The rest of my miscalculated weekend was rescued by Keene Friend and the Cantankerous Friend. With a completely open Saturday, I suggested a drive through the countryside, which we hadn’t done in a while. My Favorite Panamanian, in a counter offer, suggested we drive up to my hometown. She knew she had played a trump card due to my predilection to enjoy time spent with hometown friends. I’m quite sure she had ulterior (tax free shopping) motives in play but I’ll take it. We arrived at Keene Friend’s house to find a spastic chipmunk doing the kicking chicken in his side yard. It must have gotten into some mouse or rat bait from a neighboring house. My wife wanted to rescue it but Keene Friend opined it might be rabid. That ended the rescue talk, and the little guy started burrowing into the lawn. I told Keene Friend it was kindly digging its own grave.
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Keene Friend Surrounded by Knuckleheads |
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BRS and her Legionary Encampment |
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BRS' Adjusted Smile |
Four movies fell in the A-Z watch, three keepers and one, not so much: Red Sparrow – Lawrence can do anything and she effortlessly carries this spy drama; Reign of Fire – both McConaughey And Bale are in serious overacting overdrive but the dragons save the movie; The Relic – should have been a good horror/monster movie, except it isn’t, reject; Remember the Titans – one of those Disney feel good movies that sends a powerful message thanks to Denzel.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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 her single days in
Brooklyn; Czech Connection – Czech couple who’ve become good friends
along with their daughter (the Czech Shadow); 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; Seis Amigos - two couples from our condo complex
and my wife and I; Soxfather – my
brother-in-law (whom I miss more than I can ever explain); Tia Loca –
wife’s younger sister; Wingman – my
son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s mom,
of course
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