The Best Rained-On Plans

My poor mother has the worst luck planning big events.

In the summer of 2004, she planned a “family reunion” that primarily doubled as a “wedding reception” for Deb and I, since we expressly wanted to avoid such things.

That had to be moved to the parish house of the church at the last minute, due to substantial rain and gloom.  It also wasn’t something that could be rescheduled, as my cousin’s family was up from Texas.

Then there was Easter.

Last year the big Easter egg hunt never happened, if I recall correctly.  Or maybe it took almost until June.  Or maybe that was the year before.

This year it was delayed by rain two weeks.  Easy to reschedule, for “some people have long range plans for almost every weekend” values of easy, but not possible to move inside.

So now we’re coming up on 90 years since June 24, 1916, so were we going to have a big birthday party for my grandmother on the 18th or the 25th?  I was thinking the 18th, because at the time it was close enough to know it’d be perfect, if rather hot, weather, even though the weekend of the birthday might be more logical.  My mother decided on the 25th, which was technically more logical and gave more preparation time.

Predictably enough, here’s the weather (emphasis added):

So I have no idea what’s going to happen.  My first thought was “aw jeez, it’ll have to be postponed, but the next weekend is the holiday so that probably won’t work.” Then I remembered the parish house, but that depends on it not being used for anything else at the time.  Or some other, similar place.

The 2nd would actually work for me, if it’s postponed.  Originally I though I would be deploying new servers that weekend.  All of it.  Four non-stop days and hoping that was enough.  Which may be what it takes, not counting advance prep and testing or trial run work.  Since I had to wait for us to have a meeting about that and broader computer issues, it’ll have to be done on one of the other 3 or 4 day weekends later in July or August.  Oh wait… I just doubt it’ll work for enough people to go with it.  So yeah, it makes far more sense to find cover than to defer.  I’ll have to call my mother and see what she has in mind or if she’s even noticed the forecast.

What luck.

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