I know there are many of us in New England who were genuinely concerned about the Favorite Panamanian on Wednesday night. A late May frost warning was blaring from all the news channels and we all know how much she relishes cold weather. That would be, not at all. My immediate concern was evacuating the beginning of her usual spring flower hordes inside for the night. I’m lucky in that there’s only about half the usual population of flower pots it will eventually reach in a couple more weeks, still, not a small undertaking. I love what she does each year to liberally festoon the grounds around her vast garden complex and Deckzilla with colorful flowers. Of course, flowers and frost do not get along, so the evacuation was called for. I made an attempt to demonstrate some initiative by starting the evacuation without orders, usually a risky maneuver with the expert of all things.
Deckzilla's Flowers
Since this involved saving her beloved florae, I got away with it. Temperatures returned to almost May normal, although she’s sitting upstairs right now with the fireplace going. I mean temperatures in the 60s, how can we expect to tolerate that! Morale took a body blow today when we learned the FBR has been sick the last couple days so she’ll probably not make the trip north tomorrow for BR3’s birthday party. My daughter’s cat, Pee Wee, added to my daughter’s early morning sick call with the FBR today by throwing up all over their bed. Raining and pouring.
Three movies fell in my A-Z watch, all keepers, completing my journey through the Dirty Harry universe, The Enforcer, great team with Tyne Daly; Sudden Impact, “go ahead, make my day”; and Dead Pool, early Jim Carrey and Liam Neeson roles, Patricia Clarkson a great foil and surprisingly hot.
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
No comments:
Post a Comment