After spending the morning laying sod, I quit early to join some friends on an afternoon trip over to
Tara Winery, a nice little Texas winery off the highway between Eustance and Athens.
I've been wanting to visit this winery for some time and am reminded of it every time I drive to Athens and see the sign! I tried a couple of different glasses of wine, enjoyed a cheese platter and finally to partake in a little wine bottling activities. We all walked out with a complimentary bottle of
Texas Blanc du Bois, 2012, now chilling on the wine shelf in the refridge.
It's definitely worth a return visit.
East Texas Arboretum
After the wine tour, several of us stopped by the East Texas Arboretum to check out their Dream Garden.
I attended a
Master Gardner's seminar there about the Dream Garden and wanted my friends to see it. The Dream Garden is fill with a lot of different plantings that make for a nice place to be all year round with different bloomings at different times of the year. Since working on Round House and talking with my neighbor Mary who has a decent size vegetable garden, it's something I think I'd like to try myself. The perfect place would be on the two lots to the left of the house assuming I can buy them from the current owners
Recovery
By the time I got back, even though there was still a couple of hours of light left, with a couple of glasses of wine swilling about, there was no way I was going to spend it outside working. I called it a day and took a nap!
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