Updates and The Clearing Continued

As of last Thursday RTGFKAR has now been here in Panama one year. We are heading out to dinner at Las Molinas tonight to celebrate.

Old Girl has moved in. Well, not quite. We've made a bed for her from old towels out on the patio. She's not a house dog. We feed her in the early evening which, I'm thinking, is something her actual owners may not do. She is free to go at any time, of course, but as long as she hangs out here, I can't look at her skinny self and not feed her.

Our new grass is green and our flowers are, well you know, flowers. Pretty and all that.

It hasn't rained for a week.

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Charly was the first of Sharman's converts to the idea of "clearing" the ghosts from the store. After her, the other two were easy. Charly is Doc's wife and usually a stable, rational woman who seldom makes any sort of decision without first acquiring as much information as possible. She is a self described "information junkie" and a quick study who devours books at a prodigious rate. Where her rationality leaves off though, is where any sort of magic begins. Not the slight of hand, divert the eye, trickster magic of stage magicians, but rather the, yes I will use the term again, woowoo magic inherent in nature and beyond. Dancing and chanting can make it rain, foreseeing the future is possible, auras exist and are readable and ESP is merely a gift that some people possess are a few examples of Charly's magic beliefs. Naturally, she and Sharman had become fast friends. And naturally, when Sharman said the ghosts had to go, Charly was fully in favor.

The "clearing" plan was then sold to Charly and Doc's oldest daughter Laura and her boyfriend "Big" Brian. Both were children of nature who had fled the ugliness of the city to find their comfort zone in the rural wilderness of southern Colorado. There they had thrived and were not unfamiliar with life's "exceptional" moments. Laura had heard Bigfoot at close range, previously had seen ghosts and believed much of the supernatural was natural. Brian had traveled in India and witnessed the spiritual magic of Indian gurus and had hands that could generate intense heat at a moment's notice; useful healing tools for bruises and sprains. He was also tall and thick, hence the appellation "big" before his name. If worse came to worser as Doc put it, Brian might be able to scare the ghosts away.

Tomorrow, the plan.