Family get-togethers are generally celebrated with lots of food, lots of gab, and lots of sweaty kids running around using up all the energy they gained from all the sugar they’ve been eating. Labor Day down at the Siegels was not an exception to this rule. We had lots of great food, lots of interesting converstation, and a bunch of children coated in glistening perspiration who slept very well once we managed to get them home and showered and to bed.
But the best part of the day for me was spending some time with Uncle Bob working on his trailer.
Maybe it’s just the electrical geek in me, or maybe I have too many fond memories of working on those old Volkswagens with Dad, but it was a genuine thrill to pull and trace and reroute wires on the old trailer so the lights would work right – or mostly right. Part of the fun was investigating something I’d never touched before – a tractor-trailer rig – and part of it was actually being of some use to somebody, to be able to use the stuff I’ve learned over the years to help fix something. Most of the fun was from the satisfaction of getting the lights to work (almost) by the time we were done, hours later.
It was a little bit frustrating because at the very end of it, they still didn’t quite work they way we wanted them to work, but it was a lot closer than it had been when we started. And that was a bit of a reward. I do wish I had the time to go back down there and fix it up completely before Bob has to drive it somewhere, but that probably won’t happen. Too many things going on up here.
My hope is that this year the weather won’t prevent us from getting down there at Thanksgiving, like it has the last two years. It sure was fun being down there and hanging out with the family.
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