Head Tale

Earlier this summer in my post about a cousin that passed away, I mentioned how I was fortunate to know the many members of the Hammond side of the family quite well because I grew up in the same town as the matriarch of our family.

For a variety of reasons, I never got to know my mom’s side of the family quite as well (mainly since many of that side of the family – including my grandparents – lived in BC so we simply didn’t see them that often.)

But we had a family reunion at Kenosee Lake a few years back and it was a great chance to reconnect with many relatives on my mom’s side including one family I did know a bit better – the Bobby and Joyce Peet family who lived across the bridge from my grandparents in Kelowna.

Great Uncle Bobby passed away a few years ago and I just heard this week that Great Aunt Joyce passed away at the ripe old age of 86. (I always think about how long-lived the Hammond side of the family is but the Peet side is pretty robust too!)

(On a side note, as I sit and whimper with my broken wrist, I’ll point out that Bobby and Joyce’s daughter, DJ, who is second from right in the back row, attended the reunion with her hand in a splint and bandages as she’d recently caught it in an auger and though her hand was ripped up pretty bad, she was extremely fortunate that the leather gloves she was wearing jammed the auger and prevented much worse damage!)