Tree rats & horror movies

 I was up at the lake house last weekend enjoying a lovely visit with a couple old teacher teammate friends from back in the day and gave the Christmas tree wrapped oak a trial run Friday night while we were hanging out on the back porch. 

Of course, that was AFTER I had to spend more than 30 minutes readjusting the lights, and then fixing them in place with more tacks. One of the ladies spied a big fat squirrel in the yard. No doubt it's one of the local tree rats raiding our oak for acorns and jacking up my holiday lights on a regular basis.

I took my teacher friends over to the Grand Central Cafe in Kingsland for a late lunch Saturday and we had a treat - one of the employees doing his best imitation of the Leatherface character from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie for us diners. Originally located in Round Rock where the then-dilapidated farmhouse (built circa 1910, see below) was used for filming, it was disassembled in 1998 and moved to the grounds of the Antler Inn in Kingsland to be restored by a master carpenter to its original condition. So it's just a stone's throw from our lake house and the food is absolutely delicious.