Feelin like a "fattie"

Helen's Casa Alde in downtown Buda is know for their breakfast tacos, so if you've never had a "fattie" drop in, they serve them until 1:00.
It's over filled with bacon, eggs, sausage, cheese and potatoes on a freshly made flour tortilla.
The salsa is nice and spicy too!
This place is the good kind of funky!

Home Improvements

After all the rain this summer we decided we might need some gutters on this old house.
We found some cool galvanized gutters to match the house and painted the under side of the porch with sky blue paint. You see it on a lot of Victoria houses. It's supposed to make the wasps think it's the sky so they won't nest on the ceiling.
So far it seems to be working. We need rain barrels next......

Rainy Summer

Last year we had a drought and this summer a flood! Seems like it's been raining everyday all summer.
Onion Creek is full of water ( and snakes, bugs and other things), but at least the gardens are doing great!

We'll hope for more hot and humid days for swimming before school starts.

Down trees :(

We came back from our vacation to a yard full of downed trees from last Sundays storm.
They said it was a storm with 70 mile an hour straight winds, but it looked like a small tornado came through Buda. Special Thanks go out to ALL our GREAT neighbors who looked out for us. They helped PEC get in and repair the fallen electrical lines, turned off the power and helped us clean up the mess. Here are the photos before we cleaned up. And Thanks to the City of Buda for providing free dumpsters for all the tree limbs! At least our yard has more light, we may even be able to grown some grass now.

Mela Fair!

If you've always wanted to travel to India but haven't been able to... Barsana Dham in Driftwood is the next best thing. We try and attend their annual Mela Indian Fair each spring for inspiration. They had elephant rides, children's activities, beautiful gardens and a brief introduction to Hinduism. This years event was also graced with the presence of their spiritual master Shree Kripaluji Maharaji. They also have year round yoga classes and peach picking in the summer......

Weiner Weekend

Buda survived another Weiner dog weekend. There was a great parade with weiners in costumes, bouncies, slides, funnel cakes and cotton candy for the kids.

With his eyes on the prize, Copper became the first 4 time winner and will retire after this year. Tyson came in second for the second time.
Maybe he'll win it next year!

Ninja Weiners!!!

This time it's the return of the teenage mutant ninja weiners! The Buda Lions Club is gearing up for their 10th annual event at Buda City Park the last weekend in April. Don't miss the pet parade at 9am!(and we always try and catch Elvis!)

Missing Main

We sure miss Modern on Main, Marla Coffee's mid century modern shop on South Main street in downtown Buda. She had fabulous furniture and jewelry and showcased local artists each month. Shannon Lowry and I were lucky enough to have a show there last year. We still love seeing the fresh paint job and modern landscaping but wish she was still here........
:(

Buda Grocery

Buda Grocery certainly smells funky but we love walking downtown and getting an ice cream and just sitting outside watching the world go by. It used to be Buda's main grocery store run by the Montague family and has great old wood floors and tin ceilings. We wish someone would renovate it and turn into a Health Food store. But we'd still like Mike to work there and always wave when we go by.

Coyote Junction

We loved our nature walks along Onion Creek with our dog Zula. It's a great place to let her off lease and run and swim in the creek. The kids named all the trails and places along the walk, playground ridge, bluebonnet trail and coyote junction. We named it that because we found bones and scat with fur. We knew there were coyotes but didn't think we were ever at risk during the day time. Last week we went out at 4:00 with the dog. She was staying with us and was coming back as we called. When she was gone a little longer than usual we called her, then heard these horrible sounds, like a bunch of wild kids screaming and realized that Zula must have found the coyotes. She was gone only a minute but it seemed much longer. J kept calling her from the top of the ridge, then finally saw Zula running toward him with 3 coyotes chasing after her. They are much larger than dogs, they looked like big German Sheperds with long furry tails. Zula ran to J and once the coyotes saw the humans, circled back into the brush. When we got home we realized Zula was pretty beat up, we took her to the South Austin Emergency hospital where they cleaned her up and gave her a couple staples in the neck and sent us home with pain killers and antibiotics.

We feel SO LUCKY and blessed that she made it out alive.

It just makes you realize how beautiful but dangerous these wild animals are and how close they live to all of us.

See this link: living with coyotes.

1898 Store

I love this funky old store in downtown Buda. It's only open on weekends but is full of great junk. You could spend a whole afternoon looking through relics from this old department store. Owned by artist Jeanette Chelf, and her husband Carl,a geologist who moved to Buda to start their own artist colony. The store is full of their artwork as well as boxes of great rocks to entertain the kids while you search for your treasures.

Clint's Cabin

Clint's Cabin was once on the grounds of the old Carrington Hotel on Main Street in downtown Buda. It is a small wooden cabin that served as a home for the servant of the Carrington Family. The cottage was probably built around the same time as the Hotel, and it was rumored that he was the only black allowed to live in the city limits.
The Cabin is gone now and will be relocated to the Old Stage Coach Property. It seems to have lost it's historical significance moved away from the Carrington House but at least it will be preserved.
This cool sign and funky addition were almost covered up with the construction of the new buildings but you can see them in the crack between Raby Roots and the Tea Room.