, 2020 at 12:18 pm |
Same back atcha, Hurben. I think it helps if both folks have interests that (a) coincide, and (2) don’t. So Herself and I both like to read, prepare meals, and ride bikes, and we do that stuff together. She likes to eBay and chat on the phone, and I like to write and wander off by myself to consult the voices in my head, and we do that separately.
She’ll be delighted when she can get back to running around with her gal pals and checking out the estate sales. I think she misses the camaraderie of the office a bit, too. I mean, I’m all like Mr. Entertainment an’ shit — Just ask me! I’ll tell ya! — but it must be like watching the same sitcom over and over and over again.
We also have a huge stockpile of private jokes amassed over the years. And now and then we do the Angry Corgi at each other to clear the air.
May 12, 2020 at 2:01 pm |
Congrats on being with Shannon and having a friend (Chris) for 30 years! That is something to cherish and keep for sure. We went over 33 last November, and Sandy has let me live that whole time. When she was holding that pillow over my head last night, she said it was to filter out any viruses to save my life. It was a little hard to breathe.
May 12, 2020 at 2:09 pm |
The charity of women never fails to amaze. Why they do not hunt us for meat and/or sport remains a mystery.
Chris and I go back even further, to the Seventies. We were bros at the University of Northern Colorado in Greality and cut our journalistical teefers at the Gazette Telegraph in Bibleburg. He toddled off to make a name for himself in Santa Rosa, and I toddled off to make a fool of myself in a succession of places, a practice that continues to this very day.
May 12, 2020 at 2:07 pm |
Nice! Congratulations!
May 12, 2020 at 2:47 pm |
Congratulations to the both of you! Herself was a real beauty then, and she is a real beauty still.
Patrick me boy, is that some sort of Kain-Tuck waterfall adorning your noggin? Let’s see a shot of it from behind (i.e., the “party” side), just to make sure. Regardless of your coiffure, you two make a beautiful couple!
May 12, 2020 at 3:12 pm |
There are some amusing pictures of O’G from Back in the Day when he had looooong hair. Maybe Patrick will amuse us with a couple.
May 12, 2020 at 6:40 pm |
You mean … like this one?
Like wow, man. Like, bow, wow.
May 12, 2020 at 8:39 pm |
Oh, yeah.
May 12, 2020 at 6:37 pm |
I clung to hair a lot longer than hair clung to me, that’s for sure. This afternoon we were trying to figure out when I said, “Aw, hell with it, cut it all off.” Probably when we moved to Weirdcliffe. I have a cropped do’ in a pic with Fuerte the Wonder Pooch as we enjoyed a view of the Sangre de Cristos from the Mad Dog Mountain Viewing Facility (a large rock just down the hill from our house).
May 12, 2020 at 8:42 pm |
May 12, 2020 at 5:42 pm |
Anyone who’s willing to share photos of themselves from 30 years ago online has my knee-bending, sombrero-tipping accolades!!! Or maybe curiosity into their MadDoggedness (trademarked)? 🙂
Well done Patrick and Herself!!!! THANK YOU!!!! CONGRATS!!!! 🙂
May 12, 2020 at 5:45 pm |
Every Girl Crazy Bout A Sharp Dressed Man. Did your mother-in-law like you from the get-go or did it take a decade or two? And as for the private jokes-they’re the best. Never wear out.
May 13, 2020 at 10:19 am |
The Favorite Son-in-Law Competition remains ongoing. But I have the homefield advantage at present. The crowd roars, etc.
May 12, 2020 at 8:19 pm |
When they told us it wouldn’t last, they were talking about our hair!
Congrats!
Celebrating a dozen years of marital bliss. And if you factor in that we got married 22 years ago, we ain’t doing half bad!
May 13, 2020 at 10:17 am |
A solid batting average that. I know people who struck out the first time at bat and gave up the game.
May 12, 2020 at 9:13 pm |
39 years here. I’ve done lots and lots of really stupid shit, but marrying this woman was not one of them. She has literally saved my life three times.
May 13, 2020 at 7:06 am |
Good on ye. Yeh, if it waddn’t for stupid shit, I woonta done no shit at all. Getting married was my one bullseye.
May 13, 2020 at 7:52 am |
Oops. I’m a day late and a dollar short as usual, but happy anniversary you two! Best wishes for many more.
May 13, 2020 at 10:10 am |
Thanks, Debby. And who isn’t a dollar short these days?
May 13, 2020 at 8:49 am |
Also late, but congrats to you!! We’re at 31 and counting.
Here’s a cheer for hair plugs, Rogaine, and Minoxydil to you, sir!
May 13, 2020 at 10:12 am |
Well done at 31. As for me, I submit to the ol’ Remington Cranial Lawnmower® every 10 days or so, and that does the trick for me.
May 13, 2020 at 9:29 am |
Wow! Checking back on the 13th….
Boy Howdy, you have added a helluva impressive and delightful photo post script! Congratulations again!
May 13, 2020 at 10:15 am |
Thankee, Libby. And here’s another!
May 13, 2020 at 10:57 am |
Great set of pictures. Life has been good for the most part, eh?
May 13, 2020 at 2:03 pm |
“Hi, I’m Patrick O’Grady and running for Congress. My Cat approves this message”.
May 13, 2020 at 2:19 pm |
“No I don’t. …”
May 13, 2020 at 4:14 pm |
You guys look great!