A Sonnet for the Hot Dog Truck

It turns out I'm a poet and I didn't know it!

Here's a sonnet I wrote about the Hot Dog Truck for my new site A Sonnet a Day

Ancient Grumman wagon, body by Ford
My home away from home, my famous truck
Quality of my wares, I give my word
The best hot dogs are no matter of luck


It is the care of the preparation
The deft and mindful grilling of the bun
That makes them famous throughout the nation
And makes going to work a lot of fun


But now the truck is gone to be run by
Another hotdogman, I hope he'll make
His hot dogs as lovingly as did I
So he'll be a true dogman, not a fake


Once a Hotdogman, you always are, see
We are a small and proud fraternity!

Hotdogman's Greatest Hits

Even though I am not the Hotdogman any more (for the foreseeable future anyway), I'd like to share some of my favorite posts here. There's lots of other stuff on the site-over 1000 posts- so check these out and look around some more!

The Hotdogman on TV
Ketchup on a Hot Dog
Spell Check
Top Ten Stupid Questions asked at the Hot Dog Truck
For Battle of Bloggers
How a Red Sox Fan Got Religion
Hot Dogs, Blogs, Snakes and Frogs
Update on the ditch on a sunny day
They haven't all been eaten!
The Office of the Jury Commissioner for the Commonwealth
Interview with the Hot Dog Man
Punny but True
Eastern Box Turtle
First Timers
California Doggin'
BEST FISHING TRIP EVER!
Help me steal $48 Million!
Clicker Etiquette
Review: HomeCamera.com
Clicker Wars
The Look
The Foot Long
All Around
Home Haircut Kid
Thank You
Adeste Fideles
Sox on a Plane
Cell Phone Returned to Ref
It's Curtains for Me
Top Ten Things to do on a Rainy Day at the Hot Dog Truck
Fenway Flashback
Coaching Girls
Maitre'd for a Day
Fantastic Fishing
Tom Brady's Knee

There are lots more-just look around!

Adeste Fideles

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

About 13-14 years ago, I was watching Saturday night live and I saw Pavarotti and Vanessa Williams perform "Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)" live. I was moved. I went looking for the video out on the internet and was unable to find it. I did find this duet of Pavarotti and Trisha Yearwood singing the song with orchestra and choral accompaniment. This is from Pavarotti & Friends 1998 Live dal Parco Novi Sad di Modena 9 giugno 1998. It is a stirring piece of REAL CHRISTMAS MUSIC. Listen and be moved.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!



Adeste fideles,
Laeti triumphantes;
Venite, venite in Bethlehem;
Natum videte,
Regem Angelorum:
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus Dominum!

2. Deum de Deo,
Lumen de lumine,
Gestant puellae viscera;
Deum verum,
Genitum, non factum:
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus Dominum!

3. Cantet nunc hymnos
Chorus angelorum,
Cantet nunc aula caelestium:
Gloria, gloria,
In excelsis Deo!
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus Dominum!

4. Ergo qui natus
Die hodierna,
Jesu tibi sit gloria;
Patris aeterni
Verbum caro factum!
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus,
Venite adoremus Dominum!

Oh, come, all ye faithful,
Joyful and triumphant!
Oh, come ye, oh, come ye to Bethlehem;
Come and behold him
Born the king of angels:
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.

Highest, most holy,
Light of light eternal,
Born of a virgin,
A mortal he comes;
Son of the Father
Now in flesh appearing!
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.

Sing, choirs of angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing, all ye citizens of heaven above!
Glory to God
In the highest:
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.


Yea, Lord, we greet thee,
Born this happy morning;
Jesus, to thee be glory given!
Word of the Father,
Now in flesh appearing!
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Oh, come, let us adore him,
Christ the Lord.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Maine againe

Not much is going on with the Hotdogman this summer due to my numerous health issues. Mrs. HDM and I did manage to sneak away for a weekend in Maine to partake in two of our favorite pass times: eating lobster and drinking beer!

We always eat at Nunan's Lobster Hut because they serve the best lobster on the planet! They even have a website now, so check them out. We usually eat every last bit of lobster-nothing goes to waste!



This year I put my lobster back together.



As for the beer, we sank a few and this picture tells the story!

Update on the Hotdogman

This has truly been a lost summer for the Hotdogman. On Memorial Day weekend, my knee swelled up like a cantaloupe. I went to the ER and was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. The knee was swollen and immobile. I was told to stay off it and keep it immobilized while taking antibiotics to control the Lyme.

Once the swelling went down, nearly a month later I got an MRI and was scheduled to see an orthopedist on July 6. On July 5, I had major chest pain. I thought I had broken a rib. I went to the ER and was found to have a MASSIVE pulmonary embolism. This is a blood clot in the lung caused by a blood clot in the leg breaking loose and traveling to the lung. The admitting doctor said people who have embolisms that big usually show up at the hospital already dead! I was lucky to be alive.

I spent 36 hours in ICU and a total of 8 days in the hospital. I will be OK, but I need to take blood thinning medication for the foreseeable future.

My knee has torn cartilage and it is still swollen and painful. I can't get it fixed because I am on the blood thinners. With a little PT, I should be able to get around OK. I am shooting to go back in a couple of weeks, I am itching to get back to the Hot Dog Truck!

So true....

“You can't win an argument with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.”

Blog Your Blessing Sunday XCI

Opening Day for our Babe Ruth Team is next Saturday. I'll be telling the boys this:


Corinthians 9:24

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

The Hotdogman on TV

Nearly a year later, the Hotdogman's TV appearance is available online! Enjoy.



And when you're done with the Hotdogman, watch Dom, the goalie and birdman....

Gator in the Doorway

I put the pictures of the gator in the doorway up on this site yesterday. My folks sent me a video of the incident someone posted on Youtube.

Check it out.

Welcome Home

My parents were walking home the other day and saw a commotion at a neighbor's house. When they got closer, they saw their neighbors had an unwelcome visitor.


They hung around while the police and some animal removal experts dealt with the wayward gator and snapped these pictures.

They lasso the gator....







Good old duct tape for the mouth....







Load it up for a return trip to the swamp.

And you thought the Jehovah's Witnesses were a pain!

Blog Your Blessing Sunday XC: HAPPY EASTER

John 20: 11-16

But Mary was standing outside the tomb weeping; and so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb;

and she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.

And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him."

When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" Supposing Him to be the gardener, she said to Him, "Sir, if you have carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him away."

Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She turned and said to Him, "Teacher!"

Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, 'I ascend to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'"

Mary Magdalene came, announcing to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that He had said these things to her.



And on a lighter note, for those with children, a slice of life:

A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, 'Let my brother have the first pancake. I can wait.'"

Kevin turned to his younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus."

HAPPY EASTER