Family 'Reunion'

 We try to get our family together a couple of times each year in July and January. This has been a tradition now for many years. Our meeting place is always Rob's Restaurant in Brookville. We met this past week on Wednesday, July 15.

 We missed last January. Don was ill and the weather took a bad turn and never did moderate. We rescheduled a couple of times and then decided to give it up till summer. Wednesday was perfect. The weather couldn't have been prettier and those of us who are left - our numbers have diminished since we began these reunions - and everyone was well.

 Mom remembers taking Mae a piece of peanut butter pie (her favorite) last summer. Mae was in a nursing home and died the next month. The previous January (also 2015) her husband, Charlie, died. Before that it was Dad (June 2011). And earlier still, we lost Ray Cluxton. I do not remember Bob Masters ever attending these.

Doug Cluxton (l-r), Thomas Lowther, Lois Masters, Mary Schmidt

Shirley Cluxton, Joan Boyer and Don Boyer 

 Bill Schmidt (l-r), Thomas Lowther, Lois Masters, Mary Schmidt

Shirley Cluxton, Joan Boyer and Don Boyer 

'Chauffeur' Bill Schmidt and 'Miss Mary' Schmidt

 I always wear my chauffeur hat when I transport Mom. Tom Buhler bought this for me. I always act as though I'm living Driving Miss Daisy and he thought the hat would be appropriate. We all get a kick out of it. Mom mentioned it to the group when we were eating so I modeled the hat as we left.

 Rob's is a great place for our reunion ... all you can eat for one price and a pleasant, quiet place to spend a couple of hours on a weekday afternoon.

 Here's to January!