It was one of those damned long day’s
journey into night yesterday as, for reasons I’m still trying to understand, I
stayed up very late to watch the end of the 7th game of the world
series even though I wasn’t invested in either team. In the end this is why we
watch sports as the multimillionaires playing the game reverted to something we
can all identify with – an inborn need to compete and win in a decisive game.
It was highly entertaining if at the glacially slow pace that modern baseball
has devolved to. There’ll be a lot of questions about the Houston manager’s
pitching decisions but I had to admire the resolute nature of the eventual
champs. The Nationals just refused to admit they were beaten and rallied late
to stun the favored Astros.
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| BRS with Security Detail |
Earlier in the day I had a nice conversation
with my younger sister. She and her husband are doing some house hunting
reconnaissance and wanted to know what I could tell them about the nearby town
of Auburn where they were scoping out a house. It would be so cool to have her
so close by. It’s at this point I have to tell myself not to get excited.
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| Beyond Words |
My Favorite Panamanian and I were
treated to conversations with both granddaughters energetically preparing for
Halloween. The BRS was greeting everyone showing up at the door since their neighborhood
had trick or treating last night. She wanted to be everybody’s friend while
Riggins finally decided he had security responsibilities and barked at
everybody, at least until they came within patting distance. At that point all
ferocity succumbed to a well-placed pat on his head. The BRS donned the duck
costume made famous by her elder cousin a couple years ago. She as every bit as
cute as the FBR was when it was first unveiled. My granddaughters are nothing
if not photogenic.
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| FBR Seeing New Front Yard Addition |
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| It's Jack!!! |
The FBR returned home from pre-school
to a Wingman engineered surprise. I wrote yesterday about her fascination with
Jack Skellington from a Nightmare Before Christmas. She came home to find an
inflated Jack on her front lawn. The pictures showed her jumping up and down
and eventually hugging her new idol. You just can’t make this kind of stuff up.
She’s very excited about Halloween this year and is more prepared to defend her
candy horde from the parental depredations she’s experienced in prior years.
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| FBR Hugs are the Best! |
I’m getting excited as we head into
November (how is that even possible!). This marks the series of events I spend
all year anticipating: the FBR birthday, my birthday pub crawl, Thanksgiving
celebrated twice, and finally Christmas, which for me remains a magical time of
year. The foliage is still stunning around here but I think we’ll lose a lot of
it tonight with a major wind storm blowing through. I’ll have to keep an eye on
that dead tree I wrote about a couple weeks ago.
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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; 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 involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); 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; Deckzilla
Dude – senior citizen carpenter/contractor; 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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