So Chris & Magnolia are off to go tubing down the river with Gregg & Cathy. Baby boy & I are staying home as he's too little to spend a couple hours in an innertube floating lazily in the sunshine (especially given that it's July in Florida and REALLY hot today).
Gregg & Cathy are visiting for the weekend. Gregg got a job as a bio professor at a little university in Missouri and will be moving away in 2 weeks. We had a party last night at our house so his G'ville friends could hang out before he hit the road. Hopefully he'll be able to come back and visit a lot as we'll really miss him.
There was a friend of a friend of Gregg's that came last night and was seemingly FASCINATED that I grew up in Starke and enjoyed the experience. He's working there now, but relatively recently moved from a long stint spent teaching in China. Having apparently never lived in a small Southern town (or a small town, period), he is experiencing a bit of culture shock. Granted, he had a few beers in his system (at least), but he couldn't stop talking about how everybody knows everybody and if one were perchance to pass out in the parking lot of a local restaurant after drinking copious amounts of margaritas, EVERYONE would know by the next morning. Especially if you're theoretically old enough to know better. Hmmm, go figure.
Starke is a small, Southern town. You either love them or you don't. You just have to figure out which camp you're in.
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