My Favorite Panamanian has always waged a lively contest with the back
yard, squirrels, rabbits and chipmunks concerning their raids on her vast
garden complex. A couple weeks ago I noted the arrival of a new herbivore as Mother
Nature pulled out the big guns and sent a couple deer to inhabit the patch of forest
behind the house. These are apex predators when it comes to some of my wife’s favorite
flowers so she was not amused. I was checking the ring camera history yesterday
and noted some strange activity around midnight. When I pulled up the video, first
one then two full-grown deer walked into the picture and sized up the front
yard gardens. War could be imminent.
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| The Visitors |
I love my now venerable Camry. I’ve had it longer than any other car I’ve
ever owned and it hardly ever needs maintenance. It does however seem to have a
troubling tendency to attract road debris. For the third time (second in the last
year) I had a tire blow out on me last night after running over something in
the road. I was on my way to the grocery store after work and only going about
75MPH on I-190 when the car in front of me swerved to avoid the debris that got
me. I could have yanked the wheel to evade it but I had no desire to rejuvenate
my airborne status. I got the car to the side of the road and decided to wimp
out and call AAA instead of changing it myself. Keene Friend passed by on his
way home and called me just as AAA showed up. My Man Card and ego took another big
hit when the person emerging from the truck was female. She was extremely
competent and had me on my way in less than five minutes after arriving
although my self-image will take some time to recover.
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| Besson Progress |
RECURRING CHARACTERS – 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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