Ang's Journal

Alan & I had an amazing date night last night. It was an Apology Date Night, because on Tuesday I invited my parents over for dinner & apparently didn't remember to tell Alan - until about an hour before they showed up. -100 Wife Points at least.

So I took him out for a fancy dinner at Eureka Station on Notorious Blair Street in Silverton. Every single thing we ate or drank was delicious.



Our waitress was a gem! She caught us up on all the local gossip, including a recent controversy in town when a long-time resident named Nancy Brockman died, was buried in the historic Silverton cemetery - & had a red UK-style phone booth installed as her grave marker. That settled our after-dinner plans! We headed up to the cemetery to check out the phone booth. Indeed, we could see the phone booth on the cemetery hillside above town from our dinner table. The red color really does catch the eye!



We wandered around the cemetery for a while, reading gravestones until it was too dark to see. The burials feature a high proportion of younger men, many immigrants, many killed in the mines.



It was a beautiful night & a truly peaceful place. Not a bad spot to choose for your eternal rest.



We drove home & let the dogs out when we arrived, walking with them down to the end of the driveway. There was no moon & very clear skies, so I took one last photo - the Milky Way over our house.



It was a very good evening.

This one won't be of interest to many of my LJ-friends, but you still ought to check it out. Paul Burka is the senior executive editor of Texas Monthly magazine (which, incidently, is a fantastic magazine). His BurkaBlog covers Texas politics from a deeply experienced, liberal perspective.

The best part, though, is that sometimes other informed people comment intelligently on his posts! For instance, he recently posted about the possibility that Texas will soon issue a license plate with the Confederate flag on it. Issuing license plates (somehow) falls under the purview of the General Land Office in Texas, & one of the commenters on the post was the GLO Commissioner himself! Other posters had informed comments regarding Civil War history. Of course, you get a selection of idiotic commenters from the left & the right, but.... there is some intelligent discussion.

More of this please, internets!