Red Skys

Each time I look in the sky to see the redness that the run puts off as it sets I think of two things.

1. The little saying my dad taught me one time he was off to fish with my Uncle Dan in the early morning. Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red at morning sailor take warning. Ever since then when I see the sky red in the morning I think.."Oh Uncle Dan would not want to be out there now" and I repeat the saying. 

2. I think of my times with my family at the yearly corn roast. Each Labor Day for as long as I could remember I attended my dad's side of the families reunion. When we were little it was a time to hang out with our cousins and run around. When we got a little older it became a time to get back at Joe for starting a water fight the years prior. And in the last couple years at Aunt Dee and Uncle John's it was time to visit with each other and enjoy the special times we had remaining with our family. And each year for as long as I can remember the sky was always red as we drove home or as we stayed and chatted. This was the only time I could remember the sky was red. The sky being red make the summer nights at Aunt Dee's so much more special to me. And each time I left and saw how red the sky was, I thought, "Oh Uncle Dan would enjoy tomorrows weather on the water." 

When Aunt Dee passed away in January of 2008, and the yearly Labor Day corn roast got moved to her daughter Linda's for the year I knew it was going to be as special in continuing what Aunt Dee had started so many years before. And it was. But there was no red sky. (I do remember looking...I know weird.)

So why do I write about red skys tonight? Well when I was driving back from eating with my family, and the clouds from the day parted the sky shone the brightest red I had ever seen since I could remember. And it brought me back to those late summer nights pulling out of Aunt Dee's onto the dirt road with my sister asleep in the back and my dad at the wheel when I first noticed the red skys each year.

 Lindsay and Rachael. (Not the best pictures, but the red skys are there!)

 Lindsay, Corie and Rachael.

Rachael, Me, and Lindsay.

(Can you tell we LOVE Lindsay a lot?!?! And we miss her tons since she moved to WY!!)

Til Later- Appreciate the ones close to you like my family does each Labor Day weekend.