Reunion!

To say that we all had a great time is truly an understatement! We had a blast! After a good while of feasting on the fatted calf as well as chewing the fat (there has got to be a moral to that story), Jimmy Sanders and I fired up a couple of amps and grabbed a couple of "axes". That's when the hoot started!

We knew that being "mic shy" didn't run in our family and that proved to be true today! We kicked off with "I'll Fly Away". And, you could hardly believe how the younger folks took to the bandstand! We had Elijah , 6, give us a great rendition of "You Are My Sunshine". Then, 7 year old Ellery and 10 year old Skye gave us great a Christmas song, "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer".  Robert Yarbrough chimed in as we sang a Johnny Cash tune, "I Walk The Line" (did I sound like Luther Perkins at all?). After that, Leslie Bua, daughter, Stephanie, and her granddaughters, Havvie and Ellery, got onboard the music bus and started singing! It was fun, fun, fun! We even knocked out a Bob Dylan ditty, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". We forgot to tell the girls that Jimmy and I hadn't played that song in ....oh....bunches of years so we were a bit rusty! But, we just gritted our teeth and it all came back to us in short order. That was great but you should have heard Les and Steph tearing up "La Bamba"! They even had Havvie dancin' in the aisles! HAW!

Only too soon it seemed, the ladies cleaned up, folded the table clothes, and we all hugged each others' necks and called it a day. Everyone was tired and full and ready for a nap. It was an excellent time and we're all looking forward to doing it again when the rest of the clan can make it. All of wished that the rest of the kith and kin could have been there as we sure do miss them! It has been a really long time since we've seen some of them! We'll be sure to have three or even four months notice so that things will work out if at all possible.

I haven't done the math but I'm almost sure that the last reunion was in the late 1990's and was held at the Porterville Garden Apartments where I was manager. Billie Jean was still living there at the time.

Here are some quick shots of the place. If anyone wants to e-mail some pics to me, I'll be glad to add them! Many thanks to Rick and Les for at least 40 of the best shots!

 

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