Comments | kathrynt: I'm tinyfamous!

kathrynt

I'm tinyfamous!

Jul 26, 2007 09:16

I've just gotten back from visiting my grandmother and other extended family Yea Unto The Fifth and the Sixth Generations in Michigan. (A hundred years ago, two brothers bought a ton of property on the shores of Beautiful Crystal Lake (murderous psychopath not included) in Beulah, MI. All their descendants have places there now, either ( Read more... )

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solarbird July 26 2007, 16:20:00 UTC

yay! tinyfamous!

loree July 26 2007, 16:24:30 UTC

Okay, I have to ask... Oatmeal feud?

kathrynt July 26 2007, 16:36:59 UTC

Aheh ( ... )

ceo July 26 2007, 16:45:12 UTC

Wouldn't Canada have been a shorter trip?

kathrynt July 26 2007, 16:46:42 UTC

Dramatically. The reasons for choosing Mexico instead are unknown to me at this time.

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toad_hall July 26 2007, 16:37:59 UTC

that is cool!

but I am curious about the oatmeal feud.

kathrynt July 26 2007, 16:38:39 UTC

See response to loree.

toad_hall July 26 2007, 16:40:03 UTC

ha! that's awesome. I love your family stories.

kathrynt July 26 2007, 16:41:21 UTC

My family gives "eccentric" new meaning.

rmd July 26 2007, 16:56:05 UTC

okay, that's pretty cool right there.

apis_mellifera July 26 2007, 17:02:37 UTC

That's so very excellent.

I love that part of the state, I really do. My family's got deep roots in Traverse City, but we don't have an oatmeal feud, we just have a 30 year tradition of camping over Memorial Day weekend, EVEN IF THERE'S SNOW. And we're mostly tent campers, just to enhance the insanity.

And my grandmother told me a hysterical story about my grandfather making Marshall Field make his own damn breakfast 50-some-odd years ago because he was busy dealing with a flood in the restaurant's basement. I wonder if your family ever ate at my family's restaurant in Traverse City.