Tripping Over Relatives

Thursday we traveled to the convent where my 90 year old Aunt Ruth has retired. Due to a heart condition she is in the nursing care part. She looks terrific but mentally is forgetting things and confused about people. I'm not sure she knew who we were but seemed to enjoy having company. Afterwards we had dinner with my cousin Billie Jean and her husband Tom. It has been decades since we've seen them. Of course my Dad, 85, in Florida was delighted that we had seen his sister. Billie's mother, their other sister, is 88. That's some good family longevity.


The weekend started off for us at the Delhi Skirt Game. This is a baseball game played in drag by local politicians, celebrities, firemen, police, EMTs, etc. to raise money for local people in need. The outfits are a hoot!



My cousin Jim does all the electric work for the event and has a VIP section on the concrete bleachers where he sets chairs and a fan.


There are food and drink booths, games, etc. We walked around and visited with lots of friends and relatives. Jim's son David does the firework display at the end of the evening. It was another great time.



We had planned to go to St. Lawrence church, dinner and the casino Saturday night but were invited to dinner and their river camp by my niece Debbie while we were at the Skirt Game. So we changed our plans a bit, went to St. Joseph Church where we ran into Ted's brother Kevin and Barb, then met my family at a restaurant in Lawrenceburg, IN. My niece Sis and her husband came too. From there we went to their RV camp on the Ohio River. It wasn't long before their son and granddaughter arrived. After a while they left and their daughter arrived with her entourage. We enjoyed our visit and headed home about 11.

We had another terrible storm through the night, lost electric but then it cleared up. Ted took me to Megan's baby shower this afternoon where I saw many of those that had come to brunch last week as well as my sister-in-law Barb's family that I have not seen in quite some time. I had a hard time getting a cell phone signal to have Ted come get me when it was over. Oh the rolling hills of southwest Ohio.

We stopped at Kroger's for a few groceries and are now just starting to get dinner together. This will be my last week in Cincinnati because I am flying to Florida next Sunday to be with Kristin who is having some surgery on Monday. I'll be gone a week. After I arrive home on the next Sunday, Ted leaves that Monday for a business trip, back on Tuesday and we head out on Wednesday.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. ~ Anthony Brandt