Family

We are beginning to see the first arrivals for our 4th of July gathering. Sterling, Julie & daughter Vivian arrived yesterday from Las Vegas, along with friend Eric Soland from Tucson, and Gary & Char arrived late Monday from Springfield. We have taken the boat tour of the lake today and today Vivian was the first to catch a trout from the viewing dock. We're looking forward to Cris and Sandy tomorrow and Josh and Kelly on Friday night.

more later....................

This is later.

We have consumed our second group meal and listened to many stories from the "kids" about situations from their childhoods and I have concluded that we were not completely aware of all of the details of some of the things that they did as youngsters. There were certain omissions at the time. Not outright lies, well maybe some, but mostly just the collective amnesia of teenagers. We are somewhat surprised that they are still among the living and I am not sure that I want to know everything. It may be better at this point in my life to not know certain details, although they have assured us that they are already cleaning up their recollections for us to lessen the potential impact on our parental psyche's.