Birthday lunch.

We drove to Round Top (population 77 -- I love that!) and had lunch at Royer's Cafe today for my husband's birthday. Every Sunday is Fried Chicken Day at Royer's.... they start cooking that when they open and don't stop till they run out of chicken parts..... and they usually do because almost everyone orders the chicken on Sundays. They fry up so much chicken on Sundays that they don't serve fries-- they have to use all their fryers for the chicken parts.

Royer's is also known for their homemade pies, and instead of birthday cake here, we had apple pie at the cafe. It's a nice ride from here to there... all winding country roads going up, down, and around all the hills. Round Top is also the home of the Festival Institute, the acoustically correct music theatre.... beautiful wood carving throughout the interior, and the surrounding grounds are just magical, with all sorts of out-buildings and castle-like structures. After lunch, we drove through the Festival grounds and parked the car near the little chapel. The doors of the chapel were locked, but we walked all around the outside and found hidden waterfalls and stone tables and benches, and quiet little courtyards with medieval-looking statues keeping guard.

Cold day today..... the high temperature was about 58 degrees this afternoon. Bah humbug to that, after the nearly 80-degrees of the other day. I hate these cold snaps rushing down here from the north. We get so spoiled here with warm weather that when the thermometer doesn't climb to our usual winter temperature of 75 or so, we are downright freezing and it's so hard to get warm.

However..... that sounds like a complaint, and I had promised after last year's ridiculously frigid winter not to complain about the weather anymore. Besides that, I have to remember that great quote... every moment is a miracle. This is a moment... so it must be a miracle.