Ants on the Melon
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So I played tour guide over the weekend while my mom and her cousin came to visit me from Virginia. I took them to some of my favorite restaurants in San Antonio, including Rosario’s, Blue Star, Liberty Bar, Chris Madrid’s and Adelante.

On Saturday I took them to Boerne, Gruene and New Braunfels, and then they wanted to shop at the San Marcos outlet malls, so I dropped them off there and went back down to Gruene for a while.

I was able to catch about 5 minutes of the Carper, Floyd, Wilson show at Gruene Hall on Saturday, but it was fantastic. The band was made up of a stand-up bass player, a guitarist, and a Grisman-like mandolin player. While I was there they played “Friend of the Devil”, which is one of my favorite songs anyway, especially the Garcia and Grisman rendition. These guys did a terrific job as well, but that was the last song I was able to hear.

Oh, and I finally bought my tickets for this years Austin City Limits Music Festival that is coming up in September. I’m especially looking forward to seeing Mofro, The South Austin Jug Band, John Prine, and Wayne Hancock.

Here I am at Starbucks, it’s 10pm on a Monday night, and some hippies are just hanging out with a baby here. It won’t stop crying. Wonder why.