...Oregon, that is. Having now been awake for nearly 20 hours, I expect to be forgiven anything I may write that is grammatically or in any other way incorrect.
Here for the wedding of a step-nephew-by-marriage. the wedding is a home-made affair, but it will be quite grand, none the less. I thought that Chris and Amy's wedding last summer was amazing because of the many complicated layers of family involved, but that was NOTHING compared with this.
Gradually assembling at the home where the wedding will take place tomorrow evening were the groom's father and step-father,step grandfather and step grandmother, his mother's sister, stepbrother and stepsisters (from both parents sides) his grandfather and step-grandmother, and various cousins and step-cousins that I totally lost track of. I think half of the people came just to see how all of these folks, some of whom do not speak to one another, will get along.
It is beautiful here--low humidity, "high desert" climate, not-too-distant mountains. Within a quick walk of my husband's step-mother's home are bizarre sheep-goat things with up to 3 and 4 horns each, with some horns being incredibly...well...horney. And huge. They look as tho they were irradiated. Behind our motel is a large pen with llama(s).
And just for the heck of it I looked up and called the number of a guy I thought MIGHT be someone I knew briefly in 1971, who lived for a year in my Chicago neighborhood before returning to Portland, Oregon. The internet said that he now lives in Bend, of all places. He called back and actually remembered me. We'll meet up on Sunday. I will share with him a letter he wrote to me when we were both young and stupid. Luckily, he apparently does NOT have the one I wrote to him.
Coming to grips with my impending significant birthday, which I'll celebrate in advance, mid-life crisis style, by camping out and volunteering at a 3 day music festival in Virginia next week. Have I completely lost my mind? Not yet, but there's still time.
And luckily, we all have survived Mz. Smlph's wisdom tooth extraction this morning! Go, Mz. Smlph!
Now, I'm going to prepare to go to bed...
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