Wait a minute! Someone told me it’s
April! That can’t be right. I’m guessing I might have lapsed into “magical
thinking” where I wished this month away so I didn’t have to consider the date,
not too far hence, where I’ll have to leave my boogie boarding behind. That’s
not bad enough but yesterday, also in April, the Red Sox staged an unlikely
comeback for the ages and I didn’t see it. Yep. Missed it. After slavishly following
everything Red Sox related for the last few days I settled in to watch the game,
excited for a now healthy Chris Sale start. All of a sudden, the Red Sox were
behind 7-1 as Sale looked more like a batting practice pitcher than anything
near dominant.
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| Wife and I with her mom and PanaGal at Pizza Place |
I tried to assuage my feelings of despair
with a little boogie boarding. That helped and I didn’t object when my Favorite
Panamanian suggested we drive into the village and score some pizza, even when I
learned the Sox had closed the deficit to 8-5. Last year’s team would have
folded. We had a fun, if very humid, pizza dinner in Las Lajas. I joked with
our upstairs neighbors before we left an hour before sunset that I hoped we
would be back in time for the daily sunset ceremony. I then opined that odds
were long since I would be escorting three Panamanian ladies. I was fortunately
out of hearing range of said ladies when I made that comment. It was dark when
we started driving back to the beach.
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| At The Pony |
My Favorite Panamanian had been “jonesing”
for a pina colada at the Show Pony ever since she was treated to one during the
epic visit of our progeny in February. Since our route took us right by the
Pony, we ended up in their poolside bar. My wife was especially excited when
she saw the same bartender on duty but she had to send the drinks back when
they arrived without an appropriate level of decoration. I was impressed that
my 90-year-old mother-in-law did a respectable job herself with another huge
pina colada. Experience will tell.
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| BRS and BR3 Helping ABFA Cook |
This all leads up to reacquiring a Wi-Fi signal at the Pony and learning the Red Sox had, in fact, come back and won their
game with a walk off home run with two outs in the bottom on the 9th
inning. That homer wouldn’t have happened if the Baltimore left fielder hadn’t dropped
a routine fly ball by the previous batter. I immediately looked to the sky and thanked
Soxfather because I’m sure his spirit was circling in left field when that fly
ball went up. Whatever it takes. When I texted the “kids” earlier in the game
expressing my unhappiness, first the ABFA and then my favorite daughter texted
me videos and pictures of the granddaughters. That certainly helped my calm,
at the time. Soxfather and the granddaughters, a winning combo.
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| FBR and her Skateboard |
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| She's so Shy |
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| Can't Wait to See all Three, Maybe April isn't all Bad |
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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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