Daren Wang writes on Facebook…

Whenever you get a bunch of Decaturites in a room, they’ll eventually say “You know what this town needs? It needs an XXXXXX!”

Well, there are some folks bringing something very much like XXXXXX to town. I’m not saying what it is, but there’s an announcement coming in the next week about Decatur’s new cool c…ultural entity.

In the meantime, put November 20th on your calendar. Trust me on this.

Such a tease.

Kids been clamoring for both a moon jump AND a haunted house?

Teach and Louis sent in a link to a WSB article reporting that a mom was arrested at the Decatur Library last Monday after being asked to leave because her toddler was being to loud.  The library’s director told WSB that Serita Foster became “boisterous” after being asked to leave by library security and that is why police were called.

There’s a video segment featuring an interview with Ms. Foster at the other end of the link.

Oh my poor waistline.

The Blissful Glutton reports that the Fox. Brothers, Jonathan Fox and brother Justin are opening “The Big Tex Cantina” in the old Natalie’s Fish House and Paris space in downtown Decatur.

According to Blissful, Big Tex will allow the Bros. “more room to play around with the Texican menu”…

Look for items such as chicken fried steak, homemade corn dogs, stacked enchiladas (their mom’s recipe), tacos, chalupas and more. The Cantina will be open for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late-night. Jonathan maintains the restaurant will still be family friendly despite having a fully-stocked bar and a pool room complete with darts.

She reports a late Winter, early Spring opening.

P.S.  I received a report that Natalie’s had closed a few weeks back, but was gun-shy to report it since it didn’t actually close the last time it…umm…closed.  So I was trying to get confirmation first, which never came.  So I guess this is it!

This made my day.

Yesterday morning, Anne wrote me an email asking for a status update about a dog, Clara, who had possibly hit by a car on Tuesday morning in Oakhurst.  She had personally looked for the dog that very morning down by the creek behind her house, and was curious of any progress that had been made.  Unfortunately, I hadn’t heard anything.

Then that very same afternoon Anne and her son found the missing pup in their shed!  Talk about kismet!

I’m happy to report that Clara has since been reunited with her owner thanks to the vigilance of neighbors.