Monthly Archives: February 2012
Muffins and No Hot Wings . . .
Well, it rained all night and all morning again, but started to slack off in the early afternoon. At least tomorrow is supposed to be nice before we head out on Monday. Maybe Jan will finally have a chance to use that deer corn.
After our morning coffee and watching the rain pour down, Jan fixed us a lunch of our leftover Italian from Thursday night and we watched some more rain.
Then about 1 pm Jan and I drove over to Gina’s where Jan and Gina spent the afternoon making wonderful muffins and cupcakes, cranberry, lemon, lemon poppy seed, crystalized ginger, almonds, etc. They made a bunch so we’ll have some to freeze and take with us. I got to sample half of one (that’s all that Jan would share) and they were delicious
While they were busy in the kitchen, I spent the afternoon cleaning out and speeding up Gina’s computer. Then about 5 pm we headed over to Wimberley to have dinner at the Cypress Creek Café.
In the past when we’ve eaten here, I’ve always had the Devil’s Breath Hot Wings, made with Ghost Chilies.
And as the menu says, they make you sign a waiver before you can order them. But in this case, “Been there, done that”.
So I decided to try the other dish the Cypress Creek Café is know for – their Chicken Fried Steak and Chicken Fried Chicken. And I’m glad I tried it.
Really, really good.
The batter they use is great, really crispy and crunchy. A very, very good Chicken Fried Chicken.
After that great dinner, we drove back to Gina’s for while before heading back to the rig for the night.
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Thought for the Day:
Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? – St. Augustine
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Rainy Day in the Hill Country . . .
The drought certainly seems to be over in Texas. Well, at least in our small part of the Texas Hill Country. It started raining last night, and continued pretty much all day.
We headed over to Gina’s about 11:30 to meet up with her and her nephew Matt Jones. Gina wanted to get a new big screen TV and Matt had come over to help out with the purchase and setup.
Pretty quickly we headed into San Marcos with our first stop being lunch. Gina suggested we try Taste of China, a Chinese buffet right along I-35. Turned out to be pretty good, too. Good choice, Gina.
After lunch we drove right down the road to the local Wal-Mart so Gina could pick out her new big screen and a few other things as well.
She settled on a 55” Vizio, 1080P, 100,000 to 1 Contrast Ratio, with Internet and WiFi connections. In addition we also picked up a wall-mount kit as well.
Of course, by the time we were ready to head for home, the bottom dropped out in the rain department, and since we planned to take the TV home in the back of Matt’s pickup, this constituted a problem. But thinking ahead, Matt had also bought some cheap tarps and a roll of tape, so a little judicious wrapping took care of that problem.
Back at Gina’s, Matt and I worked on getting the TV up on the wall. And it went pretty smoothly, too. While I prepared the TV and fastened the brackets on the back, Matt screwed the wall mount to the studs using lag bolts. It isn’t coming down. Then all that was left was to lift the TV up and latch it to the wall mount.
Since Gina won’t have a cable connection to the new set for a couple of days, I went ahead and set up the WiFi connection for her so she can stream Netflix and Hulu movies on it in the meantime.
About 5:30, Matt headed home, and Jan, Gina, Gina’s daughter Sharelle, and I all headed over to Milagro’s, our favorite local Hill Country Tex-Mex place. You have to know to ask, but, besides the regular salsa, they also have a really hot habanero salsa. But it’s not just the hot part that I like, but it has such a wonderful smoky roasted taste.
Actually I think it’s my favorite part of eating there.
We got Gina and Sharelle home about 7:30, and then Jan and I drove back to the rig with it raining all the way. And it looks like it will be raining all day tomorrow, too.
But at least Sunday’s looking nice, so maybe Jan will have a chance to put out her deer corn finally.
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Thought for the Day:
“If you die in an elevator, be sure and push the UP button.” – Sam Levenson
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