Joseph Dale
Joe is the Italian stallion bum that married my baby
girl. No, of course he wasn’t good
enough for Angela, but who would have?
They’ve been married for almost 7 years, and I’m just now starting to
speak to him! A very belated Happy 35th Birthday Joe!
I’m so late on his birthday blog that he actually thought he
was going to escape it . . .
Joe has been a devoted and faithful husband, father, and
provider. He is caring, and is proving
to be a great ‘daughter’ Daddy, which is a designation saved for only the best
of us that raise ‘just daughters’.
Joe is full blooded Italian, and though his childhood
pictures show him to be blond, he’s about as black-headed now as you can get; a
trait passed along to his oldest daughter Ava.
Though Ava’s Mom Angela is dark-headed too; there wasn’t much of a chance
that Ava would be fair-haired.
Joe taught me the love of a grilled boned-in Rib eye ~ which
is now without question my all-time favorite steak. I was first introduced to this culinary
delight last July while on vacation, and was then immediately christened with
the moniker of Boned Rib, by my ribbed brother, the original Rib eye Joe. He may or may not be a dead-eye, but there is
no doubt he is a Rib eye.
Another food treasure that we share the love for is his
Grandma Franco’s Italian meat sauce.
Wow, that is the best meat sauce recipe ever made. Bottle it, sell it; you’ll be a very wealthy
man.
Joe is a ‘gamer’ in a different sense of the word from
computer games. Joe is well, let’s say, fanatical
about football, bonkers for basketball, ga-ga for golf, bemused by baseball,
hot for hockey, addicted to softball, salivating for volleyball, zealous for swimming,
dedicated to badminton, fixated by
bowling, passionate about tennis, fervent for horseshoes, enthusiastic for
darts, and keen for kayaking. If it’s
televised, he’s got it on DVR, or watching it live. He’s got all 47 channels of ESPN, and the 114
other sport channels are categorized 1-114.
I knew Joe was a little over the edge when he was Facebooking about the
score from the Davenport Iowa 4th grade regional finals boys judo
championship. I’ll bet that match sure
shot up the overnight Arbitron ratings for ESPN38!
Joe is a military man.
I actually can’t tell you how exactly, other than I know he is
associated with the Air Force, and he is also a member of the Air Force
National Guard. It’s not that his
occupation is secretive, it is just that I don’t understand it enough to write
about it. I know he travels frequently
throughout the year, and though he is not routinely on patrol when he is in the
middle-east, he still has work to do in those hot zones. And yes, he is going to be deployed to
Afghanistan for 6 months later this year.
Our love and prayers are with you Joe; and by God’s grace, may He build
and sustain His hedge of protection around you.
Happy Birthday Joe, I love you.
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