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| The BRS Surrounded by Role Models |
A very important event happened in the
life of the BRS this past weekend. She met one of her great grandmothers for
the first time. She also shares part of her name with this special lady. I know
this woman, the ABFA’s paternal grandmother, played a big role in molding the
ABFA’s values and outlook on life. As I said when the BRS first appeared – she was
very fortunate to be surrounded by a large number of very strong female role
models and this weekend she got to meet one of them. She is truly blessed.
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| Granddad Hangs |
Not much to report as I head into
Monday because I spent most of Sunday in a vegetative state recovering from
Saturday’s exertions and a cold that didn’t want to retreat. I developed a new
found admiration navigating around Netflix which I’d never spent a lot of time
doing. I usually just found what I went in looking for, watched it, and left (kind
of like my approach to shopping). Swirling through the different menus I found
a lot of stuff I’ll probably end up watching eventually, if I ever do retire. I
was in Netflix because my daughter is trying to convince me to watch the iconic
series Mad Men which I’d never seen before. Since she (and my son) are my pop
culture gurus I take their suggestions seriously. I am trying but I find liking
this series very hard because there is no one to root for. I want to strangle
each and every character (some more than others, granted). I’m up to episode
five of the first season and will keep on banging away at it hoping to discover
what made it so popular.
Wingman was scheduled to return to the
east coast late last night from his stay with his mother, helping her out as
she deals with the unfortunate passing of her husband. He sent me this picture
of a beautiful black lab and asked me (I thought jokingly) if I wanted another
black lab. I opened a message this morning to learn he was actually serious. His
mom now has 4 dogs, a cat, a bird, 2 lambs, a granddaughter, and a
great-granddaughter to take care of all by herself. While my heart immediately leapt
to getting another dog (I really miss having one) my brain overruled it since
we’ll be spending several months in Panama in upcoming years and that would
make it too hard. Anybody out there reading this who does want a lab, and I cannot
recommend the experience highly enough, please email me. I did point out to
Wingman that his daughter, the FBR, was a well know admirer of the canine
species. That dog lover rebelled against the ending of our FaceTime call last night
until she demonstrated some of her dance moves (to the music of Moana, of
course).
I polished off another book by Marc
Allan Edelheit, he of Stiger’s Tigers fame, with Lost Legio IX, The Karus
Saga. He posits the 9th Roman Legion of Emperor Hadrian was not
wiped out by Celtic tribes but instead transported to another world to fight in
wars there against evil. Edelheit does a fantastic job of bringing the reader
into the day to day life and fights of the Roman legionnaire. I can’t wait for
the next book in the series to come out.
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