Interesting Relatives

I don’t really have just one crazy relative. I have a bunch of different ones. They are mostly on my dad’s side of the family and they are mostly his step family. Although, I never think of them this way because I am so close with them. The interesting thing about my dad’s family is that he has two half brothers and a half sister, two step brothers and two step sisters, and only one real brother. Every year in August there is a family reunion on my grandparent’s property, which is called the hog roast because we roast a whole pig and eat it. It’s usually on the third or fourth Saturday in August and starts around 1 p.m. and the drinking of my grandpa, uncles, cousins, dad, and brothers starts way before that and doesn’t seem to end until late into the night. Somebody always seems to get hurt. One year a younger cousin of mine went swimming in this very dirty pond and he cut his foot on a shard of metal. He was taken to the hospital and had to get stitches. Later that day he returned to the hog roast and was back in the pond swimming.