On Saturday afternoon I attended the 133rd annual reunion of the Cloud family at Veterans' Pavilion in the East Goshen Township Park. What a wonderful family tradition to maintain in these transitory days! There was a lavish spread of picnic food; I've noticed that the Clouds like to eat. I got there 45 minutes after the official start time and the macaroni and cheese was already gone.
Cloud athletes were tossing footballs, Frisbees and boomerangs in the field next to the pavilion, and Cloud kids (one in a Cloud Phillies jersey) whacked at a Minion piñata strung up from a tree branch (poor Stuart did not survive very long).
A brief business meeting followed the meal. The secretary, an older gentleman, read the minutes out loud, including a report about the Cloud Reunion Facebook page.
"Apparently it did not receive many hits," he read, then looked up and said, "Whatever that means." The same slate of officers agreed to serve for another year, and there was some discussion of where genealogy data, documents, photos and family contact information should be kept.
The guy sitting at the picnic table behind me had the perfect answer: "Why not store it in the cloud?"
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