Monthly Archives: August 2017
Heading Back Home . . .
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After goofing off the morning, Jan and I headed out about 1pm to meet up with my cousin’s Anna Jean and Marjorie, and Marjorie’s husband Walter.
We had a great time talking about the past, and gossiping about other family members who weren’t there. That’ll teach ‘em.
Anna Jean, Marjorie, and my mother were first cousins, all about the same age and grew up together. So they always have new stories about my mother.
And sometimes new photos too.
This one was taken in mid-1942 when my mother was an Army nurse stationed at Fort Benning, GA. This was before she was transferred to West Point.
This is another one from that time period.
We spent over four hours together and the time really flew by.
Anna Jean, Jan, Marjorie and Walter
We finally said our goodbyes to everyone and headed out. Jan was getting pretty hungry and thinking about chicken, so we decided to try the nearby Zaxby’s. We had tried one years ago, but neither of us remembered whether we liked it or not. So we took a chance.
And lucked out. Very good Chicken Strips and dipping sauce. Much like Raisin’ Cane’s.
Finishing up, we stopped off at my Aunt Virginia’s to say goodbye, before we headed by to the RV Park. Or at least to my Aunt and Uncle’s right next door.
I wanted to install LibreOffice on my Aunt’s laptop so she won’t have to buy MS Word, and also say our goodbyes here too.
Tomorrow we’ve got a 237 mile run down to the Benchmark RV Park in Meridian, MS, a very nice Passport America park.
Thought for the Day:
“The people have spoken — and now, they must be punished.” – Mayor Ed Koch of New York City after he lost a 1989 primary fight to David Dinkins.
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The Great American BBQ Tour . . .
I spent a good part of the morning working on the mobile site for the new website, trying to get everything to line up correctly.
The Godaddy Website Builder program automagically generates a mobile site on its own, but it needs to be tweaked, sometimes a little, and sometimes a lot. But I can’t really finish it up until I get the last website corrections from the client. So it’s hurry up and wait. As usual.
Later I put in a call to my cousin’s Marjorie and Anna Jean to set up a get-together tomorrow afternoon.
About 3:30 Jan and I headed down to Decatur to have dinner at Big Bob Gibson’s BBQ. Often listed as one of the top 5 BBQ places in the US, several walls are covered with their awards and certificates.
And even their red BBQ sauce and their white BBQ (for chicken and turkey) are award winners too.
Jan got the BBQ Chicken with Mac N Cheese and Green Beans,
(No photo. Hers came out blurry)
while I had the 2 meat Combo with Ribs, Pulled Pork, BBQ Beans, and Potato Salad.
Very, very good, making it very obvious why they’ve won so many awards.
And of course we had to finish up with some of their famous pie. Jan got the Coconut Cream,
while I got the Lemon Cream
This makes the 3rd installment on our Great American BBQ Tour, with one more to go – the Sonny’s BBQ in Brandon, MS, where we’ll stop for lunch on Saturday on our way home.
Coming back to Athens we drove around for a while checking out places we used to live.
This is the house my parents bought when we moved back from Colombia, South America in 1963. It was brand new then, and it still looks pretty good.
I attended the 10th grade at Athens High while we lived here, and then the next year I went off to Columbia Military Academy for my Junior and Senior years.
See, I did have hair back in the day.
Jan and I, and our son Chris, lived here for a while before we moved to our own house (a duplex) nearby.
Again, it still looks pretty good.
After we’d been here a while I got on with a DOD contractor and we moved to Beaufort, SC where I worked at the MCAS (Marine Corp Air Station) at Parris Island. I was working on avionics and radar systems on F-4B, C, D, & S Phantoms.
In some cases we were stripping out all the avionics, electronics, and the engines, testing everything, and then putting it all back together again.
Getting back to the park, we went next door to visit my Aunt Janice and Uncle Ed. Their son Wes owns the RV Park here. And they have a lot to do with Jan and I getting together.
Ed was a veterinarian, and he and Janice lived in Sanford, FL in 1967 where he had his practice. I came down to visit for a while, and saw an ad for a job over in Titusville at Florida Wonderland, a local amusement park there. And that’s where Jan and I met.
Tomorrow will wrap up our last full day here in Athens before we head home on Friday.
Thought for the Day:
‘Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur’an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth’
— Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR
(Council of American Islamic Relations)
San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
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