Weekend re-cap: painting, breweries, wineries, exploring, relaxing

Its been awhile since I talked about what we did on the weekend. This last weekend we actually got to explore before returning to the Zombie Corona Apocalypse!

 I got up early to finish up some small projects around the house, including painting the green accent wall in the hall and hanging the abstract art.  Goodbye family portrait collage wall!  Maybe when I am all done with touch ups, I will post the afters of this project (hopefully in better light).

We made a hard stop at 11:30 and headed towards Marble Falls, stopping at Chicken Express.  Weekends are for fried things! STW was releasing their Honey Gold Strong Ale, so we enjoyed one (or two) while enjoying our shared chicken lunch.  It might look like no one else was there, but they were actually doing a good business.  The skies were grey, but the beer and fried chicken were delightful, as were the tunes playing on the patio.  People looked relaxed. 

 After some time there, we headed to Highlands to cook dinner and enjoy the firepit.  The bluebonnets are ramping up so I hope to get some good pics of those soon.  The next morning we hung the owl house and putseyed around a bit before heading to Blanco for the pick-up party at Esperanza. (which I have zero pics of!)  We enjoyed meeting some new folks and had a bottle of Tannat with our empanada lunch.  'Twas delish!  It was early (2ish) so we headed out to explore...

 ...and landed in Dripping Springs where we visited two new-to-us wineries and also this pretty and peaceful sculpture garden.  One of the wineries shares some space with this carved stone company and they have this winding path that you can stroll with your glass of wine.

 

A very peaceful setting and the wines were all wonderful - I will write about them on the Texas Wine Lover website.

 We split a tasting at each place, and since I was mainly doing some fact-finding about the wineries, we will come back at a later date to just sit and sip.  So we headed a little further down the country road we were on and found this place:

12 Fox Beer Co.  It wasn't busy in the least - maybe half a dozen other people besides us, so social distancing was not a problem.  Bonus: there were no kids running around, which is almost always the case at these breweries out here.  In fact, they had an adult playscape with a sign that said "we're beermakers, not babysitters". (they are actually dog and kid-friendly)

 I love this place!  The beer was really good, the place is clean, and the guy pouring our beer was one of the owners, and very nice.  

I can imagine this place when the skies are not so gloomy, being a great place to hang out.  They even had a pizza food truck (hopefully all the food trucks will not die out).  They even sell cider and wine for non-beer drinkers.

 We played Giant Jenga and cards for a while.  Then reluctantly headed home into Monday, where everything seems to have changed:  Hubby is working from home, Bubbie is home from college, and I am in the trenches at the hospital.  Its only Wednesday but this has been a long week already and we are taking it here one day at a time, looking forward to the next weekend.

Gina