We are truly fortunate today to be able to celebrate my Favorite Panamanian’s mother’s 90th birthday together. She’s still spry enough to enjoy the day which started with a birthday breakfast on Deckzilla. My wife has been decisively engaged over the past few weeks preparing for the birthday celebrations (more on that later) and today was her D-day. Sher really wants her mother to feel appreciated and I think that’s a done deal. My Favorite Panamanian planned a spa day for her mom which included a facial and hair styling. This was all accomplished around a nearly continuous regimen of phone calls from Panama and here as family and friends extended their well wishes.
Birthday Lunch
I
am impressed with my mother-in-law and not only for producing my Favorite Panamanian.
Despite her years, she remains ready and enthusiastic about getting out and
about. That’s what’s made the last few Covid laced years so difficult as it
rendered her a virtual prisoner of her home. We took her out for a very late
lunch (you’ll recall a spa day was in progress). She, with the able assistance
of my Favorite Panamanian, paid due a fairly large lava cake. My mother-in-law
thinks this will end the festivities surrounding her birthday. She doesn’t yet suspect
that my Favorite Panamanian has been laboring all summer to arrange a surprise birthday
party for her next Saturday. Remember, if you’re talking to her this week, she
doesn’t know about the party.
Deckzilla Breakfast
My Lunch Dates
While
the spa day was underway earlier, I was out on my back yard hill in preparation
for that event. I thought I was through digging for the summer but my wife
decided it would be a good time to implement her plans for lighting the new
patio I presented to her. That means I have to sink some holes for light poles.
That will happen tomorrow because today I used the last of my patio concrete
supply to prep footings for the poles. I first had to figure out how to
stabilize the wooden poles while the concrete dried. I impressed myself with a
jury-rigged system of a board and bungee cords. 
Lava Cake!
Two
movies fell in my A-Z effort, both keepers, Bandits (much funnier than I
remembered) and Bangkok Dangerous (Nick Cage – as always, awesome).
My Jury-Rigged System
RECURRING CHARACTERS:
ABFA – Amazing Best Family
Athlete - my daughter
in law; BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter
#3; BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel -
second granddaughter; Cantankerous Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue
about everything, poses as radical leftist to attract women; Curbside Girls – close friends of my
daughter acquired during her single days in Brooklyn; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which grew to monstrous dimensions
once my wife got involved in planning; Favorite
Panamanian - the wife (of course); FBR
- First Blog Reader - first granddaughter; First Friday – celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Keene Friends 1 & 2 – friends since
high school from my home town of Keene, NH; Kindergarten Friend – friend since kindergarten whom I reunited
with after many years; Maine and
Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my
wife is the 3rd Musquetera (musketeer); Namesake Nephew – son of Great Aunt and
Soxfather named after me; Neighborhood
Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia member; 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; Pittsburgh
College Roommate– high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in
Pittsburgh; Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; Soxfather
- my brother in law; Tia Loca – wife’s younger sister; Wingman – my
son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s
mom, of course
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