10th Annual

I'm about to go incommunicado for the weekend, as sixty or so relatives from my mother's side descend upon our cabin on the Tickfaw for the 10th Annual Kinnaird Family (mini) Reunion. The Real Reunion includes descendants of all of my grandfather's 9 brothers and sisters - this is a smaller group of just his and Uncle Red's kids (Uncle Red is the guy who refused to leave his house in Bel Chase during or after Katrina and had to be forcibly evacuated by his son and a local deputy). The grand irony is, Papa passed about 8 years ago and Uncle Red has never been to a reunion - we haven't invited him since the first year, when my Aunt Laverne divorced him at the age of 76, largely because he tried to prevent her coming.

Unlike most family reunions, this one is very enjoyable. We tend to do things like host drag pageants and giant themed scavenger hunts (Mom and I are up to our ears in pirate themed stuff for the kids this year, including a full-sized homemade Jolly Rodger we're intending to run up the flagpole).

And the food is to die for. I'll be posting recipes when I get back.