tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87359248108287868902024-03-13T05:07:10.431-05:00passion = truthhow jeffrey james francis ircink sees the worldJeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.comBlogger3223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-16661647288900274412017-12-25T09:28:00.003-06:002017-12-25T09:30:11.095-06:00"James Franklin".<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">welcome to Glen Mar..."James Franklin"!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">standing at a cool 7 feet,
this gent (also known as Abies fraseri) is a favorite amongst Christmas trees.
when he isn't just standing around, he loves to donate his scent to air
fresheners & incense, provide traditional remedies for colds & scurvy,
and loves to participate in fir waves. all the way from Dutchman Tree Farms
(via Pick n' Save), in Manton, MI!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">i started naming my tree
after favorite celebs who passed away that year: 2015 - Maureen (Maureen
O'Hara), 2016 - Ricci-Earl (after Ricci Martin, Dean Martin's youngest son)
& writer Earl Hamner, Jr., both of whom i knew personally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this year's Christmas tree
is appropriately - and with much joy (and sadness) - named after my father,
James Anthony, who passed in March, and his childhood friend, Frank Lenten, who
passed in September - both men lost to us within 6 months of each other &
at the same age, leaving a very deep chasm in our hearts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NOTE</b>: i omitted one important name but i'll save it for next
year (a slight breach in naming etiquette) as it's too much to have a
three-named Christmas tree. also, i would appreciate it, God, if we can keep
this to just ONE name & someone i don't know. thank you.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no family portrait this year - too difficult. and as you can see, i haven't posted all year - mostly due to my father's passing. and Facebook. perhaps that will change in 2018.</span></div>
Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-73160620163262817992017-02-15T00:14:00.004-06:002017-02-15T00:19:49.170-06:00"Universal Love". a VD poem<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;">Your eyes are tide pools of heavenly bodies and stars,</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;">My senses are in tune with The Planets, you see, </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-size: large;">be it the Messenger, the Mystic, the Magician - all three.</span></div>
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Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-5615062935111513432017-02-14T23:25:00.000-06:002017-02-14T23:25:28.206-06:00Christmas Eve with The Ircink's of Waterford!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Christmas Eve 2016. Ircink's of Waterford. I know - it's Valentine's Day. I'm a little late.<br /><br /><span style="color: white;">left to right</span>: Brother Jason, Mozol, Mom, Neeley, Dad and me.Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-91546540064133224942016-12-25T06:52:00.000-06:002016-12-25T06:52:00.907-06:00Meet "Ricci-Earl"...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A 6'10" Balsam fir from Crivitz (the Gateway to the North), Co Marinette, Wisconsin. Did you know Wisconsin is the 5th largest supplier of Christmas trees?<br />
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Last year I began the tradition of naming my Christmas tree in honor of a celebrity I liked who passed away that past year. In 2015 it was Maureen O'Hara.<br />
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This year it was my friend, <b><span style="color: white;">Ricci Martin</span></b>, Dean Martin's youngest son, and my other friend, <b><span style="color: white;">Earl Hamner</span></b>, creator of <i><span style="color: white;">"The Waltons"</span></i>.Two wonderful men whom I miss dearly.Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-75208542010498504242016-08-01T18:25:00.000-05:002016-08-01T18:40:54.699-05:00"The Swimmers"During one hot day at work last week, I heard children's voices and laughter. So I wrote this:<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">The sun beats down hard - unrelenting.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">I react with a sigh of despair.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">I wipe the sweat from my brow - take a cool drink,</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">and rue this day of days, wondering when it will</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Who shares my plight? Who pities my condition?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Certainly not those angelic voices I hear breaking</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">through the dense heat of the day.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">No, not the children - whose laughter suggests</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">their hearts beat in rhythm to a solitary</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">thought and motion, as they jump and frolic</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">and shout and swim.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Droplets bead down their faces -</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">faces the heat quickly dries -</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">only to once again plunge into their </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">liquid refreshment again and again...and again.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">I recall with fondness the days when I did the same -</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">felt the same.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">I know how those children feel;</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">I know what they are thinking.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Do they know what I am thinking?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Do they care what I was once them?</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Oh-h-h God...how I hate the swimmers.</span></i></b></div>
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<br />Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-10151340814228056442016-03-10T17:17:00.000-06:002016-03-10T17:17:10.641-06:00Happy Birthday, Brother Jas!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's my brother's birthday today. HAPPY DAYS, BROTHER JASON! We share much together - my world would be incomplete without him. XOXO.</div>
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Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-18042705316465378452015-12-31T06:00:00.000-06:002015-12-31T06:00:14.910-06:00TCM Remembers 2015.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rRvDQvT5MuM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-11073870735357744872015-12-30T18:59:00.000-06:002015-12-30T18:59:09.747-06:00Christmas Eve 2015. The Ircink's of Waterford, WI!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Merrie Christmas! Love, joy & God's Blessings.Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-78663994349878587552015-12-24T09:23:00.000-06:002015-12-24T09:23:40.707-06:002015 Christmas card.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*original photography by Jeffrey James Ircink. words by Henry David Thoreau</span><br />
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Standing at a cool 7 feet, this little lady (also known as <i>Abies balsamea</i>) is a favorite amongst Christmas trees. When she isn't just hanging around, she loves to donate her scent to air fresheners and incense, provide traditional remedies for colds and scurvy, and loves to participate in fir waves. All the way from Crivitz, Wisconsin...give a warm welcome to this one-of-a-kind balsam fir - "Maureen!"<br />
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I was told of one tradition of naming your Christmas tree after a favorite celebrity who passed away that year. I chose Maureen O'Hara.Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-25397404852520955752015-11-27T19:47:00.001-06:002015-11-27T19:47:59.273-06:00Brett Favre official number retirement. Lambeau. 11/26/15.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Brett Favre. Lambeau. Official number retirement/ring of honor ceremony. Halftime. Green Bay versus Chicago. November 26, 2015. Thanksgiving.</div>
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Legendary Green Bay Hall of Famer/NFL Hall of Famer, QB Bart Starr, was on hand to help celebrate Favre's number retirement.</div>
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November 21, 2015.<br />
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I've been keeping track of Wisconsin's first snows since I began blogging. If I could kill snow I would.<br />
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12/19/09 (big snowfall)<br />
12/14/10 (first snowfall)<br />
skipped 2011<br />
12/18/12 (first snow)<br />
12/8/13 (can't remember - first snow or big snowfall)<br />
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">Pollinating here and there, ‘specially when it’s warm.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">And bees in your knees.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">And buzzin’ in the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">A sting in your finger is better than your eye!</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">Making sweet honey deep in their bee hives,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">That’s all they do with the short, hectic lives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Happy Birthday, Mom! As fiesty at 72 as she was at 18, Dolores or "Dee Dee" is always to be reckoned with. Course - isn't that true with most mothers? Thanks, mom, for my love of antiques & rummaging & pickin' & gardening (dad, too) & decorating & for my all-around extroverted personality. </span><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">We love you dearly...Jeff, Jason, Dad, Molly, Zol & Neeley.</span></span></div>
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It's berry time! 2nd batch of black raspberries. Batch #1 was on 7/4. The larger berries are as big as a nickel.</div>
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Where do the years go, Jimmy? Happy days to my father...the one & only.<br />
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We lost Molly this morning...<br />
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Brother Jas' first American water spaniel passed away this morning after having been diagnosed with lymphoma about a year ago. In just three days it'll be one month to the year when we lost Molly's younger sister, Zol. Two pups in one year - that's tough any way you look at it. I'm guessing but I think Molly was 12 1/2 and Zol was 2 years younger. You hardly see the symptoms of lymphoma in dogs until the end - Molly was active and eating on Sunday when I last saw her (as if there was nothing wrong) and then this shit.<br />
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Brother Jas is handling it a tad better because he knew it was coming sooner than later, but it's still rough on him. In the pictures, Molly's the bigger of the two. What a wonderful dog - my family loved her so much. Jas - his girls all these years...both gone. So sad. So sad indeed. and I'm very sad for Molly and my brother.<br />
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</span>Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-22872046098497842822015-06-15T17:49:00.000-05:002015-06-15T17:49:09.572-05:00Happy Anniversary, Jim & Dee Dee!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mom & Dad celebrate 52 years together today. Happy days to my wonderful parents.Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-26196442466846874962015-06-04T06:30:00.000-05:002015-06-04T06:43:56.561-05:002nd Lt. Jacob Kazar! Huzzah!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Dear Jacob,</span><br />
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Congratulations on your recent graduation from the Air Force Academy!</span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span>
<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I remember when you made your decision to attend the academy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">I remember how difficult it was adjusting to the regimen that is the AFA and how over the last four years you rose to the challenges that were presented to you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">I remember when you were a baby, a young boy and a teen and I remember hearing all the stories of you growing up and seeing the gleam in your parents' eyes whenever they mentioned their children. How fortunate I have been to be able to peek into your family's life, watching the four of you grow together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">I remember thinking many times, "What great kids those Kazar boys are."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">2nd Lt. Jacob Kazar – I am proud of what you've accomplished and excited for you to begin this new journey. I'm fortunate to know a few academy graduates from other branches of the military…what you've accomplished is quite the feat. Moments in life are fleeting – it really is all about "the journey". Enjoy this journey. I do not share this sentiment lightly – but, you know, if I had had a son, I would be perfectly content if he were just like you. I wish you God's speed while in the service of our country.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">Most of all though, remember…that I wish you love.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;">"Aim High" — "Fly-Fight-Win."</span><br />
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Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-27281504057087242282015-05-25T12:11:00.000-05:002015-05-25T12:11:15.697-05:00"Ashes of Soldiers".<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;"><b>"Sweet are the blooming cheeks of the living!</b></span><br />
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To those who served and died - on this Memorial Day.</div>
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Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-18706704834718604802015-05-10T21:21:00.000-05:002015-05-10T21:21:00.332-05:00Happy Mother's Day, Mom!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was at mom & dad's today but this was from last year. The beard is no more. Jeffrey James Ircinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18010750321117040354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8735924810828786890.post-403455269216703532015-04-22T07:33:00.000-05:002015-05-25T12:11:53.999-05:00Earth Day 2015<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="364" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6KUVnbDoIeE" width="460"></iframe>
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- <span style="color: white;">Aldo Leopold</span>, author, scientist, forester, ecologist, conservationist and environmentalist. Born in Iowa, he spend most of his life in Wisconsin.<br />
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I'm not a New Year's guy. I celebrated more when I was younger but now it's just another eve before a day off. However, I do love this rendition of<em><strong><span style="color: white;"> "Auld Lang Syne"</span></strong></em>. I first heard it when Mairi Campbell serenaded Sean Connery during the Kennedy Center Honors. <br />
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So - to 2015! May it bring you health, joy & happiness - and peace. Remember - most of us are just tryin' to crack ye old nut. There's much good in the world. Seek it out!<br />
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