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| My Daughter, Wingman and their Threenager At Yesterday's Parade |
Part of getting older is leaving the fascinations
of youth behind. Halloween use to be one of my favorite days of the year for
all the candy and horror movie related reasons you can think of. I now have to vicariously
experience it through the efforts of my children and granddaughters. Of course,
that’s a bit of challenge since I still work and they are a couple hundred miles
apart.
The FBR had both of her parents in
thrall yesterday as my daughter took the day off from work so they could attend
the town Halloween parade. They were all in costume and had a very busy day. I
caught up with them just before FBR bedtime and the adults looked thoroughly exhausted.
The FBR apparently has been in what was described as “a mood” for the past few
days. My daughter wondered if it was just the excitement of Halloween or a forecast
of the FBR moving from being in the “terrible twos” to being a “threenager”. I’d
never heard that expression before and had to laugh.
The FBR was acting like a teenager and
didn’t want anything to do with us when we called until I told her we had a new
cat which she demanded to see. The cat was my wife wearing a cat mask which the
FBR took in stride. Before she could help herself a small grin escaped before
she clamped down. She then modeled her own costume for us and paid no more
attention until I warned her not to let her parents eat all her candy as they
had in previous years. This got her riveted attention as well as my daughter’s.
it is a grandfather’s duty to protect.
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| Two Incredible Ladies |
My Favorite Son was enjoying a
celebratory beer with his crew after yesterday’s successful grand opening of the
parking garage he oversaw the construction of for the past year. The ABFA made
everybody jealous when we learned the Red Sox victory parade went directly
below her Boston office yesterday. She and the BRS were waiting for the return
of my son after his celebration. My son posted a very nice tribute to the support
he received from both the BRS and the ABFA over the past year.
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| So Cool to See this Costume Made Famous by the FBR |
We had another of Jekyll and Hyde Halloween
nights in the neighborhood. The first year we had dozens of trick or treaters
but the past couple years we were left with a lot of excess candy as only a few
showed up. I thought we were in for another one of those until I answered the
door and there were literally thirty kids lined up. This happened three different
times. I guess they hunt in packs now but it was strange and exhausted all of
the resident candy, much to my Favorite Panamanian’s chagrin.
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RECURRING CHARACTERS
BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel - second granddaughter; FBR
- First Blog Reader - first granddaughter, ABFA –
Amazing Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law, formerly known both as MEF – Most Excellent Fiancé
& MEG – Most Excellent Girlfriend; Wingman – my son
in law; Keene Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school
from my home town of Keene, NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great
Aunt = my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College Roommate – high school
friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Deckzilla
– our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involed in planning; Maine and
Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife – her US sisters,
my wife is the 3rdmusquetera (musketeer); Buddy – AKA
the Wonder Pooch – family dog, a black lab – hates squirrels, died
in 2017; Riggins - also known as the Grandpuppy,
son's dog, surrogate grandchild while awaiting arrival of the BRS; 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; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close
friend and Panamanian mafia member, Favorite Panamanian - the wife
(of course); First Friday – celebrations to mark the First Friday
of the Week; Excellent Boss – my former direct boss at work; Voices
of Inappropriate Worth - members of public who come to every Worcester
public meeting to complain, all are on public assistance along with demeanor
issues
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