Forties Fabulous

We now return to the Hill Country: I don’t remember now where I found out about this place, but who could resist? Not my group of foodie friends, that’s for sure! So off we went to the Airport Diner. When they say “airport” they mean it—we had a view of the runway right outside our [...]

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Gruene River Grill

I own a timeshare in the Texas Hill Country and at least once a year they invite me down for a “meeting.” This is an opportunity (for me) to enjoy an extra weekend in one of my favorite parts of Texas and (for them) to try to sell me more stuff, which I’m not buying. [...]

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Memorial Day the Old-Fashioned Way

My charming hometown (well, it’s the town where my home is now) of McKinney, Texas does many things well. Yesterday I experienced another one of those things. About a week ago, signs popped up on our medians advertising a Memorial Day program in historic Pecan Grove Cemetery. It’s one of the oldest cemeteries in north [...]

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