Saturdays with Sisters and Bro's in Law

Written on a legal pad before sleeping on Julia and Sam’s sofa last night:

Today was a very fun and very typical visiting home day for me, at least in the pattern of what I’ve tended to do when visiting home for the past few years: hang out and talk for hours with Mom and Dad, go out to eat with Mom and Dad or Julia and Sam (or all of the above), go over to Julia and Sam’s and hang out, watch movies with the fam, talk about and play music with Sam, and so on. Today Julia came down with her dogs to Mom and Dad’s house, we all went for a short walk with them in the greenbelt, and then I headed up north with Julia to hang out with her and Sam at their house. John (Sam’s close buddy who’s in training/study to be a Catholic priest) was around, too, which was fun. We all went out to eat, and later we hung around their house and just enjoyed being with. Sam also played me some really, really good recordings he’s made recently, using a drum I loaned him to accompany his guitar and voice stuff—one of the recordings, a David Gray cover, I think is seriously the best thing I can remember hearing that he’s recorded.

I love being home and spending time with the fam. It’s awesomeness.