Despite some serious concerns from both families
when we first got together, my Favorite Panamanian and I continue to explore married
life. Yesterday we celebrated our forty-first wedding anniversary, so I think
its going to last. Most credit goes to my Favorite Panamanian whom I dragged
away from her beloved Panama and then flitted about the world while she raised two
remarkable children. She deserves most of the credit for hanging with me while
I try to set the world record for sustained adolescence.
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| Anniversary Dinner Last Night |
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| Our Dining Partners |
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| The Restaurant |
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| Wife Enjoying the Ambiance |
We celebrated yesterday with our upstairs
neighbors. We went to a Las Lajas restaurant that we’d heard about, most
recently from Wingman. It’s run by a couple of Swiss/Italian hippies and was
remarkable. It was a cool place with an open air restaurant overlooking a
cattle ranch and came with two resident dogs. Yesterday was canine laced as the
beach dogs cruised by for a check in as well. Great Aunt roundly chastised me
for not having any more biscuits to feed them.
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| Moon Over Condo Sunday Night |
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| Beach Dog Visit |
We finished off the day at the condo with
a cake we shared with the neighbors, who are quickly becoming great friends.
Speaking of great friends, I posted a note on Facebook about the anniversary (heartfelt
thanks from both my Favorite Panamanian and I for all the nice messages in response)
and an Army buddy recognized my best man from the wedding picture. I decided to
send him in an email in distant Thailand and was thrilled this morning to
discover a response where he caught me up on his life. I’ve got to figure out a
way to link up with him again. Thanks again for all the kind thoughts.
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| Cake Time |
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| Wife is Also a Magician |
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| Beach This Morning |
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RECURRING CHARACTERS:
ABFA – Amazing Best Family
Athlete - my daughter
in law; BR3 – Blog Reader #3 – granddaughter
#3; BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel -
second granddaughter; Cantankerous Friend – friend since grade school who likes to argue
about everything, poses as radical leftist to attract women; CRC - Connecticut
Riverboat Captain – another close friend from high school, renowned sailor
of the big river; Curbside Girls – close
friends of my daughter acquired during him her single days in Brooklyn; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Favorite Panamanian - the wife (of
course); FBR - First Blog Reader -
first granddaughter; First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Kindergarten Friend – friend
since kindergarten whom I reunited with after many years; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two close friends of my wife –
her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd Musquetera (musketeer); Namesake Nephew –
son of Great Aunt and Soxfather named after me; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member; 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; PCR - Pittsburgh College Roommate– high
school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; PCR+1 - Pittsburgh College Roommate’s wife; Riggins - also known as the
Grandpuppy, son's dog; Soxfather -
my brother in law; Tia Loca – wife’s younger sister; Wingman – my son in law; Wingmom – Wingman’s mom, of course
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