3 posts tagged “family”
Do you know any war veterans?
Submitted by Fightin' 6th Marines.
Absolutely every male in my close and extended family, stretching out to the in-laws and step-cousins and foster cousins going all the way back to World War One.
Except my dad.
And me.
Me barely.
Even some veterans among the women folk in family.
Gets sketchy before W.W.I. with the details; except for two known Battle of the Alamo participants.
The Vortex strikes again.
A foster-adopted-step cousin of mine is separating from her husband and moving back there.
Oh, the foster-adopted-step-cousin thing?
Yeah, I have a nightmarish M.C. Escher family tree.
Anyway, another one pulled back.
She'd been out of the place we shall not mention for better than 14 years.
I'm telling you, and myself, you have to watch these things; forever.
And they'd just adopted a two year old girl from China, as in 4 months ago.
Will China even let you keep an adopted child if you get separated/divorced?
Similarly, what were they thinking adopting a child if things were choppy?
Or was it the added stress of the kid thing that widened/exploited an existing crack?
Ain't nothing in this world for sure.
Excepting for how good hot dogs taste when slightly burned/blacked around the outer skin/casing.
Today was warm enough to open up the windows for ventilation and cook like a caveman all flame and noir style; i.e. blackened.
Smoke detector be damned, mmmwa-hahahaha.
Fire, meat (assorted beef pieces in a tube-shape), good.
I even read a book on the deck wearing only shorts and got the first official minor sunburn of the season.
Sweet.
On the first sunny day over 60 degrees F this year.
Butterflied boneless leg of lamb.
Savoury.
Baked brie with apricots, cranberries, almonds, and brandy in lattice-top pastry.
Tangy.
Greenbeans with pecans in sauce.
Well-balanced.
Affligem Abby "Noel" Christmas Ale from Belgium, 9% abv.
Warming and heady.
Braided breadsticks and salad.
Yummy.
Watching the kids open up and play with their presents under the tree.
Fantastic.
Feigning a medical condition that allows me to turn a deaf-ear to 90% of what my mom-in-law says.
Pure numbed bliss.
