Day 6 of Rummaging Photos

A semi-big event happened yesterday during my Favorite Panamanian’s latest shopping expedition with her mom. She had released me to my own devices, which meant a movie, of course (see below).  They decided I needed a new pair of jeans. I think it was the holes in the back that convinced them. Like any red blooded man who was raised in New England, jeans are my standard pants, even though youngsters probably think I’ve outgrown them. Outgrowing is part of the story. For many years I sported 34” by 34’ for a size. With the advent of middle age and my promotion to colonel that size eased up to 36” by 34” and I believed that ship had permanently sailed. I recently wrote that I had finally got my weight back down to what it was when I was a major. My wife also noticed that my current jeans, in addition to the holes, looked kind of baggy on me. They showed up last evening with the smaller size and when I nervously tried them on, they not only fit but there was a little leeway as well. Kind of cool.

Let’s plunge into today’s continuation the memory rummaging with photos mined from the basement storage bins:

FAVORITE PANAMANIAN AND PARTIES

Always Elegant

The Traditional Family Thanksgiving Football Game 2002

The Famous Farmhouse Parties, Carlisle, PA 2001

The Favorite Panamanian

Wife Surrounded by Battalion Officers' Wives
Ft Campbell, KY 1999

Business Woman, Kansas, 1996

FAVORITE SON

Always Loved Animals

Keene Friend Visits Carlisle 2001

Unintentional Twins Early 2000s Fairfax, VA

High School Fairfax, VA 2003

With Namesake Nephew at Gramma's House

FAVORITE DAUGHTER

At Friendly Farm, I Think, Probably with Great Aunt, Early 90s

Too Cool for School with Gramma

Always Ready to Entertain

Teenaged Unhappy with Connections in Panama, 2000

Dad Happy with her Sword Stroke Cut of Graduation Cake
Mom, Not so Much, Carlisle, 2001

SON AND DAUGHTER TOGETHER

Hawaii, 1994

With Mom and Her Garden & Estrella Ft Campbell, KY 1998

Back Yard, Ft Campbell 1997

Keene Freind Visit to Carlisle, PA 2001

Staging the Christmas Play, for Gramma, Keene 1995

FAMILY

Celebrating 50 with my "Brothers" Keene Friend & P.C.R.
Keene, NH 2005

With Pittsburgh College Roommate and Wives
Keene Pumpkinfest 2005

Swimming Panamanian River with Wife Early 2000s

Christmas Card in Front of our Charlton, MA Home 2006

Christmas Pose, Kansas 1995

ANCIENT HISTORY

Mom Visiting us in Burke, VA 2000

My Two Younger Sisters, Thanksgiving, 1971, Palmer, MA

Dad & Second Wife, 1974

My Favorite Panamanian & Twin Sister Early 1960s

Wife (r), Twin Sister & Mom

ARMY LIFE

Basic Training Ft Knox 1978 Top Row (r)

As Company Commander Taking Lieutenants on Staff Ride
In Front of Little Round Top Gettysburg, PA 1986
Lt on Left Became a 4-Star General

In Helicopter During Peacekeeping Mission Sinai, Egypt 1994

Receiving Award from General I was Aide-de-camp For 
1989, Washington, DC

One of My "Project" Cadets At Bryant College as an
ROTC Instructor 1992

MISCELLANEOUS

In Hot Tub After Completing 1st (and Only) Marathon
Cousin's House, Schroon Lake, NY 2003

50 Years Olds, Keene, NH 2005

Best Man I Ever Knew, Soxfather Early 2000s
On the Girl Watching Balcony, Ocean City, MD

On Caribbean Island, Panama with my Buddy Fred 1982

With Mom and my 2 Sisters Late 90s

Two horror movies by myself in a row, a new record with Barbarian. A really good horror movie that slowly builds up tension and then delivers with a knockout underground confrontation. The heroine is challenged on a number of levels by uncaring police, a Me Too exposed actor, not to mention the denizens of the deep. She stumbles upon a strange passage way hidden beneath her rented house in one of those blighted areas of Detroit. Once the mystery reveals itself, she determinedly battles for her life against seemingly supernatural odds. Georgina Campbell was tone perfect as the lead actress struggling not to make the “horror movie wrong choices”. Really good movie.

Two movies fell in my A-Z effort, both keepers (although one only because it was a gift), The Birds (classic Hitchcock, has aged well and Tippi, oh my) and The Black 6 (possibly worst movie ever made, unintentional comedy through the roof, NFL players in a Blaxploitation film).

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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; Connecticut Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high school, renowned sailor of the big river; 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 3^rd 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