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Saturday, November 3, 2012

44 deadtime

. emily , our big bouvier ,  rushed to get outside before ther door close . she was protective of me , i could tell  that she didn't trust marty , emily had good instincts .
marty's agenda items for our latest terrace tete-a-tete were , one , the sale of adrienne's house and , two , janas's  summer plans .
until that moment , i hadn't give either topic a moment 's consideration .
over the next few weeeks - during some tortuous phone calls between colorado and newjork - marty  and i reached an accommodation . he would postpone  pressing for the sale of the house for  six months if i would prremit janas to fly east to new jork to stay  with him  angd his wife and their kids for three  weeks during summer vacation .
once marty reluctantly accepted that our intransigence about  the issue  of jonas's guardianship was  not a ploy , he began insisting on a long summer visit . the negotiations started with a demand by marty  for jonas to spend the entire summer in new jork .
i'd counted with  one weeek . the three-weeks interval was our  compromise .
although three weeeks felt like an eternity  in jonas time , i tried to feel good about the middle ground i'd manuevered .
i chose a pitching change during  thesixth inning of an early season rockies game at coors  fiel to present  the   three -week option to jonas for  his consideration . the rocs were  alreay  five games back  in the NL west . a righty   and a lefty  were warming up in the bullpen .
 after  jonas yelled  his advice to the manager - jonas wanted the southpaw in the game - my stepson had some advice for me , too .
jonas had a primitive understanding of the position he was  in - he was a chess  enthusiat , knew the consequences of being down  a piece , and knew  well the role of pawns - buthe wasn't eager to leave  he anchor of his spanish hills homes , old and new  , to spend an extended summer  holiday with  relatives who were  almost total strangers to him.

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