Reunions

I went to the Allen reunion Sunday; that's my dad's side of the family.  It's the nearest I'll ever be to going to a high school reunion, since two of the 1944 cousins graduated with me in North Kansas City.  The other 1944 cousin stayed pretty close to where she was born in north Missouri.  When I gather with them, I feel like I'm the black sheep; they are all such wonderful people.  I'm sure none of them ever sassed their mother or father.  I guess somebody has to be the weird one, so here I am.   I had a good time visiting with everyone.  Cliff kept falling asleep driving home, which wasn't good... but we made it!

We plan to go to my other family reunion next Sunday, my mother's side of the family.  I haven't been to that one for quite a while, so it's time I see my Stevens cousins too.  It's a longer ride to Bethany, and I'm hoping Cliff won't be so sleepy coming home from that one.    

Cora spent the day today.  We didn't do anything special except for riding in the side-by-side down to the Corp of Engineers park to watch the Missouri River for awhile.  

We watched a fellow painting a boat.  He's up on the top in a light green shirt.

the guy is on a lower level in this picture.

Cora always wants us to take Gabe, our dog, along, so we leash him; when we get there, he pulls Cora around going to all the trees and anointing them.  He found a bird nest laying on the root of a tree and anointed that, too.  

Gabe seemed to find a lot of interesting smells inside this tree.

Cora will be ten years old Friday.  She has one more Tuesday to spend with us, then school starts.  We'll go to Higginsville again for Pizza Hut buffet that day.  Most of the other Pizza Huts still aren't doing the buffet. 

So that's what's going on.  In the garden, I chopped down the stalks from my latest harvest of corn.  I've planted my turnips, and they're all up, and there are some radishes up, too.  If I thought there was any kind of a chance we'd ever get normal rainfall again, I'd plant some spinach and peas before long.  I keep telling myself it has to rain here sometime, the way it keeps getting almost to us, then heads north or south.  Honestly, though, I wouldn't want some of the hard rains other areas have had; just across the river they had storms with 80 MPH wind.  No thanks!  I live in a trailer house.

That's about it for what we've been doing.  

PEACE