Family Reunion 9-21-08

We had a family reunion of sorts yesterday. Hope and Johnny had came down as well as Pat and Tammie. Cindy and her daughter and Mrs. Sparks was there. Mike and Rosie came with their grandson Alex.

We were going to BBQ but I was late and mom said to get some chicken from KFC. Hope said we were going to eat at 4 and it was only 1:30. When we got there they were already eating as Hope had went and gotten some BBQ meat, sandwich meat, potato salad, baked beans, had made some deviled eggs, and a salad.

It was a comfortable time. Lots of talk about the gas prices which ranged from 3.76 a gallon to 4.25 a gallon. Aunt Pat talked of people on the highways being caught by the hurricane as they fled from the coast. Apparently several had died, many had run out of gas, and there was lots of problems in shelters.

We talked about the mentality of Americans case in point being the free sandwiches that were offered at a shelter being refused. The volunteers being treated like janitors and babysitters. People who had run out of money stealing food from stores and delivery vans. People left the coast because of a hurricane and got motel rooms but then when they werent allowed to return to their homes they couldnt afford to stay in the motel and didnt have cash reserves for food and apparently didnt wish to goto a shelter. So what do you do. You steal, rob, cheat, scrounge and more so if you have a family to provide for.

Mike and Rosie came a bit late and Rosie brought a hot fudge cake and it was a sight to see all the ladies swoop down on the cake. Seriously. lol. After the rush I got some cake and my first comment was get me some biscuits. Grandma used to make biscuits with a hot chocolate gravy that we all loved as kids. That gravy in the hot fudge cake was a bit thick but tasted just like Grandma's chocolate gravy.

Johnny related a story that he had a friend whose family had run a radio station in Alabama that failed. The friend had gotten a hard drive and didnt know what was on it or how to access it so he called Johnny who is good with computers. Johnny got the drive unlocked and it was a repository of music. 60000+ songs from the 1920's to the mid 2000's. He said he made a copy and put it in a safe deposit box in a bank.

Alex is 4 years old and he was grumpie when he got there but after some Dr. Pepper he perked up and wanted to wrestle. I admit it was good to be around a young person again.

The place where Jim Ed has the trailer has went thru some changes. At first it was a mini farm with an old barn where Manboy raised swine and chickens and the neighbors ran cows. Jim Ed got some goats but I dont think they lasted. Now the old barn has razed and the ground leveled and they brought in horses. Pop the next door neighbor has swine and I saw half a dozen piglets running around in Jim Ed's yard. I saw a few guinneas also along with chickens and cats.

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