Family…It’s All Relative

Getting together with my Dad’s siblings is never a dull experience. There is always someone up to mischief, usually my Aunt Dot.

Here she is up to no good, flirting with Buster Brown.

Finally she sneaks a kiss…

Ewww!! Not what she expected! This is usually what happens when we get together at my Dad’s Beer Joint. Dot will joke around and we all have a good laugh.

But this time when we got together, my Aunts showed up like this. Not sure how they pulled it off, but they even stood by the road in front of my Dad’s shop looking like this, holding their sign and looking like something out of Hee-Haw.

Then they got my Dad and his brothers to dress up. Somehow I think they got confused and thought it was Halloween and not the day before Easter! And yes, thanks to my Dad’s generous friends, they keep him supplied with an abundance of hot fashions from the best Goodwill stores in the valley.

And if that wasn’t enough, something possessed them to start singing. The Supremes they ain’t!

Not to be outdone by their sisters, the brothers decided to play their instruments. It was almost like some “Twilight Zone” version of “The Gong Show” except we didn’t have a gong so we couldn’t make them stop.

They did finally settle down and eat, but then someone had the bright idea to pass the hat with the hair around. My brother Steve actually looked good in the hat. I think it must have been the hair!

And Keith looked like he did when he had long hair when I met him years ago. His was not quite that long, but it was long.

The jury is still out on my Uncle Jack…

And my Uncle Bill? Well that’s pretty scary…

And like my Aunt Dot, my Uncle Jack usually has a few tricks up his sleeve. I think he rode this little pony last time he was here.

And none of this would be possible if it weren’t for my Dad and Sandra. They go out of their way to ensure we all have a “relatively” good time when we get together.