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| Cali-Gals Out for a Hike |
Yesterday certainly qualifies as the
least diverting day of the Thanksgiving Day weekend. The only joy I could elicit
from the day was that I did not have any of the hundreds of miles to drive back
home that marked my Army career on this specific weekend. I did smile as I was
out and about and saw the countless thousands who were unfortunate enough to be
on the road returning home. I wasn’t trying to be cruel but after so many years
of facing the hell that is holiday driving (and yes I’m thinking of you Connecticut)
it felt almost liberating not to be doing that.
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| Tree is Up! |
My Favorite Panamanian and I got out of
the house for the usual Sunday efforts and journeyed back to our old Charlton
haunts to purchase a Christmas tree. We have a favorite place that sells
quality trees cheap, as long as you pay cash. The longer drive home is always a
challenge given my perfunctory knot tying. I do miss the huge trees we used to
get for the soaring celling on the old house. We overestimated the size of tree
in the new house but the skillful application of a power saw and some top knot
pruning addressed that.
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| As are the Christmas Signs |
Once the tree is up and the lights
tested my sole function is to carry stored Christmas decorations up from the basement.
My wife, with ample evidence to back up her claims, believes I am extremely challenged
in the style department. So I spent a lot of time up and down with decorations
as she contemplated what the tree will eventually look like. She also supervised
the seasonal change of her “message signs” to the Christmas version. Do you
know anyone else with two complete sets of signs? I didn’t think so.
She was gracious enough to permit me
to watch the Patriots game unfettered by household tasks. The game was against
hated rival from New York (I know – redundant) who are having a down year but
can always be counted on to play the Pats tough. Yesterday was no exception
with the Patriots employing a bewilderingly ineffective defensive scheme. I get
the impression the defensive coordinator has all these wild ideas and Belichick
comes over after they blow up in his face and straightens everything out. The
Pats still have Brady which was all they needed at the end of the game where he
mounted the seemingly inevitable game clinching comeback.
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| Game On |
California checked in with the First
Blog Reader in high form bouncing from one side of the apartment to the other demonstrating
her prowess at throwing the ball and contorting her face into wild formations.
Wingman was also a frequent target as she repeatedly crawled to his location and
demanded to be picked up. I’ve written before that this is certifiably as a trait
she inherited from her mother who perfected it with me at a similar age and led
to the inevitable inability to deny her anything.
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