For those of you out there intensely worried about the
gastrointestinal health of my Favorite Panamanian – you may exhale a sigh of
relief. Yesterday I successfully concocted my first ever meal consisting of fresh
salmon steak. The fact that I was preparing fish should indicate yesterday was something
out of the ordinary and it was certainly that – the covid quarantined Mother’s
Day. While confined to home it was still a fun day as we took several calls
from both the New Jersey and the New Hampshire contingents.
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| The BRS Laughing at Terrorizing her Abuela |
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| She Could not Get Enough of this |
I was struck, again, by the deep pool of talent the
family is blessed with in its mothers. I was also pleased to see that both my
Favorite Son and Wingman went out of their ways to honor the special ladies who
bore their children. The FBR and BRS were very funny as they both seem to
appreciate that yesterday as all about venerating their moms. It was easy for
them to do so when they are confronted with that excellence on a daily basis.
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| BRS Giving the ABFA Mother's Day Breakfast in Bed |
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| With her Abuela in Less Quarantined Times |
My Favorite Panamanian awoke to my “go to” move
which is Mother’s Day breakfast in bed, as did both my daughter and the ABFA. One
of the funniest moments of the day was a Facetime call with the BRS. She and my
wife got into a game where the BRS would utter her patented dinosaur roar
whereupon my wife would cower in abject fear. The BRS thought this was high
entertainment and laughed uncontrollably. The FBR was back at her rock throwing
stream as Wingman evacuated the house to give my daughter some peace and quiet.
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| FBR Back at her Rock Throwing Stream |
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| Working on her Aim |
I wasn’t the only one nervous about preparing salmon
for the first time. My Favorite Panamanian, the designated and volunteer guinea
pig for my culinary explorations, took it upon herself to closely supervise my
efforts in the kitchen, smart girl. I, in turn, exuded patience as I was instructed
on the proper way to measure with teaspoons and how to turn the oven on. It was
Mother’s Day after all. We sat down for dinner with the number of the poison
hotline readily available. I could tell I had done it with the look of abject surprise
on my wife’s face. She liked it, in a real Sally Fields kind of way.
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| My Salmon Success |
In what I counted as a huge win she, between phone calls,
consented to descend into the Man Cave and watch a couple movies with me. All
in all it was a very good day where I felt the mothers in my life received the
love and honor they richly deserved. I noticed today that Frail Deeds Dancing
had gone over 200,000 all-time views. I know this is a small number when
compared to sites that probably do that in a couple hours but I was a little stunned
that this small effort aimed at my family and more specifically my granddaughters
would generate that kind of interest. There was a surge of views yesterday from
Turkmenistan, of all places. We live in a very small, if currently isolated,
world.
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| 007 Progress - Only One to Go! |
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RECURRING
CHARACTERS
BR3
– inbound
granddaughter #3, 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; 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; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her
single days in Brooklyn
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