Last weekend we had to pick the girls up from Trinity University (which is in San Antonio) at 7 AM on Saturday morning. 7 AM folks. Seeing as how San Antonio is a good 3.5 hours from our lovely Houston abode, we made plans to spend Friday night a bit closer to our goal. Debbie's brother Matt and his wife Maria live just outside of San Antonio in Helotes and offered up some mighty fine accomodations. We accepted. Without hesitation.
Friday night we took the young 'uns to Floore Country Store in Helotes, the place allegedly where Willie Nelson got his start. I, for one, LOVE Willie Nelson. I love the crackly tenor of his voice. I love his tragic songs. Part of my love might be attributed to the fact that I grew up listening to Willie, but at least part of my love lives within my very own Texas-loyal soul. I do believe I have tortured more than one friend by FORCING them to listen to Willie in my car. I like to educate my friends like that.
Anyway, Floore's still features live music and we enjoyed ourselves immensely. Willie is scheduled to make an appearance in the Fall and I'm going to do my best to make my way back to him. [Picture me running through a field of Daisy's to Willie (a very old dude).]
I get a little choked up when I see the Texas flag. I'm telling you...Texas may be hot...but it engenders an almost unexplainable loyalty...especially among the natives. Texas! Our Texas!
And best of all? I got THIS at an antique store in town.
It's a metal cake keeper! While in my imagination this cake keeper lives in the Beav's home in the 50s, it actually has a trademark date on it of 1981. I'm a child of the 80s and I don't remember ever seeing cake keepers like this. Any cake keeper historians out there?
I've got a cool white metal cake keeper and I almost bought a mustard colored one at the Brimfield Fair (in Mass.) yesterday. I love the one you got--that's a find!
Posted by: ellen patton | July 17, 2011 at 08:59 PM