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Wimberley Book Fair

This book fair was not vigorously promoted in the newspaper, but we found it at the Wimberley Community Center.  Right off, we need to say that this was one of the best book fairs that we have attended in this area--or anywhere for that matter. There were about 50 authors present and had the presentation of their work well organized.  Most of the authors were middle age or older.  Many authors focused on fiction and about the same number on children's books.  There were a few who wrote "historical fiction", but not nearly as many as wrote pure fiction.  One author wrote small format travel guides of Texas.  These might be classified as non fiction, but except for this one author, there were no non fiction authors. We bought two books, one from author Bob Doerr and the other from Larry Lee Farmer. Larry was an interesting salesman for his four books on display.  He told of his wanderings along the hippie trail in the 1970s.  He said the hippie trail was just like a trail

Picnic in Flatonia

We stopped a the city café in the small town of Flatonia for many years, but this served buffet style café folded up and now does not exist.  So, we know Flatonia cafes and coffee shops.  Now, however, we headed for the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Picnic last Sunday.  We had been to this church picnic many years ago but so long ago that we had difficulty recalling the date. The church is located about 5 blocks south of I-10 on Highway 95.  We arrived not long after the 11 am starting to serve time, found a short line to buy tickets.  From those already eating, we decided they started serving earlier than the 11 am posted time. In line, we were just ahead of the local policeman, so we probed his mind to fill us in on the local police activity.  He said that about half their police action was due to locals, the other from those passing through on I-10. With all the nefarious activity that goes on in big cities, can you not imagine all the miscreants travelling on I-10 between Houston