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A wedding and a furlough

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Well, the clouds of uncertainty have at least temporarily blown away from Bragg Family South...we weathered the 2+week furlough of the federal government as well as could be expected, and though it was highly disruptive, we are catching up and moving on...  Not all of the last month since my last blog post have been as troubling as the last two weeks...  I was able to get out for a couple days during this period to volunteer on a couple digs, including the one below in a pine plantation in central Arkansas: We were also blessed to be able to join our former neighbor Liz (the state trooper who lived across the street from us for a couple years) and her fiance at their wedding west of Little Rock.  Prior to the afternoon ceremony, we spent a little time visiting nearby sites on the Ouachita National Forest, including the restored buildings of a former Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) site: We also visited a park at a nearby reservoir, and as you can see, it wa...