Saving Wine One Glass at a time

Well it's amazing how the world can change while you sleep. David texted us Friday morning (6/26) that Governor Abbott was shutting down bars and wineries today! No way! Well we are here and we'll make the best of it.  First thing on our agenda

was to go to Creations Quilt shop in Kerrville to find some fabric for a quilt for our friend Brittany who is about to have a baby girl in September. Her baby shower is in July but I'll be gone. Darn it! The shop is only open Tues-Friday from like 10-2. The shop had a sign-in board at the door and rules.  Only 8 people in the shop at a time and mask required, Not a problem. Besides the staff there was only 2 other ladies there so Yay.  We found most of the fabric we wanted. Still needed a basic black. Apparently black was a popular color used making mask there.

Like this cute cactus garden. Pamela was really tempted to get it but decided to to wait. She decided to check out Home Depot and places closer to home and check prices.  Sunflowers wer blooming all around the property. Sunflowers are so fun and cheery. Who doesn't like Sunflowers. I want some at the Rock'n K. 

Now it's time for lunch. 

Our favorite place to hit at least once during our stay is Cafe on the Ridge and it's open. The quality and the quantity is nothing to complain about. It doesn't matter what you get there's always plenty of it. After our meal we went out and looked around the nursery. Always something fun to look at. Normally we like to head straight into Fredericksburg to have lunch at the Peach Tree Cafe but unfortunately they have closed. They were always packed so we don't know why they closed their doors so we went to the Cafe on the Ridge.

  

After browsing we headed into Fredericksburg for some wine. 

Our first wine stop for today was Grape Creek Winery for a tasting. We had to wait for people to leave before we could go in. They were spacing us apart for the social distancing. They were able to be open for tastings because they have a restaurant. Apparently that's how some of the wineries were able to continue to operate but had to make sure they didn't have too many people in at one time.  They had a butterfly bush as you walked into the waiting area to get in to do a tasting that was loaded with butterflies. The lady that lead us in fanned the bush and they fluttered around and then settled back onto the bush. She laughed saying it was fun to see them take flight then settle back down.  It was pretty.

We have several of these bushes at the Rock'n K. I hope they attract this many butterflies.

    

On the same property is Heath Sparkling Wine and we had a reservation there for a tasting. Here they paired the wines with a small appetizer. Fun and Tasty. After the tasting we grabbed a glass and went outside to enjoy the sparkling wine and view.

Time flies when you're having fun and they were closing. We usually try to hit Fat Winery but they were closed for tastings and selling bottles curbside. We were trying some new places so didn't go buy any bottles this time. 

For dinner we went to a new place called Silver Creek there on main street in Fredericksburg. We got lucky and didn't have to wait and was seated right away. We were placed in a room with 4 tables but they had two blocked off. The couple that was in there with us got on their cell phone and turned on the speaker phone to have a conversation with their daughter who lived in NYC. The daughter had corona and so did a couple of her friends. Yep we heard the whole conversation. Really?! Why would you carry on a conversation like that at a restaurant. Rather annoying but I guess it's kinda the same as people talking loud at their table. There was just something about it.

It's crazy we're such party animals. We're back in the hotel by 8:30, safe and sound. One thing about going in June all of our driving is done in the daylight. In April it gets darker lots earlier.

Saturday (6/27) For lunch this day we went to Alamo Springs Cafe out in the hills. A little different this time. You placed your order outside and sat outside. No inside service. The menu was limited and the special was shrimp po-boy so that was my choice. Can't remember Pam's choices. Luckily we found a shady spot and it wasn't too hot with the breeze. All tables were placed more than 6' apart and when we got there it wasn't very crowded at all.  

Next we went down the road to Sisterdale, home of Sister Creek Winery. No tastings. They were only selling bottles curbside.  We hadn't been there in a while but 

we already knew what we wanted.

We were going to try another new Winery called Bingham Winery. It's part of the building where Hee Yaw Clothing & Decor. They didn't list on the website their Corona procedure so we stopped to find out. They only took reservations and no parties larger than 8. That's fine there's only 2 of us. LOL. We made our reservation for later and left. 

To waste some time we went back into Fredericksburg to go to One Quilt Place shop there. I needed one more piece of fabric to construct the quilt for Brittany's soon to be baby.  Who knew it would be so hard to find black fabric. YAY, found it and a blue bonnet fabric for another quilt I'm working on for my quest room.  We looked around at all the fabric and gadgets that it was time to think about heading back to Bingham.  Pamela has been a benefactor of my quilting so she has been more willing to stop at the shops when I see one. LOL   We got there about 15 minutes early so we went next door to look around and see if there is anything we can't live without. Pamela ran to the bathroom and I bought her a Christmas present. Ha that'll teach her to go to the bathroom. LOL A gift that she won't know what it is. She tends to pick out her own gifts. This is one gift she won't know about and I won't mention what I bought in case she reads this post. 

Anyway we went to our tasting and really enjoyed their wine. The folks on the other side of the room were rather entertaining. I think they had been drinking for a while then again maybe not. They were in a limo and celebrating their friend's birthday.  Good excuse to have fun and be silly.

We had time for one more winery and decided to hit 1851 Winery on our way back to Kerrville. But it's not 1851 any more, it's Slate Mill Winery. They are transitioning from 1851 to be totally Slate Mill. The owner came and talked with us and served us but his son started us off and made various suggestions. They were a lot of fun. We got to do our tastings plus a glass. It was past their closing time when we left but they had plenty of people outside enjoying their wine and the winery wasn't pushing them out. Wish we could have stayed longer but since I was the driver I could drink anymore. 

         

What a dorky face. hmmm 

We headed back to Kerrville for dinner at the Pint n Plow. They have the best pizza and beer. While sitting there Pamela felt something starring over her shoulder. LOL

We were able to sit in an area all by ourselves. Social Distancing at work. 

Sunday (6/28). So far we have been able to social distance, find wineries that we could either have a glass or tastings and still have fun. A little different but still we had fun. We packed up, checked out and headed to Cafe on the Ridge for breakfast. Our first time to eat breakfast there. Not disappointed.  It was really good. See this is what happens when you don't get your blog written in a timely manner you can't remember the little things like what you had for breakfast. Oh I just remembered having pancakes I think but don't remember what Pamela at. Maybe I should be better about taking pictures. LOL

We couldn't not make a quick pit stop at the James Avery Manufacturing Community afterwards. We love James Avery. I enjoyed just looking and spent no money this time.

Our trip was coming to an end and it was time to head home. Going back I took Pamela on the route that her dad I take after being in Fredericksburg. We went through Marble Falls and Georgetown.  Pamela was like oh cool there's a winery there we can stop at. Oh okay but we couldn't. It was closed but at least she got to go through Marble Falls.  

When we got to Georgetown we took a detour and went to the square. Well that's where I ended up when I turned off the road that lead to home.  Had never been. Really cute. I've been told that it's really pretty at Christmas and all kinds of activities going on.  Hope that's true for this coming Christmas. As we drove around the square we saw a few wineries and we stopped at Georgetown Winery. We had tried some of their wine at Aggieland Outfitters in College Station.  You could buy a glass and drink it outside. We found an open bench and drank a glass of wine then headed on down the road to home.

Our trip was over. I sure hope things are more back to normal come next April....

Until next blog post....“Happiness is mother and daughter time.” – Unknown