The table was ready and inviting us to sit around it.

My brother (plaid shirt) prayed a blessing on our meal and on my dad.

Facing the camera: Dick, my brother-in-law Elvin (formerly married to my late sister Janet), my sister Doris, and her husband Dale. (Elvin's wife Pauline had a meeting at church and could not join us this time.)

Other side of the table: my brother's wife Nancy, my brother Dick, my sister Mary Ellen, my stepmother Mary, and my dad.