Fall Gathering of the Nuts Party

by chris cunningham

After co-opting the name of a friends party we shifted the annual September get together to a “Fall Gathering of the Nuts”. The usuals were there, and my sister got to fly in this time. Also Liza got to partake but unfortunately I have to take her to the airport tomorrow. We *thought* it was supposed to be her next to last day here (more coming up) and everyone loved meeting her.

Let’s see, there was some carne asada, fruits, and drinks, etc. There were candy canes hidden in the avocado grove for the kids to seek out, and for the adults to point them out. There was still one missing at the end of the day, which my dad found about a month later. It didn’t really rain, but a double rainbow came out and lit up the sky. wow, very nice. We also got some updated pictures of all the cousins together for the first time in years.

Soooooo… later that night Liza and I got back to my house and started looking at her flights and realized she was supposed to be on her plane 3 hours ago! Ack! What? Totally screwed up which day she was leaving! Oh no! She got on the phone with the airline and long story short we’ll just have to do our best with getting her on the new plane tomorrow. Argh, stress before leaving! That’s no good. The next day and lots of phone calls she got her new flight, later in the day, and I saw her off after three weeks of some lovely times.

So sad to have her go but at the end of the week I leave for England! Not much time to wait to see her, so I’ll get the bills paid this week, do some laundry, get packed, and then for the first part of the journey I’m taking Mom on her first trip to the England. She’ll be quite pleased as everything will be new and *amazing*!