No more mishaps, Please.

Hill Country travels and adventures continues.
Our first stop was Blanco. There's this one Antique store we like to go to. We always find some cool things. We have never walked out empty handed and this time was no exception.  
Found an antique scale, 2 different kinds of thread spools and blue mason jar. 
 
I put the small diameter spools in the mason jar for display and the larger spool I wrap the left over binding strips and cuttings of the bigger spool until I'm ready to use them for a scrappy project.

Then we found an oxen harness that we'll hang somewhere in the house. 

We also found at other places on our trip a metal sign that David liked, a bird house that looks like water tank for outside, a small bowl with a barn and blue bonnets painted on it and the hat I have on in the next picture.  I think the bump on the head made me a little loopy and wide eyed. It kept the sun off my head and kept it warm when it was cold.Before we left Blanco we decided to buy a bottle of wine to take to the Airbnb we were heading to so we went into the bar next to the last shop we went into. 

Only we didn't leave right away because they had music. These 5 guys were in the back room at the bar just playing songs and telling stories. 

They were pretty good. We hung around for almost an hour listening and finally decided we needed to get down the road.  It started getting late and we hadn't had anything to eat since lunch so we walked over to 300 BBQ and took it with us to eat when we got to the place we were staying. Talk about deers! Wow they were everywhere and the big bucks were in the lead.   We finally got to the house in Kerrville and ate our yummy BBQ and the sides.  Not as good as David's BBQ but it was good. We sat up a while longer and watched TV for a while but soon decided to head to bed. The next day was gonna be a busy one and we needed our beauty sleep.  LOL 

Friday morning we got up and headed to Hilda's in Fredericksburg for a breakfast taco. This is one of David's favorite places to eat. It's a very busy place. The quantity, quality and pricing can't be beat. We didn't want to eat a big breakfast because we'd be meeting the Jackson's for lunch in a couple hours but we needed a little nourishment until then. 

We headed into town to head to the Pottery Ranch on the west end of town but first David stopped in town at the park so I could find somewhere to take some pictures of  quilt I just finished for The Jackson's new grand-daughter who was born in March I believe. 

This is the first time David has ever been with me to take pictures of the quilts I make. I put him to work placing the quilt and he made suggestions of locations. He's creative too.

The pattern is called Babyworld. I made a couple of changes. One was by accident. My steam a seam kept slipping so my elephant is leaping up for the butterflies plus I added 3 butterflies not just one.   Quilting was done by Betty Baker @ Shadywood Quilting. She used a Texas A&M motif. It also has the word Gig'em. I love this quilting.

Photo opt over and we headed toward the Pottery Ranch. We hadn't been there too long when Pam and Kevin call to find out where we are and they came on out to west end of town.  They were able to come up for the day and night to stay with us in the cute little Airbnb. It was a 2 bedroom 2 bath house. It was spacious and clean. The only complaint we had was the day bed they used as a couch in the living room. The real couch was in our bedroom. That needed to be swapped. A day bed is not comfortable as a couch. But everything else was just fine. We all found something we couldn't live without. LOL  
Our next stop was lunch at Alamo Springs Cafe out in the boonies. I did find a more direct route since the first time Pamela and I went a few years back. We thought Siri was taking us out in the hills to get us lost. LOL The route we used is way more direct as long as you don't count all the twists, turns and dips.
For an appetizer Kevin and Pam suggested Parmesan fried green beans. That was a new one for us. They were really good. They told us you can find them at HEB in the frozen food section. Of course the hamburgers are awesome, the fries and onion rings. There's plenty of food to split and share. In the evenings they have music for all to enjoy.  After our getting our tummies full we headed back to Fredericksburg to go to the Trade Days that happens on the 3rd Saturday each month.  
But first we made a stop at a place called Bankersmith that we'd been hearing about on the radio. They talking about the beer, food and music. 
We thought we'd stop for a quick beer but they didn't open until 4 darn it 

but we got to talk to the owners to find out about the place. The radio said this was a great place to go. We tried. Maybe next time. I took time to snap one more picture of the quilt

After our visit we said we'd try to come back  but for now we headed to the Trade Days.

Oh Trade days had lots and lots of stuff to look at. Some pretty some weird some scary. And some we decided to buy and take home. David found a G Harvey picture of bluebonnets for a great price and some sheets and quilt for our bedroom. We spent 2-3 hours there looking through all the stuff. We decided to go try some wine at Narrow Path Winery to finish off the afternoon. We got there just in time to have a drink and enjoy the views. They're prettier in the spring when everything is green and wild flowers. It was slightly chilly sitting outside but the wine warmed me up. LOL.

It's not getting dark so we decided we'd head back to Kerrville  via Comfort for a drink of moonshine.  David ordered us a Bloody shiner which is made with Jalapeno moonshine and Zing Zang with some dashes of tabasco. So good. We only stayed for one drink and off to find something to eat. It's been a while since we did that. LOL  Kevin thought he found us a new place to eat when we got back in Kerrville but the place was a little too pricey and it wasn't Mexican and that's what we were wanting. We at a our tried and true Mexican food restaurant Mi Sombrero and back to the house.  We broke out a bottle of wine and just hang out. Have to admit it didn't take us long to hit the bed.

Well Saturday will be another day but this post is long enough. Hope it wasn't too boring.

Until next blog post... "Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out."  Jodi Picoult