[Southpaw]

Its been a few years. All grandparents have passed and still have relatives in that area and some family land but nothing big and uncles and cousins that still live in that area sort of take it on. Everyone is spread out and I live in Atlanta, but deep down that is home since born there and those are my roots. Both sides of family date back in that area from early to mid 1800's that much I know and I think some on maternal side go back to 1700's. Lord I could go on and on about stories in that area. As a kid spent a lot time there around Xmas so we would go bang around hunting quail mostly in the Richmond area on mother's side of family that had a couple of hundred acre farm that attached to other relatives and close friends of family property. Those days hunting around there are sadly over.

Go drink a cold Ale8 for me and shoot that gun, if you happen to mix with it with a little bourbon afterward, even better, can't get more kentucky then that. BTW I was at the Greenbrier resort a year or so ago and they claimed to be place that invented the mint julep and won't argue it but I still have my wild mint growing that I got from the farm along the creek from Richmond, I think it makes the best julep. I don't care what bourbon you prefer in a julep but if you don't use the right mint as intended, it's just not right.