5 on FRIDAY: Aug 2-4, 2013

It's that time again. Do you have your weekend plans worked out? Here's a little help...

1) Shakespeare is still alive at Winedale. Go see a performance - there are several to choose from!

2) Saturday AND Sunday you can go to Grape Stomps at Pleasant Hill Winery and Windy Winery! Only two more weekends left to squish those grapes! $25 for adults, $15 for kids, gets you a tour of the vineyard, a bucket of grapes to stomp and squish between your toes, and a t-shirt to personalize with your purple feet. Stay afterward and relax on the porch with a glass of delicious wine (or grape juice for the kids!).

3) "Sewing Samplers" at Barrington Living History Farm at Washington-on-the-Brazos on Saturday, 11am and 2pm. Initially samplers were examples of stitches and patterns women collected throughout their lives to be used to beautify their homes, but the reasons to sew samplers evolved and eventually they were used as educational tools for subjects from religious instruction to geography. Try your hand at an example of a sampler that Sarah Jones may have worked on when she lived at Barrington.

4) Support your local farmer in downtown Burton on Saturday 9am-noon at the train depot. You can also go to Discount Trees of Brenham along Hwy 36 North - a handful of farmers set up shop there to sell their produce to the locals. And on Sunday from 11-4 you can go to Home Sweet Farm Market in Downtown Brenham to get a variety of local products, from produce to honey to candles to grass fed beef and artisan cheese.

5) Pick lavender at Chappell Hill Lavender Farm on Saturday and Sunday or Lavande Lavender on Saturday. Both places offer fields of lavender to cut your own and a unique gift shop to buy those special lavender-infused gifts.

There's also plenty of live music options at Nathan's BBQ on Friday night, The Kenney Store at 8pm and The Boys Club & Saloon at 9pm on Saturday night.

We hope you have! See you SOON!  :-)