Relocation to LA and Upcoming Reunion

It's been a hectic couple of months, but my wife and I have successfully moved from our home in Georgia back to Louisiana. We left Lafayette in 1989, and have returned. For anyone associated with the Payne-Foster Reunion who would like to contact me, please use my new e-mail address. [steve-payne1@live.com]

Just a reminder (and prior to probable mail contact in the next month or so by our Secretary/Treasurer, Patsy Sharp) about the reunion at Hudson in October. This summer, in parts of Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, where I've been, it's been much hotter than normal. The long drought around the Hudson and north-central Louisiana area has demanded a lot of extra irrigation to keep at least some of my blackberry and blueberry plants living. It hasn't adversely affected my bee hives, though, and the six hives that I've had in a field in Baskin produced about 15 gallons of honey that I extracted last week. Like last year, we'll be offering a couple of jars of this honey as door prizes at the October reunion. Don't know what Patsy has in mind this year as another door prize. The real treat is obviously the food brought and shared at these reunions. Hope we'll see more folks at this reunion -- perhaps as a result of our effort after the last one to update addresses and phone numbers. If you know of a Payne-Foster descendant who hasn't been receiving Patsy's annual invitation and reminder and might like to attend, just let me know and I'll be sure to give that info to Patsy.