My Favorite Panamanian semi-shocked me yesterday when she revealed we only had twelve more days on the beach! We don’t leave Panama until April 10th, seventeen days hence, so I was a bit confused (I know – a natural state for me). Apparently her close up plans for the condo include some additional time back in David, so there is hope I can convince her to add a few more beach days. I’ll have to be careful because when she gets into her luggage packing zone she is not to be trifled with. Returning here from Panama City, as much fun as that was, was a lot like coming home. My wife already claims it takes a small explosive device to separate me from the beach. She may be on to something.
My Double?!
Now that I have, in exhaustingly length
over the past couple posts, fully documented all the fun we had in the capitol
city, it’s time to catch up with the granddaughters. In the photo above, taken
of the BRS from her pre-school class, the ABFA immediately thought she could
see me reflected in my granddaughter’s face. I was intensely pleased to hear
this doppelganger entitlement but as I looked closer, she’s making a pretty
silly face and if that’s what it took to make her look like me maybe I shouldn’t
be so honored. What the hell, I’ll take it, she’s so cute. Both the BRS and BR3
were in high form last night for the Family Friday Facetime call. While I’ll
miss the beach, I can’t wait to experience granddaughter hugs again.
Original Photo
BR3 HAs Her Own Collection of Silly Faces 
And (on the left) a Very Serious Look 
BRS and BR3 
BR3 at Gymnastics this Morning
The FBR was also on the call last night
recovering from a two-day sick out from school. She sprouted a fairly aggressive
fever on Thursday but was obviously feeling better last night. When I told her
I hope she feels better she reacted as if I had insulted her. She said, “Grandpa
I’m already feeling better!”. It was obvious she seriously doubted my sanity
(join the club). I had to conduct the call by myself last night because my Favorite
Panamanian abandoned me to escort the upstairs neighbors to the David feria (the
annual city fair). Out of revenge concerns (see yesterday’s post) and not wanting
to leave the beach, I stayed home (she’d didn’t have enough C4). I was glad I
did as it was so good to hang with the family, even if over the electromagnetic
spectrum. Wingman looked exhausted but all his hard work opening his new restaurant
has paid off with spectacular results for which the owners specifically
assigned responsibility to him. We also got a dry season caliber sunset even
though it was a lonely beach. It was still the beach.
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| FBR Sporting her New Obsession Facial Masks |
Alright, I get it, You're Feeling Better 
Sunset Time
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| My Lonely Sunset Vigil - Solitary Chair on the Left |
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| Buzzards Conducted a Parade for me This Morning |
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; CRC - Connecticut
Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high school, renowned sailor
of the big river; Curbside Girls – close
friends of my daughter acquired during him 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; PCR - Pittsburgh College Roommate– high
school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; PCR+1 - Pittsburgh College Roommate’s wife; 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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