Journal entry by Elizabeth Finamore —
One year. One full year. One year very full of adapting to our new reality.
One year ago, on May 21 of 2022, Bob Finamore crossed Home plate and began playing on the best ballfield any of us could ever imagine. Guessing he may have had thrown some perfect games and is probably batting 1000.😀
As for us, his biggest fans? His Fin Fam? What did we do to mark the occasion?
Well, yesterday (Saturday) we went to the cemetery to visit his spot and put some flowers in the vase.
We believe the marker is just right.
We hope you do too.
We got food from Los Rios for our supper. (No--we did not order salsa so spicy hot that it gives off steam, changes color and nearly melts the plastic container. The Finamore ladies do not have the "extreme" taste buds that the Finamore fella had!!)
Sunday morning, we gals went to church together at FBC. We even sat together for the whole service! We are well aware that depending on the Lord is what has gotten us to today.
We are well aware that the reason we so readily default to depending on the Lord is that our family was led for 25 years by a man who was truly a Man of God. Bob Finamore was a servant-hearted Christ-follower who would daily "BB the BB."
(*For those of you who never "kept the book" for a baseball/softball game, BB = base on balls = walk. Therefore "BB the BB" = "Walk the Walk." There is your trivia for the day.😉 )
I have spent hours trying to come up with something worthy, word-wise and eloquent, to put here today--but daughter Olivia actually had it just right in her posting so I will put that in here so that we reach our typical word count!!!
From Olivia Finamore Facebook post of May 21, 2023--