1980
Lake Weir
In August of 1980 we had
a family reunion on Lake Weir which was a memorable moment in
several ways. We all gathered on the south shore of Lake Weir which
held special memories for Mom, Dad and the Junior family for
directly across the lake on the north shore was where Grandpa Junior
had his roadside stand and house where Mom spent her high school
years attending Weirsdale High School. On that opposite shore was
similar dock which Mom and Dad would sit on in the evenings and
where Morris first kissed
Barbara. It was at that home on the other shore that Mom’s
sister Sue and Dad’s first cousin got married. One of things I
remembered most about the gathering was that we cooked oysters on a
piece of tin placed over an open fire. When the oysters started
steaming they would pop open and be ready to eat. Boy were they
good on a saltine cracker and a bit of tabasco sauce although I ate
to many of them and woke up in the middle of the night and had to
have some Alka Seltzer as a result. We gathered there, the Juniors
and the Mixson’s that summer for family, friendship, love and
memories of the past, Deeply Rooted memories.
