This year we have the rare opportunity to celebrate my mother in law’s birthday in person since she is the current Panamanian in residence. It’s been a fun day already with calls coming in constantly from family in Panama to extend birthday wishes. My wife’s brother and younger sister got into their usual text battle with each other while extending those wishes. It was almost too funny to bear and culminated with my brother-in-law sending out two pictures comparing a caterpillar to his sister’s current hairdo(see below). You have to know how funny these two are together to truly appreciate it but I know my brother in law is lucky to be a couple hundred miles away from his sister after he sent this.
My Gorgeous Lunch Dates Today 
The Caterpillar
I
took the two Panamanians out to lunch today to celebrate the birthday. We went
to Val’s in Holden for the first time in a very long time and were able to sit
outside. During the drive there my mother-in-law commented on our mercurial
weather and I related the old New England saying, “If you don’t like the weather,
wait a minute”. We received an object lesson in that while we waited for our
lunch to arrive. One minute the sun was bright and a couple minutes later it
started sprinkling before returning to bright sunshine. I’m glad the table came
with an umbrella.
The Similar Hairdo
Lunch is Served
I
didn’t think my contempt for our former president could increase, having
reached unheard of heights, but it has. I was channel surfing and caught a
documentary on New York City gossip columnist Cindi Adams. It turned out she
was good friends with the orange haired one and was used as a tool by him in
multiple situations, usually when it came to divesting himself of his latest
wife. What really caught my attention though was learning about the close
relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn. Anyone remotely familiar with 20th
century American history knows Cohn as one of the most despicable characters
ever to darken our shores. He was one of the driving forces behind the McCarthy
Red Scare hearings and had a long history of unethical legal practices. I guess
it shouldn’t surprise me that these two were friends and Cohn served as a
mentor of the Donald. Birds of a feather. 
The Hat Came in Handy with the Weather
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RECURRING CHARACTERS
BR3 – 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; Wingmom
– Wingman’s mom, of course; 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; Kindergarten
Friend – friend since kindergarten whom I reunited with after many years; 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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