Weekend re-cap - Dig Pub, Highlands R&R

On Saturday, Hubby repaired the laundry room door and putseyed, while I got a few minor chores done.  But it was threatening rain and we had no intention of hanging out around the house all day.  We both had a rather yucky week, so we loaded up the truck and hit the road.

First stop was The Dig Pub in Cedar Park for a dark beer and some apps - onion strings and scotch eggs.

 

I've heard of scotch eggs but I guess I've never had them - boiled eggs coated with sausage and crumbs and deep fried.  They served theirs with grainy sweet mustard...

Oh, man they were good.  We have a Fry Baby now so we need to learn to make these.

This was a nice quiet place on a Saturday and the waiter was friendly and knowledgeable about the beers - we will definitely return!  From there we headed to TNL for a glass of wine on the patio. (a freebie glass as a perk of our wine club membership)

 

 Along the way, we detoured to get a look at Oatmeal - a tiny community just outside of Bertram.  (pop. 20.  People.  As in twenty people.)  Hubby has been wanting to go to the Oatmeal Festival forever.  I think this will be the year we do, as he recently met someone who lives there.

 This heartwarming scene was located just outside of someone's gate on what looks to be a ranch.  Oatmeal gives Austin a run for it's money in the "keeping it weird" thing.

After the winery, we built a fire and sat in our chairs relaxing and watching the smoke waft across the yard.  So peaceful...And once it burned down a bit, we grilled a freezer pizza over it.  {Smoked pizza is wonderful!}  The next day, we had some sausage biscuits in the freezer we had forgotten about, with a couple of mandarin orange cups, so breakfast was thrifty.  We spent the day staying close to Highlands, eating chicken salad sammies for lunch, then taking our chairs to one of the meadows to sit and enjoy some raspberry wine we found in the barn's fridge.   We are trying to keep our weekends a bit lower budget for a while so this was a relaxing and low cost one ($40ish), with not much driving and eating out.  Just our speed.