Yesterday was another fun day at the beach
as we celebrated the 80th birthday of my wife’s uncle. It was
obviously lower key than some of the other birthday celebrations I’ve been associated
with but was still a lot of fun. We scorched some dead animal flesh on the
grill and then sent a birthday cake to its fitting end. I’m still trying to
figure out why Panamanians put all kinds of fruit in their cakes, forcing me to
eat around that infiltration. The Panamanians loved it. I was enlisted to mine
the ice cream which I could have used a jackhammer for. I’m thinking our
freezer is back in working order.
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| Birthday Lunch |
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| Birthday Boy with Cake |
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| Wife Presenting Cake |
We head back to David to return the
partygoers home and to take up another movie night. We also have to lay in some
supplies as well as buy a new hot water heater which I learned isn’t that
expensive. A return to hot showers would be more than welcome. Speaking of
welcome, I received conformation yesterday that we have a bona fide visitor
from the States inbound. None other than the Cantankerous Friend himself will
spend the last week of March with us and we are psyched. I’m sure there will spirited
discussions of everything I’m doing wrong but at least I have my secret weapon
(not really that secret) – the Favorite Panamanian. I’m really looking forward
to showing one of my oldest friends around my second home.
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| Sunset Last Night |
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| Beach This Morning |
Senor Brady finally made it official yesterday
and announced his retirement from the NFL. I tell the “kids” how fortunate they
were to grow up during the golden age of New England sports and Brady was a
huge part of that as far as the Patriots are concerned. In a time when most
athletes spend most of their time screaming for people to look at them and celebrate
them, Brady decided to forego a final season tribute games. I’ll remember him
as an absolute assassin that we were all fortunate to see play. A once in a generation
player.
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| Bye Tom, Thanks For all the Titles |
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RECURRING CHARACTERS
BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter #3, BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel - second granddaughter; FBR - First Blog Reader - first
granddaughter, ABFA – Amazing Best
Family Athlete = my daughter in law; Wingman – my son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s mom, of course; Keene Friends 1 & 2 – friends since
high school from my home town of Keene, NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great
Aunt - my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue
about everything, poses as radical leftist to attract women; Kindergarten Friend – friend since kindergarten
whom I reunited with after many years; Pittsburgh
College Roommate– high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in
Pittsburgh; Deckzilla – our backyard
deck which grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; PanaGals
– female relatives /friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife
accumulates wherever we have lived & their spouses; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member, Favorite Panamanian - the
wife (of course); First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her
single days in Brooklyn
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