Chip off the Old Block

[Mortblanc]

This being the second oldest unattended section I will make a post here for today.

As I have aged I have noticed how much alike my son and myself have become even though he is in his late 30s and I am well into the sixth decade.

We live 300 miles separated and do not converse on a constant basis, perhaps one e-mail per week just to keep touch.

Still, I am amazed at some of the decisions we make that parallel each other. Our styles are the same, our tastes are the same, his hobbies have followed my own as he has matured, but he is more artistic and better at many of them.

He sends me a picture of a new hat and it will be identical to what I have just purchased. It is much the same with knives and firearms, trucks and trailers.

I have effectively cloned myself, and did a magnificent job, both of us being superior examples of dashing manhood.

Sometimes I wonder how the DIL copes. I think she relies on Tequila.

Now the daughter tends to take after her Mom and is the apprentice nut job of the family!