And remember, my tin-plated friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
The Wizard of Oz to the Tin Woodman
Laura did tell Kris to say goodbye to her Uncle Norm.
At 11a Dad drove Bud and Miranda and I to the ocean while Mom and Joyce visited some antique stores. B & M wanted a little tan before they headed back home tomorrow, so they applied a little sunscreen and laid out on the beach, hoping to get an hour on each side. i do not lay out so i went in the ocean. The Ocean: where the water comes to you! i only waded in hip deep but got wet all the way up to my neck! then i walked along the beach gathering a few seashells while appreciating a few young bikini babes. i sat down to wait for bud and miranda to finish tanning, then the 3 of us took about a 2-mile walk up the beach then had to walk back while Dad stayed with our things. you'll notice i didn't say anything about me putting on sunscreen: i didn't. i figured i had already had some sun, and i could tell when i'd had enough. indeed, for the long walk up the beach i put back on my tee-shirt. all i can say is i'm glad i was wearing a ball cap the whole time, because, friends, i got fried! i feel like an idiot! my shoulders are burned bad, my lower legs are red, but especially my feet are baked, cuz they had already had a lot of sun through my sandals. plus i got sand under the sandal straps and with all the walking--i had walked a half mile looking for a restroom too--i wore a little hole in my ankle! so, sadly, as soon as we get back to civilization, i had to borrow dad's car so bud and i could go get some sunburn lotion. bud was burned some, and miranda was burned on places she had missed putting sunscreen, but i was in some pain!
In the afternoon we had a family meeting, just the 5 of us, so Dad could update our knowledge of their finances and their "estates." the last one of these i remember was in november, 1994, in Kris' house on Catalina Island, but they all say it had been updated since then. We sat around chatting till Natalie arrived, then had meatloaf--a family favorite, particularly of Bud's--for dinner, Joyce and Miranda returning from the Mall after we had begun. Natalie was still sick, but she didn't make a big deal of it as is her wont.
After dinner Joyce and Miranda decide to go back to the mall to look at dresses for a friend, Miranda having a large and varied wardrobe that she shares with friends.
Miranda, i must say, has matured consid- erably since the last time i spent any time with her, she's a confident, poised, and attractive 18-year-old who starts at John Brown University, a christian college in Arkansas, i think as a sophomore next fall in art. (In the pic, Joyce, Mom, and Bud are at a showing looking at a portrait Miranda drew of her father and a cousin.) Mom and I go with J & M to the mall, and go shopping separately but only get as far as payless where mom buys a pair of shoes. We go back to Dillard's to met J & M and shop for a shirt for Bud's 54th birthday on Saturday, and Mom finds a good deal and buys a shirt for me and Dad too. On the way home, Joyce lets me stop at Wal-Mart. When we get home, we find Bud and Dad watching a movie on tv, so i wait until 11p to be taken back to Kris's house for the night, where everyone's already in bed and i don't see anyone for a while.
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