79 bar falls 29.88 0mph NE dew-point 53 Summer evening
Full Thunder Moon
Next weekend is the Ellis cousin reunion in Mineola, Texas. Kate and I fly down on Friday, back on Sunday. A short visit to the really hot weather. All the folks of my father’s generation on the Ellis side, that is his siblings and their mates, are dead. This is cousins and their kids and grandkids.
Though I was born in Duncan, Oklahoma I know the Ellis side of the family less well than the Keaton (mom’s side). We moved from Oklahoma when I was only year and a half or so to Indiana, mom’s home state. I want to get to know them better. They are family, after all, a main connection to the past and through it to the future. Like much in this life family is about showing up. Otherwise, no family.
Kate had a lot of charts to do today, so I did the errands. We had lunch, a nap and a business meeting. We have overshot our travel budget, by a good ways. If she failed to earn the big bonuses, we would have had to pull in the belt a bit. We discussed ways to stay on budget. Important and not always easy for us.
Got in the mail today Freedom Moves West, a whole book on the Western Unitarian Conference. It may contain enough information that I won’t have to go to the Minnesota History Center. More and more I look at Amazon and on-line shopping as a way to save trips and therefore fuel. Budgeting trips into the city is something I’ve not done too much. I just hop in the car and go. Nowadays though I think. Try to put two things together.
Next Tuesday I go in to help with a Sierra Club mailing. That day I’ll visit the museum and head over to the Minnesota History Center if I need to find anything there. Like that.
