My Life: A Little of this.......... A Little of That: July 2019

It's time to hit the road again.....
On Friday (6/7) We head up to Luckenbach, Texas for the Thomas Michael Riley Music Fest. He puts on a great show and he has other great Texas Music artists there. We've gone the last few years now and have missed one in there. Of course it's in the hottest time of year but so far we've been lucky enough to find shade and a breeze. This year was just as hot but some of our usual breeze was blocked by the building but we stuck it out.
As we rolled down the road toward Fredericksburg we decided to stop for food. Usually when we travel we try to not eat anywhere that is a franchise or somewhere that we have in Houston/Bryan

area now. So we roll into a BBQ place that every time we pass it we always comment that we need to stop and try and so we did. We stopped at Brett's Backyard BBQ in Rockdale, TX. It was pretty darn good. They have live music on Friday's we've been told but we haven't checked that out yet.

We met up with our friends the Harper's at the Alstadt Brewery when we first rolled into Fredericksburg. They had ordered something to eat already but we just tried the beer. We were full of BBQ. This place was beautiful. I'm not a big beer drinker so it's hard for me to find something I like. This time I didn't find anything but I'll try again when we go back on another trip.

We head to the hotel to check in and then go to Luckenbach for some music.
While sitting there listening to the music

I felt like someone was watching me. Eeek there was!

This chicken was watching me very intently.
She didn't look so Friendly either.She finally got tired of watching me and moved on and then so did we. As it got later in the evening the sun was low enough in the trees and was hitting the table we were sitting at so we decided to move back a couple of tables. There was a couple sitting there but we asked if they minded we sat with them. We introduced ourselves and started talking. Margo and Smitty were a fun couple. All of a sudden I felt something next to my leg and to my surprise they had a big dog under there. He was big, good and so sweet. He just laid under the table until they were ready to leave. Before the night was over we meet a lot of new people Thanks to our long time friend Ross. He was in rare form. mmm could have been the beers. LOL. He started inviting people to join us at the table. It was funny. He left to get a beer and comes back going I just met Michael Jordan. We're looking at him like "You What?" Ross replies "yep I just invited Michael Jordan and his wife Tabitha over. I told him I was Dennis Rodman." He then explains that Michael Jordan is a 5' 11" white guy. LOL We had so much fun with all of our new friends. Ross was our top notch Social director.
We had so much fun that we all decided to meet up Saturday morning for Breakfast at Hilde's. David loves this place. Well okay so we all really like this place. Tim and Gigi our other long time friends waited to go there for breakfast till we got there. They knew that would be David's first choice of place to go. So Saturday (6-8) we all met up at Hilde's for an awesome breakfast.
Before everyone got there Sheryl gave Me & Gigi some cookies she made.

She sells her cookies on a page called Country Cottage.
Click on the name and go check them out.

Aren't they cute. Very tasty too.

We all made plans to find each other at the Music Festival again that night.

Left side: Me, Smitty, College friends Tim & Gigi and my husband David.
Right side: Margo, Tabitha, Michael, College friends Ross and Sheryl.

We split up and went our separate ways till that night. David, I, Ross and Sheryl went to Johnson City to go antique shopping. We got a surprise though.... The shops we went to shop at had either closed or changed their type of store. Two of them now had stuff that were made to look old but were made in Mexico or Japan. At least the one shop called Vintage still had a good selection of stuff to look at.

And the pottery and garden art shop still had fun stuff to look at.
he hasn't been able to lift his arm up very far and well I know this is mean but I told him he

looked like a T-Rex. So I had him stand by one. I should be ashamed but sorry it was funny.

Saw this little pot holder inside. Cute.

We hit all the different shops and after a few hours we all decided we'd head back to Fredericksburg.

David and I shopped at a shop outside Johnson City that sold wine barrel stuff. We came away with a split wine barrel. whew!

After our car was locked up and in the heat we could almost get drunk off the smell of wine in the car. LOL We're gonna fill them with plants on the front porch.
David actually planted a plant in each of them this weekend. When we watered them wine colored and smelling water came out the bottom.
We met up with Ross and Sheryl again at Hondo's for a bite to eat and a jalapeno margarita. Mmmm

We had to hurry up and get out to the music festival so we could hear a couple of our favs.. Davin James. along with Heather and Max Stallings. Of course TMR himself is one of our favs to listen too also. Here's snippet of Davin.

It was another HOT one. Actually I think it was hotter Saturday than Friday. But a cold beer helped cool us off.

Another late night listening to music and hanging with new friends and old friends. Tomorrow we have to head Home. We tried to meet up for breakfast again but it ended up just being Ross, Sheryl and Me and David. We went to the Sunset Grill. It's small but they pack in the people and food is yummy. We beat the crowd by about 10 minutes. Thank goodness.

After breakfast we took off and planned to make some other stops along the way. Our first stop was Yee Haw. They always had old stuff and cool furniture and pictures to look and buy. Again they changed the store merchandise to more clothing, jewelry and boots. While that's all fine and good but we were looking for old rustic stuff. The one good thing we saw was the landscape. Gave us ideas for our yard at the Rock'n K.

And we made our annual stop at Wildseed Farms. The hummingbirds were going crazy at the feeders. Caught a picture of one. It was so bright it was hard to capture a good pic. Then we saw the Desert Willow trees. I told David that was a tree that I wouldn't mind seeing outside my sewing window. It's kinda wispy so it wouldn't block my view.

Well we didn't buy one there. I don't think it would have fit in the 4 Runner but last weekend David found one and brought it home. Now to get the bed prepped and the tree planted. He just created another project. David is loaded down with projects he wants to finish. The Man refuses to stop to heal his shoulders.

We made a stop at a winery Tim told us about and the views. It was a good recommendation. It's a winery I need to take Pamela too when we go on our girls trip next April. It's called Narrow Path Winery. Sat on the patio and had glass of wine to enjoy the views. There was a good breeze so it wasn't too hot.

Our next stop was at the Pottery Ranch in Marble Falls. Huge place with lots of pots and fun stuff inside. No shade here and it was hot. It felt good when we went inside. Next stop was food. We weren't far from home and stopped at our new place to eat since moving to the farm called Julio's.

Tummies were full and Our last stop was home. The sunset was awesome that evening.