We started out the weekend by mowing our yards at Rustown on Friday evening. Nevermind that the front yard is mostly weeds and dirt - eventually we will do something about that. I raked the front mulch back into place (for the third time), swept the drive and sidewalk, cleared the red rocks area a bit up in back. One hour of outside time for me total and I was starting to feel the heat and humidity.
spoiler: this is not my yard
The next day we worked on a project at Highlands - filling in the driveway ruts with road fill, neither an easy nor pleasant task. But we "hard stopped" at noon and headed to 7 Creeks for some live music, cold wine, and a silly selfie.
We're gonna have to get better at this.
We headed home around 4 to let Teddy out to pee, and I have no memory of what else we did or ate, although I know I cooked dinner. I think we both passed out on the couch afterwards!
The next day it was all systems go for taking Darby on her first road trip.
We headed towards Fredericksberg, for a wine club pick-up. I had to pause and snap a pic just behind my chair while we were stopped for gas - seems weird to see our little home just behind us.
We had actually never been to Fiesta Winery in F'berg. It is much the same as the other locations, minus the view at Bend. Our server was a sweet young thing that didn't know squat about wine. It did not deter Hubby from making small talk, because he never met a stranger.
To her, we are decrepit old winos.
We do not care.
It would have been nice to take a pic of our lunch without having started eating it, but oh. well. They treated us to a fish taco, chicken avocado eggroll, and chips with pico which we enjoyed with their Tex Way Rose (Tannat and Viognier blend) It was all delightful, of course. Bonus: live music!
On the road again! One of our Darby plans: spend a day off 290 visiting a couple of state parks, including this one.
We were headed back towards Austin, enjoying the drive, and we remembered there is a brewery in Johnson City that we wanted to try. The beer was great, the barkeep very friendly, the live music fun. I'm sure we will stop in again sometime, but we were trying to get to a place in Dripping Springs by 4 p.m. to hear Spicy Loops play.
He had just LEFT so we had a cold one in the shade.
Whomp whomp. So much for his website's show schedule...
I know it looks cool, and green, and shady here but its probably 98 degrees out. However, we think it might be fun to stop by here again sometime, when we are in the area. They had cornhole and other yard games, along with lots of trees to sit under.
Last stop was 12 Fox for a burger. The place looks empty, but there were lots of folks up on the deck and a guy playing guitar on the stage just out of frame to the left. By then I was just too hot to think about snapping a photo, and we headed back to Austin around 6. Both of us a little dehydrated perhaps, and very over the heat. But it was fun to see how Darby handled the roads and get out into the country for a while. And we are already planning another jaunt in her on Sunday.
Gina
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