Happy Easter 2010!

On Friday John and Gloria took us on a drive through the Hill Country of Texas. And since they like to take us to all the nice places, we had to visit "Uptown Luckenbach" and "Downtown Luckenbach".   At uptown Monre operates a mill and a little rock shop.  He has the fastest armadillo around!   He etches a picture of one on a beer bottle in about 10 seconds flat!  He has quite a yard of stuff! 

From there we went over to Fredericksburg and visited the Wildseed.  John wanted to see if they had a Passion Plant.  It was a very cute place.  They have garden stuff, a ladies boutique, some food, wine tasting and food stuffs to buy.   Then we had lunch at the Biergarten.  John and I tried the Schnitzil and it was good!

From there we headed back down to " Downtown Luckenbach Texas" the place Willie and Waylon Jennings wrote about in his song!  Downtown is a very interesting place with a  Population of 3!   A friend, Bob Zajonc, asked if that was the "bartender, the cook and the drunk"!  Yes, with a lot of folk visiting (and some of them drunk I'm sure)!  Several people brought their guitars and were serenading the crowd.  It's an interesting place started by Albert Luckenbach in 1849 as a trading post.  Since it's a real town with a real post office, they put in one parking meter some time ago which was stolen last month.  It has been replaced with a double headed meter.  They say "a large cement shoe and a steal dead man" will keep this one in town for a long time to come!

 
On Saturday John, once again, took us to a place you want to visit in the daylight only, Chris Madrid's whose famous for hamburgers!  I had a cheeseburger that had cheddar cheese melted all the way down my elbows!  It was really good.  The nachos were flat corn tortillas on the plate with smashed beans and cheese and they were really good too!

We decided we needed a walk after that big lunch so we headed further into San Antonio to the Pioneer Flour Mill to walk around the house and gardens. Those of you who read the blog regularly, know I LOVE SWEET CREAM PANCAKES!   C.H. Guenther and Sons has been in business since 1859.  They were originally in Fredericksburg then moved to San Antonio.  The mill is right on the river and they built their home there also on the river.  The historic house has been restored and holds their restaurant and store.  They have a very small museum there and they kept the parlor intact.  There is a room on the top floor that was having a private party so we don't know what was up there.  We bought some sweetcream pancake batter which is only sold there or on-line, but they do sell some other items like their biscuit batter is in Walmart and HEB here in Boerne Texas.   You can find their website under www.guentherhouse.com/Main.aspx  if you are interested.  It's a pretty home and you can sit in the garden and have dessert or they have breakfast and lunch on the patio of the restaurant which is next to the San Antonio River.

We got back to John and Gloria's so they could both beat us at Phase 10, a card game WE taught THEM last time we were here!

On the way home I had another adventure; I got pulled over by a Boerne Sheriff!  Our running lights were out again so he gave me a warning that we need to get it fixed.  We had brake and turn lights at least.  This is the problem that one Ford place wanted to charge us a bundle for.  We are going to have to get this problem fixed too!

Great adventures..."Ain't Life Grand!"