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Lunch with Nelwyn & Marsha

Today I had lunch with two cousins (my dad’s cousin’s, their mom’s are twins – so they’re kinda like aunts).  We ate at Saltgrass Steakhouse.  I got there a bit early, 11:15, and waited for them, by 11:30 there was a parade of people, most driving oversized cars like wildmen, all (except for one 95 year old looking man) had exceptional guts.  I’m a bit over weight, but these guys had guts (and they weren’t having a special lunch with their aunts).  But, I guess that’s the definition of someone who eats at a steakhouse for lunch (apparently, regularly): overweight.

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John Henry Alley, b 1829

I went today, with my father, step-mother, and grandmother to a ceremony held by the Milam County Genealogical Society and the Milam County Historical Commission. It was in 5 separate graveyards, for 6 different confederate veterans.

The one we attended was in Pin Oak Cemetery near Gause and Milano. It included a confederate battle flag and singing of Dixie but there was not much grandiose bolstering of the Confederacy. And the main ceremony leader made a case for not forgetting history.

There was also a re-enactor dressed in frontier like clothes who brought a vintage cannon that was fired afterward.

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