A Day for Partying!

It's all about the friends, family and party time here at Casa Cross today. We have about a dozen friends visiting, plus my parents, my gnomish brothers & sisters, my brother Kelly, my cousin Wendy (who is a witch), my niece Molly, assorted aunts & uncles and a lot of other folks.

The pig won't be coming out of the barbecue pit for a couple more hours, so everyone is just hanging out. Dad, Uncles Carl & Robert and a few other folks brought musical instruments and we are being serenaded with country & western, blues and rockabilly music.

Annie & Ben are preparing a lavish spread to accompany the pig. They have the day off tomorrow, even though house elves hate taking days off. They'll be at the big House Elf Hoedown over at Clear Lake.

From where I sit, I can see Grace, Wendy and a couple of other women talking about medicinal herbs...Spike Y Jones, Roscoe, Peter Hildreth and our neighbors Linda & Shanira discussing recent world events...Kelly (who is a zebra striped centaur) giving rides to squealing masses of children...Mary Jones, my Aunt Amy, Holly Hildreth, my mom and Lily all commenting on the music...and many others doing everything from dancing to playing boardgames to just sitting back with a cold beverage.

Tomorrow, all of our visitors will join Grace and I on the train to Mendocino. After a day and night there, we'll take another train down to San Francisco for a couple of days, then back here by Thursday afternoon.

And now Miranda Jones has asked me to dance with her, so I'm outta here for now.