MD #43 (Are you watching Bill?)

The Johanson family is having their 43rd Annual Family Reunion and Bill said it would never last. We can go on forever with enthusiastic young people whom we indoctrinate at an early age. However there is one piece of data that is a little alarming-You and I are among the top 5 ancient ones. Of course, Uncle Ron is first followed by Larry, myself, you, then Nancy and we aren’t even old, are we?

Good thing we have 11 children to add to the ranks and even more if we count the Phoenix relatives who haven’t really experienced the joy of family togetherness.

Nancy did such a great job of adding all the details to the annual planning menu. I think she even used an Excel spreadsheet. Now she can be stuck on this task until she can no longer remember how to use a computer.

My grandsons are looking forward to playing in a bonfire, sleeping in a cabin, and dancing to Thriller. I think they will like the hiking also. So I will be there early and stay late.

Two days after MD Linda and I will be leaving for Switzerland with a stop in Norway and Sweden. Jessica has written to me and does have time to visit with us when we’re in Trondheim! I am excited to visit with my second cousins in Singsas where my parents visited in 1982. We return on June 24th, that is if the volcano in Iceland stops doing its thing. So much for someone's great idea to fly via Iceland for fun.

See you Friday. No one will recognize you this year.

Try to remember this name-Mr. Hauser.