<p>Actually, I think the Loyal Order of Marmots, CC Chapter, predates the International Order of Friendly Marmots, AND has a nicer ring to it. </p>
<p>Even if we never actually applied for a charter.</p>
<p>I applied to the IOFM, but they said they wouldn’t let me join until I renounced my membership in Possum Lodge. I said I was able to change, I guess, but only if I have to.</p>
<p>I think you’re right, mommusic. So I move that we consider making them a probationary junior affiliate, with full membership dependent on what kind of adult beverages they have to offer.</p>
<p>If the CC dads are involved, it’s a very elaborate scheme, because I actually held the newspaper in my hands and read the column, and Mr. Turner has been writing The Slice since long before I moved away from the area five years ago.</p>
<p>Sadly, I must report no marmot sightings today. A friend and I took a 2-hour walk on the Centennial Trail along the Spokane River this afternoon, and there was not a single one of the critters to be found. Maybe it’s too hot, although I did overhear H’s mom grumbling about marmot droppings on the patio the other morning.</p>
<p>Please to be reassured that the Good Marmots are still on duty. Want to see what I took a photo of, as we walked across TFSFH’s soon-to-be college campus last Thursday afternoon? This. And of course he escaped serious injury just two days later. They Are Still On Guard. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.</p>
<p>WashDad we know it’s you.</p>
<p>I’m working on a Marmot Cocktail. The Marmotail? What should be in it? SB? JM? You two are our resident experts, no?</p>
<p>Mootmom. We are SO on your side…</p>
<p>My gosh, can’t leave my girls on SA unsupervised for a moment!!
When last I left our heroines they were talking about Fatburgers (I thought this wasn’t a real place until I was watching the news yesterday and they mentioned that Queen Latifah was buying in to the Fatburger chain. Who knew, here I am deprived in NYC).</p>
<p>Now,</p>
<p>Mootson, was in an accident and on the mend, LFWB has to get out of the way of typhoons but I am glad that all are safe.</p>
<p>Ya drink a couple of wallbangers, sit back and check your eyelids for holes, you miss the stories about french men with a little eau de rank, and Slugg gives up your favorite broke down bucket to Counting Down to use as a crash helmet. But hey, she’s one of the family so Me and my bucket can take one for the cause.</p>
<p>Question here,</p>
<p>How come we haven’t found a way for those marmots to teach our kids how to drive? </p>
<p>I am feeling like my last name is van winkle because SBson has become a playa for goodness sake!! EK wrote about her D being a rising senior and I’m saying to my self these kids are still in middle school (yep, it’s official I am having senior moments and I am fixated on days gone by).</p>
<p>However, leave it to Mootie to make sure that marmots are on the east coast campus waiting for TFSFH’s arrival. No one can out do the power of a mom!</p>
<p>Alu-
Hmmmm… have to think about the ingredients of a marmot cocktail… maybe we can model it after the “fuzzy navel”</p>
<p>Fuzzy Marmotail</p>
<p>Into one cocktail glass, pour:
1 shot Blueberry Schnapps (in honor of Wash"possum"Dad)
1/2 shot vodka
1 tsp. Baltimore “Hon”-ey (in honor of m&sdad)</p>
<p>Fill with:
Florida Orange Juice (in honor of parent2noles)</p>
<p>Pop in a plump maraschino cherry skewered with a semaphor flag (in honor of LFWBDad).</p>
<p>Bottoms up!</p>
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<p>TSFKAWDJ is working at Fatburger in Issaquah this summer. </p>
<p>Just thought you’d like to know…</p>
<p>jmmom, jym - I knew you’d come through. Fuzzy Marmotails and Fatburgers all around!</p>
<p>Fat and fuzzy, just how we like 'em in Sinner’s Alley. Let’s leave slim and sleek for the cold cold world outside our doors.</p>
<p>That’s right Washdad it was you who mentioned jr. was working at the Fatburgers.</p>
<p>Sorry for the oversight.</p>
<p>Dahling,</p>
<p>I am old and I am not good with acronyms (i forgot what it means)</p>
<p>TSFKAWDJ reminds me of my last eye exam (and I couldn’t figure that out either).</p>
<p>I tend to read them all as the-son-from-something or other!</p>
<p>mootie–here we call those groundhogs. But they might be subbing for the marmots on their off days.</p>
<p>At OSU this weekend we saw the world’s tamest squirrels. I guess the students have trained them to practically eat out of their hands, because they were definitely not the nervous critters we have at home.</p>
<p>sybbie–“checking eyelids for holes”–not a phrase I’ve ever heard before but one I’ll definitely repeat! :D</p>
<p>Sorry. TSFKAWDJ would be “The Son Formerly Known as WashDad Jr.”</p>
<p>shhhhhh… I know it <em>thinks</em> it’s a groundhog, but really, it’s just a marmot in disguise. As I said, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. ;)</p>
<p>And I’m reading TSFKAWDJ as: The Son Formerly Known As … but I got lost on the WDJ.</p>
<p>Edit: Do I get partial credit?</p>
<p>WDJ, WashDadJr.</p>
<p>Doesn’t seem to have the possum affiliation as yet. Future inductee, I’m sure.</p>
<p>Team effort, mootie.</p>
<p>Checking eyelids for holes is what my 89 year old dad calls taking a nap.</p>
<p>Sure it’s a marmot in disguise. I have a picture of my dog in a buffalo costume I made so he could star in a history day video with my then-12 year old.</p>
<p>My D is in a Facebook group called “In & Out is Better Than Jesus.” We are fully addicted to In & Out in this family. We know the whole secret menu. (We like our fries animal style.) </p>
<p>LOVE the whole Marmot thing, Renee!! Thanks for being a good spotter!</p>
<p>I think Mini could be the covert op, too.</p>
<p>"(We like our fries animal style.) "</p>
<p>Err . . . what does that mean? I think I want to know, but maybe not.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be more fun to go to In & Out and order them, to see what you get?</p>