Return of the fat bastard - When your beers are gone

July 25th 2016

      At this point I have the Papa Squatch Day Scare thing down pretty good. I was up at 7:45 and they walk through the door with Jen at 8 o'clock. I am so proud of Jennifer today is her first day as a production manager on a series starting from square one. She's done a movie and she took over the second half of Legends of tomorrow I know she's going to be great at it. It was a beautiful day today really easy to boot there little butts outside. The two of them were in a really funny mood. Bella was sitting on the swing slowly moving back and forth. Christo was sitting on the lawn chair staring into space. So I turned the hose on them! Bella ran away laughing. Christo said in his best whiny voice " Don't Papa" so I squirted him again. And I kept squirting him until he started running and laughing. It works better if you have a cattle prod but all I had was a hose. It was about 10:30 or 11:00 when Rylan and Avery dragged their teenage butts out of bed. For some reason that I can't quite fathom Ryland is applying for a job as a laborer for a roofing company. He works as a lifeguard for the city of Prince George. He doesn't get full shift because he's the FNG. So I helped him with his resume. I told him it's a roofing company he doesn't care about your Elementary School awards or that you like to play chess. He's probably more interested in the fact that you are 6 foot tall and 160 pounds of wire and athletic and can probably run up and down a ladder with a square of shingles on your shoulder all day long. I doubt he cares whether you can read or write. Also his resume was 3 pages long. We got it down to one page and a cover letter espousing the values of conscientiousness and hard work. If I was him, I'd still rather be a lifeguard! They are headed to Australia in November for a year. Some kind of work program. So I'm sure he wants to make as much money as he can before he goes. But frying your brains out on top of a roof hardly seems worthwhile. Unless of course you're a fiddler. or a cat on a hot tin one.

      Since the Grandkids we're already wet we decided it was time to take the tarp off the pool. That and the fact that it was now about 25 degrees. The recent bout of rainy fall like weather though Handy in keeping people from moving here, does very little to encourage proper pool maintenance. I might have missed an entire week of chemical treatment. When we pulled back the tarp the bright blue bottom of the pool was a little more on the green side of blue. That's what Grandkids are for. I'm a firm believer in exposing kids to dirt, grime and small doses of toxic chemicals. Toughens up their immune system. A little bit of algae won't kill them! I hope. They were a little bit hesitant about it especially after I used the pool brush to sweep the bottom of the pool and turned the entire pool green.There was only one thing to do.No kid with Squatch blood in them can resist getting the pool and trying to drown Papa Squatch! It took all of 30 seconds for them to forget about the algae and concentrate on staying out of the way of the Squatchnamis that were coming at a tremendous rate. I got them to run around the outside of the pool while I stood in the middle with the skimmer scooping up the floaters ten at a time. We were in and out of the pool all day.

       I made Vegan banana pancakes for lunch. Avery Is vegan and Ryland is trying to be vegetarian. I told him " If God didn't want us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them taste like meat! They would taste like radicchio!" To be honest the pancakes were vegan by accident. I bought the wrong pancake mix. This one uses milk, eggs and butter. Not quite up to vegan standards. I was not aware of that I thought I bought just add water. So I did when I made Blueberry pancakes for Squidly and the Grandkids last week. I did it again, this time with bananas and everyone was happy. It's definitely a denser pancake more like a crepe. I had mine Elvis style rolled up and peanut buttered! We were back in the pool when Ryland and Avery were headed out to the bus stop. They were meeting a friend down town and then taking the sky train to the airport for their flight back to Prince George.

      I shot some hoops with the Grandkids until Christian arrived to pick them up after work. I have them all week and Dr Dan still has Otto on the Island. I had dinner with the lovely Lisa and on her way to bed CT got home and they were sitting out on the porch gabbing. I wanted to go to the Heritage Grill tonight and it was getting late, I left them on the deck and when I got there I ended up 11th. I got on at 11:00.

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That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out Y'all