WHERE TO LIVE?

Remember Nate, Lexi's beau?  His folks were here visiting this week, and we met up for lunch yesterday at The Leaning Pear.  They get an enthusiastic four thumbs up from John and me.

They do, however, have a dilemma that needs solving.  They have a daughter, son-in-law and two grand babies who live in Minnesota, and who never plan to leave it.  Then they have Nate, who lives in Austin, and never plans to leave it.  They happen to live in Tennessee, and 'though they like it a lot, what with all the road miles they are clocking up, trying to spend equal time with both kids, and trying to be there for all the important occasions with the grand kids, they think they may have to leave it.

Their solution is to live close-ish to one of the kids, so that there's only one they must travel to see.  Nate's dad says there's no way he's ever going to do those Minnesota winters again, so they decided to come give Texas a closer look.  Texas looks mighty appealing this time of year, especially to folks who are sick of snow and ice, and with the enthusiasm they showed when our waiter described the upcoming Barn Dance at Montesino Ranch, I'd say they were a perfect match for the Hill Country.  Just to be fair, though, we felt compelled to warn them about our summers, and about our water issues.

But, it got me to thinkin'.  What if one had a permanent residence down here, and somewhere to escape to that's an outdoorsman's paradise in summer...somewhere like, say, a wee little cabin in Minnesota?  Well, I ask you, what could be better than a set-up like that?