The Rambling Gypsy

Small Town Success: From Karaoke Dreams to Texas Hospitality

• The Rambling Gypsy • Season 4 • Episode 4

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The Texas Hill Country has a certain magic that can transform retirement plans into entrepreneurial adventures. Just ask Danielle, who along with her husband Jason, moved to Fredericksburg intending to slow down, only to find themselves building a mini-empire of beloved local businesses.

Sitting in the rustic beauty of The Barn at Rock House—a historic property dating back to 1911 with original wood preserved throughout—Tiffany Foy kicks off the Rambling Gypsy podcast's SPF 90 "Wondering Series" tour with a revealing conversation about small business resilience in the face of corporate expansion.

"Main Street is only business owners. They don't let corporate America in on Main Street," Danielle explains, touching on what makes Fredericksburg special. This dedication to preserving local character becomes even more impressive when you learn that The Velvet Lounge—their karaoke bar and now pizza spot—opened quite literally the day COVID lockdowns began.

From blowing up balloons to make empty spaces look occupied to navigating the unexpected boom in bachelorette parties during a time when actual weddings were postponed, Danielle shares the creative pivots that kept their dreams alive. The conversation weaves through their expansion from karaoke bar to adding a buzzworthy pizza kitchen featuring a cauliflower crust with hot honey that's generating serious word-of-mouth.

The 20-acre Barn at Rock House property, just one mile from Main Street, now serves as a sports bar, event venue, and B&B with accommodations for up to 22 people. There's a tangible sense of reverence as they discuss the property's heritage house and plans for adding golf simulators while preserving the historical integrity.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, a fan of Texas Hill Country, or just appreciate stories of intuition-led business decisions, this candid conversation offers a genuine glimpse into the heart of small-town business ownership. Subscribe now and join us as we continue exploring the treasures of small-town Texas on our wandering tour!

The Rambling Gypsy podcast is a behind-the-scenes look at the lives of real Texans doing real sh*t. We're pulling back the curtains on our daily lives - and you're invited to laugh and learn along with us.

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Speaker 1:

I put a blessing on it to real. That's the metaphoric. We just put the I in iconic, buzzing like I'm electronic. Ah yeah, I put a blessing on it. See me dripping in it 24-7 on it. I'm just being honest. Ah, holy water dripping, dripping from my neck to my crap song two-stepping on it live.

Speaker 2:

Hey everybody, welcome to the Ramblin' Gypsy podcast. My name is Tiffany Foy and we are kicking off our SPF 90 tour in Fredericksburg, texas. We started a little pregame. The Wondering Series is kind of what we're calling this, because I do wonder and I do get real lost. But we are at the barn at Rock House and this is Danielle. We have been friends for a minute. We have yes and you come down to New Braunfels and hang out at our resort.

Speaker 2:

I love it you guys know I have Gypsy River Resort. Really cool. You bring your team members, your squad and y'all float the glide we do yes, yeah.

Speaker 2:

So business owner to business owner, small town to small town, hill country we're kind of hill country, I believe you are. We're kind of Hill Country in New Braunfels, I believe you are. We're country in New Braunfels. I don't know about the hills, but anywho, let's talk about you, your entrepreneurship. Okay, you have multiple businesses here in Fredericksburg. It is really important to me and this is what started the tour how we wanted to put this all together was keeping small businesses alive in our small little towns. Corporations are coming in and you obviously are extremely hands-on I am very hands on with our businesses. I know it's very important to you guys. I've talked to so many people that I know in Fredericksburg and, of course, we're born and raised local in New Braunfels. Yes, growth is inevitable, but how did you get into the Fredericksburg area? Let's start there and let's go.

Speaker 3:

Let me preface with Jason and I met at karaoke in Midland a solid 20-something years ago.

Speaker 2:

We'll tag on that in a little bit.

Speaker 3:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Hometown, hometown boy over there, yes, you're both oil and gas.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I started a trucking company and he had a full consulting oil and gas firm where he managed rigs. So we did that for years and then we wanted to retire and I've always wanted to live in fredericksburg and we landed here to retire honestly and thought we don't want to do this. So the next best thing was karaoke and we loved it. We started that and then fredericksburg needed something for the gents, yes, and so that's where we are with the Barnett Rock House. Okay, we needed. We were sports bar. It's the only sports bar in Fred. Locals really love this place because it's convenient, it's not as busy, not as touristy, and it's on 20 beautiful acres, literally less than a mile outside of town Nice, so you guys met at karaoke, which I think is really epic.

Speaker 2:

Out of town Nice, so you guys met at karaoke, which I think is really epic, and you have the Velvet Lounge we do, which is on Main Street.

Speaker 3:

You guys started that when we started that the day. Well, we opened the day COVID happened. Wow, yeah. So we would have started the ideas, the you know, renovations, yada, yada, at least a year before that, but the day we opened, covid happened.

Speaker 2:

How did you guys sustain that?

Speaker 3:

We literally blew up balloons and made it look like six people were. We were six feet apart and thought how are we going to do this? We prevailed. It seemed like a lot of people traveled in Texas and Fredericksburg was the obvious spot. You know, we really stayed open as much as we could, as much as possible, and I think a bunch of businesses locally did the same thing.

Speaker 2:

We in New Braunfels had I mean, obviously it was a big struggle Our liquor stores obviously went from doing okay to the best they have ever done because people were just sitting at home losing their mind. The resort thank goodness I have a gated entrance and people were calling me. They had my cell phone numbers, Our clientele, we come, family and customers. And they were calling me and saying, Tiffany, look, we are losing our minds. Can we bring our rigs out here? What can we do? And I said you know what? I'll shut the gate. My home is your home. You guys want to bring your rigs, you want to bring your family and your friends and that's what you do. Come on, Right and come on. So we're different in Texas. We are obviously. Call us rule breakers, call us gangsters, call us whatever you want, but we do, we can, we do.

Speaker 3:

Stick together when it comes, when times are tough, yeah, we get going so, yeah, well, wow, because that's the day, you the day, yeah, and you know it was rough that first year, but the bachelor, we're real big on bachelorettes, bachelor parties, uh, birthday parties, divorce parties, yada, yada. We uh had so many people wanting to get married during covid and they couldn't. They wanted to do the bachelorette parties, so they kept coming back. Although the brides couldn't get married, the brachelorettes wanted to have their parties. That's huge.

Speaker 2:

Here it is and, and you know, that's kind of great. That's funny that you mentioned that because it kind of happens. In New Braunfels we have at least once a summer, once, or whatever we do, we'll have a bachelor or bachelorette party, but it's not near as big as it is in Fredericksburg. That's a big deal here. It is huge. It's wine.

Speaker 3:

I think it goes beyond the wine. I think it's the people. I think we're a beautiful city filled with entrepreneurs. Main street is only business owners. They don't let corporate America in on main street. So, um, you know, that's it's all of us trying to make it. Looking at each other across the street, there's more than enough room for everybody. Right Period, right yeah, we help each other out.

Speaker 2:

That's good we do, we, we do the same. But but I I think it was important to me to come here. I've spent a lot of time in gillespie county growing up as a child and being in 4-h and ffa and selling raising sheep and my brother raised cattle and so we showed all over the place and and I always did really really well here. So it's kind of home away from home and it was not very far. And then, of course, you know I'm a wine snob and I love my wine and so, boom, it's a win-win situation. But I just felt like it was really important because this kind of is a staycation for me, like you come to New Braunfels and you guys bring your team, we come here, so it's it's pretty cool. So I thought it was really important to to share, yeah, your growth and and I'm so glad I love it do.

Speaker 2:

Um, what is it? We were just doing this the other night, where they guessed the songs, what's called a video oh, kamikaze, karaoke.

Speaker 3:

Kamikaze, basically is where the crowd or the dj will say this is your next song and you don't know what it is and you may not have ever sang it, and you may catch on to the tune and hope that you can sing it, but if you don't, your tail is basically between your legs for the rest of the night. A true singer would get up there and sing.

Speaker 2:

I am not accepting that challenge. My tail stays between my legs.

Speaker 3:

I have been on that stage.

Speaker 2:

We're going to talk about something else right now, aren't we? Yeah, so we were. We stopped by. We were in town starting our wandering series and we stopped off to come by and catch some snippets which will show everybody the Velvet Lounge. It's absolutely phenomenal. One reason why we're not recording in there is because your sound system for your karaoke is probably blows.

Speaker 3:

Whitewater Amphitheater out of the water. Now we have had that sound system. Jason and I again met at karaoke back in Midland, lived in Midland and we said we can do this. So we had a little shop barn, if you will, metal built, and we just started a sound system with what we had Bought a sound board and people started coming to hear us sing. Soundboard and people started coming to hear us sing and before we know it we had jake's pub and 200 people byob that would stay all night, yeah, and pass around the mic and sing. Where was this at midland?

Speaker 2:

okay, all right, all right, yeah, so it was all that's on the floor.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it was so much fun, so again retiring we decided wasn't an option. We were like we did that pretty good. Yeah, you know, we could probably make some money.

Speaker 2:

200's a lot. Yeah, I don't like five people and y'all got 200 in your barn Easy.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, easy and it was fun. Yeah, you know, I remember one time we came home from Jamaica and I had, literally, you know the braids in my hair, know the braids in my hair. I had a mini skirt because it was New Year's Eve and we had flown in and it was late, so I wore a big old fur and I walked in and again, two to three hundred people and nobody knew me and I was like this is my house, right?

Speaker 3:

excuse me yeah, wow, now, I try not to let anybody know me yeah, I get it, I go and sing every day and I want to keep loving what I do.

Speaker 2:

It's your, yeah, your sound system. I was telling you know, with our music people I was like this thing is like nothing I mean you've ever heard. It's ridiculous, it is, and y'all built and put all that together.

Speaker 3:

We did, we just literally transferred it. It's still the same system, same soundboard yes, yeah, still the same system, same soundboard yes, yeah, isn't that?

Speaker 2:

crazy, that's insane. Yeah, which is why the pizza bar musicians I can't keep a soundboard for six months. Oh no, we, we really have preserved it.

Speaker 3:

We uh wanted to have the pizza bar quieter more.

Speaker 2:

That's really cool. So in in the velvet lounge, you've got your og karaoke karaoke side right. Then there's the kitchen that's in the Velvet Lounge. You've got your OG karaoke side Right. Then there's the kitchen that's in the middle Right. So in the corner area is where people come in to the pizza side.

Speaker 3:

Corner bar opens up to Main Street, washington, right at the hub of everything happening. Yes, and the vibe is house music, light music, a little bit more elevated drinks than in the Velvet Lounge side, which we brought in a mixologist who's fantastic. We've really gotten, we've been blessed with our employees and their talent. Most of our employees that work in the bar have never sang and didn't know they could. There's some in there that got some chops, fantastic, fantastic.

Speaker 1:

Fantastic.

Speaker 2:

So in the Velvet Lounge, which is downtown on Main Street, you just started a pizza business we did.

Speaker 3:

We expanded we needed. You know we got a lot of complaints that we didn't have enough bathrooms, and that's totally normal for Fredericksburg. We're lucky we have two Right, but you know these are all old buildings, they're, all you know, to be kept historical, which we all want. And you know we decided that we needed to expand a kitchen, make something bigger so we could serve some substantial food, and we needed more bathrooms. So we just expanded it into the next corner. Was that corner available?

Speaker 2:

It became available, so there was something different there. I was losing. It became available, so there was something. Yep, there was a winery there. I was losing my mind. No, there was a winery. Let me think about this. It had been there forever.

Speaker 3:

Okay, and they moved out, made a tasting room out on wine rooms, so yeah.

Speaker 2:

So y'all did that. You, um, did you guys just sit at home and decide, you know?

Speaker 3:

did you know what your menu was going to be? This was on the fly. It was again pivot and roll with it. So both my husband and I learned as much as we could about the food industry. You know, we both got our food managers so we could learn to set up a kitchen and, uh, basically run a kitchen should we need to, and keep it all how it should be legally and environmentally.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 3:

Um. So we, we learned on the fly and that I love challenges, I love change, I do too. Um, we're really good at that.

Speaker 2:

I watch a lot of food network. Okay, I watch a lot of the kitchen nightmares. I watch a lot of the were you?

Speaker 3:

scared about the restaurant side? No, not at all. We have such a good staff, such a good team Do you find that that's hard to find in Fredericksburg.

Speaker 2:

It's very hard to find. Which I didn't realize until this was years ago, is how many people drive in from San Antonio area and New Braunfels area that work in Fredericksburg and then have for years Canyon Lake. Yes, kerrville, bernie, comfort a lot yeah, but we're struggling to find people. Right, we are struggling hardcore, and that the I'm a foodie. Yeah, the restaurant industry is scares the shit out of me, correct?

Speaker 3:

Well, and we know, we knew when we started this pizza side, we were going to keep it simple, we were going to use the KISS method and that's that. So we're making five pizzas and until those five pizzas are fantastic and I think they are pretty good then we'll make our sandwiches. Once those are good, then we'll make our sandwiches. Once those are perfected, we'll incorporate our salads and, just you know, utilize all the same recipes, same ingredients to change.

Speaker 2:

How long did it take you to? You opened the pizza side Last week. Last, yeah, stop with the whole last week thing we do, literally when you, we were just talking about this, you didn't say hey, by the way, oh, yeah, no girl, I've been going you just put the first one in the oven you need to get your ass here. Yes, okay. So how long prior to that first opening did you guys decide? Because I'm going to tell everybody about this pizza here in a minute, that's pretty good.

Speaker 3:

But let's talk about how many recipes did you guys think yeah, no, or we come up with those five we really really got. Was it house divided? Was it like no? We had a several employees that have come from the pizza world and we my husband and I asked them. We gleaned from their experience what? What's your favorite to make? What's the most inexpensive to start with? What can we take fresh? What should be the most expensive thing? What's important? What did what? Did you hear? Yeah, when you had the experience, because we hadn't had it. Uh, and then he and I went to test kitchen after test kitchen after test kitchen. Uh, for the right cheese, you know, we decided on an expensive italian crust. That's fantastic. It's phenomenal. Yes, our daughter is celiac, so we had to have a gluten-free, so we brought in this killer cauliflower crust. It's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. We haven't had one negative review on the pizza yet, and that's probably because we've only done that and we haven't focused on anything else at this point. It's so good.

Speaker 2:

So we need to talk about this pizza for a minute and we are going to take the whole pizza side to the velvet lounge and say, but this cauliflower crust, it's pretty crazy, it's ridiculous, right. And then you put a hot honey.

Speaker 3:

there's a hot honey that they put on the tray before they put the cauliflower crust on so that it melts as it goes through the pizza oven. That it melts to the cauliflower and it's amazing, it's absolutely killer. It's got a little bit of a heat, but nothing kids couldn't handle, you know.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, nick doesn't do heat at all. Right, and she loved it, loved it. Yeah, I don't do barbecue sauce at all and I destroyed it. Yeah, I'm not a barbecue sauce girl at all. There's this little tiny boom Hi, how are you? Yeah, and that yeah, and so good.

Speaker 3:

And it is ridiculous. Not one complaint and I don't envision having any because I think it's. I think it's something unique. It's the only pizza on main street and you know it's family friendly. If you and your kid want to come in and get something to eat, it's easy. Grab and go, we're quick. If you feel like a bottle of wine, you know we label our own wine and make it. Fredericksburg made grapes picked here, all that. The Barnet Rock House has been open. How long? We opened? December 1, 2024, on my insistence. We're not completely decorated. Our golf simulators are in the process of being built. We'll have golf barn or barn golf here eventually. Simulators, two of them. We've got billiards, we've got shuffleboard, live bands out on this awesome kick-ass patio and it goes again 20 acres. So it's easy, it's fun, it's one mile from Main Street One mile from Main Street.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

So, besides the bar, the back patio do you have? Is there accommodations? There are, let's talk about that side of Disney.

Speaker 3:

I also have B&bs uh somewhere out here. I I love this house. It's called the rock house hideaway and it was the first heritage house built here, uh in 1899 okay.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, let's go through that it was hand built uh by uh some, by some beautiful people. They were very church-going and advocates for the Lord and there was a lot of that out here. Yes, you know, most of Fredericksburg is built with Sunday houses, and Sunday houses being where the neighbors from other towns would drive in back in the day and spend the night at somebody's house they didn't know, but a Sunday house would be open to any and all that would drive into church or ride their horses, you know, walk, yes, big deal, but that's why there's such a very good. We've kept it the same. Yes, the Sunday houses are so cool because they're just really one big room.

Speaker 3:

You know my B&Bs out here, it's huge. I think they have a congregation at some point, so, all right, it sleeps 22, uh, which is fantastic because we're steps away from a sports bar, yes, steps away from a ceremony site under some beautiful oak trees to get married, lots of space for reception. And then I have a little romantic take house that sleeps two, three stories, spiral staircase out here, again, steps from the barn.

Speaker 2:

Yes, you know, so do you have thoughts or expansion on the Airbnb side? Are you going to just keep the ones that are here? What are your plans? Yeah, what are your plans, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Depending on opening dates for my sports venue out here, I would love to do six cabins around the Rock House. Keep it the same vibe. So you built this barn. This barn was here. Was it here 1911. Shut up? Yeah, and so all the wood you see in here was from the original, really, uh, barn. So any wood that's showing around the bar and the kitchen side, and this, it was pulled from the original barn and remade. Yeah, so we dig it. You know, again, it was a wedding venue. Uh, wedding stop during covid. We had to literally pivot, and that's what. What you do. Yes, you know, when you've got something invested, there's no giving up, there's no just stopping it. So we, you know, did what anybody would do. We made our offices here. Yeah, you know, we hunkered down and we became a family who all worked together.

Speaker 2:

That is very impressive for one. That was a huge struggle, COVID, but so you decided the barn at Rock House. You decided to stay with the whole Rock House theme because I had no idea where that came from.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, the Rock House, and you know we're right on the Barrens Creek, so this would have been an obvious area to settle early on um the. They named it the rock house and you know it's literally built from rocks and I would not. I have to honor that. Yes, I think this is one of the coolest places I've been to in fredericksburg.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and you know we get to come here every day do you have the history behind that house, like, is it in the house, is it it actually? Do you have? I do that's big yeah, yeah. And you knew all that research, all that before.

Speaker 3:

I researched it once I moved here to town. Yes.

Speaker 2:

Yes, it was. Do you have any idea that this was going to be yours?

Speaker 3:

None, and it's a fluke, it really is. You know, we we purchased a ranch and the gentleman that we purchased the ranch from uh played professional football years and years ago was that one of his family, was the first settlers here, first doctor in town. Um, he is a really neat man and said, hey, I've got this wedding venue that I don't know what to do with because I'm in my, you know, eighties. So would you guys come out here and would you consider it? And we were like there was no thinking, it was an absolute yes, and it's a dream. It really is a dream come true.

Speaker 2:

I think that doing this Fredericksburg tour of the town, um, everyone that I have talked to has been and I've known you guys for so long. You know, taught at the elk store, and then Curtis has just got his place, and and the list goes on.

Speaker 2:

But the history behind the buildings and the land, and how you guys have come to purchasing them, to purchasing them, owning them, is so alike and so unique at the same time. Correct. But the fact that we just talked about this how timing is, so it's pivotal it is, and it's so crazy how the timing with your deal to grab a hold of this happened, and it was a no thought process. It was quick and done and fast. Same thing with them. Then you talked to Todd. I mean, his grandfather had that. We go back to the 1800s. You're talking about the 19, early 1900s, it's, it's crazy.

Speaker 3:

It is Well when it's so. When the universe tells you to do something, you do you do it Correct.

Speaker 2:

I'm a very intuitive person as am. I you very, do it Correct. I'm a very intuitive person, as am I you very. Yes, yes, so much an intuitive person. We definitely have a lot of that in common.

Speaker 3:

Which is so cool. Yes, it really is. Yeah, when you, when you've got it and know it uh, you have to utilize it.

Speaker 2:

You do, you do, you do. And I think that's when I had to sit back and realize after my intuition would tell me things and I'd be like, yeah, no, very hesitant, standoffish. And every single time that would happen, I would bite myself in the ass and I'm thinking you, dumb ass, you know this, I know better than that, you know better than that. And so it took me to get later on in life to go um, no, you feel that, yeah, it's happening.

Speaker 3:

Now, at my age, now is it time to go. Yes, I preach it to the 20 year olds that work for me. I'm like God, hayes if your gut tells you something, listen each and every time all of our employees, I say that too. And if the universe is telling you something, either slow your roll or go jump on your big dreams. Yeah, one or the other, right, yeah.

Speaker 2:

At the Barnett Rock House, where we are right now. Are you thinking a food site here at some point? We?

Speaker 3:

are. I think what we're going to do is, you know, wedding venue. They have a lot of caterers. This is the catering kitchen. You know it's beautiful but it's not meant to cook in for what I'm doing as a bar Got you, so I'm kind of limited. Again, I think we're two miles away from Velvet Lounge. I'd love to bring pizzas out to the barn and just you know, whatever we give them for on Main Street, we do some a little bit out here for our family and everybody that comes to visit us on the daily.

Speaker 2:

So at the Barnet Rock House. What can people expect? What are our options here? Wedding venue yes, full on. Do you put packages together? I do, okay.

Speaker 3:

Yep, I do. I don't do many weddings. If I do, it's going to be beautiful outdoorsy under the ceremony site, which is incredible. You kind of do your own thing. You have tables and chairs you can rent from me. You know, I let you move them where you want. I have a tent to rent. You know, everything stays down at the Rock House, ceremony, reception down at the Rock House, which is fantastic. And then, you know, when all that's done, you can have the B&Bs. You know, when all that's done, you can have the bnbs. There's a gentleman's quarters, there's a honeymoon, you know. Bedroom in the the rock house, there's a lot of neat stuff. Yes, I'll have packages. Had some champagne from the bar.

Speaker 2:

Um, we've got some fun stuff happening, so you can do a pretty much a one-stop shop, yes, for without you guys can, yeah, and I can handle it and do it all.

Speaker 3:

I'm easy. I do all this. I don't necessarily want to be involved in your wedding, I just want you to have the access to what you need. You guys rent the BNBs out here, sleep 22 people, you're all set, you don't have to leave. If you do and you want to go visit us at Velvet Lounge or you want some pizza, we would send you in one of our many, many, many wine tours or fun friends that have their big suburbans and bands to take large groups well, that's cool to know that you um do have the capability of making it as big or as small as anybody wants to.

Speaker 2:

a wedding, a birthday party, a corporate event, yeah, some hunters out here.

Speaker 3:

The fire pit outside this house is incredible. The trees out here are incredible. There's deer, there's armadillo. There's so many fun things. If you're not from here, this is what the whole country represents. This is God's country. This really is God's country. It is.

Speaker 2:

Bluebonnets everywhere, so beautiful and your area and where you're at in your seclusion is it's top notch. It really is. You did very well, thank you. You did.

Speaker 3:

And I'm so happy for you.

Speaker 1:

Thank you.

Speaker 2:

I cannot wait to watch and see the growth it's all happening. I would love to put some, some fun packages. You know I've got my. Well, let's go. I love my decor and, yeah, that's right up my alley. I'm always willing.

Speaker 3:

Yes, For putting some fun events together and some shindigs and cut a rug.

Speaker 2:

Let's do it. Yeah, so live music out here Every Saturday Every Saturday. Yep, live music One, two, four. What time are we doing live music here?

Speaker 3:

Depends, typically we're open at noon on Saturday and Sunday. So all you day drinkers, bloody Marriers you know, sunday fundayers we are Sunday funday all day.

Speaker 3:

So it's we have a couple of shuffleboard leagues, couple of people that'll come out and play pool early on, Lots that'll bring their kids after church, which is fun. You know everybody wants to have a couple shuffleboard leagues, a couple of people that will come out and play pool early on, Lots that will bring their kids after church, which is fun. You know everybody wants to have a good time out here and we want to make sure everybody gets home safe. So it's not a whole bunch of over-drinking. We do a lot of driver's home. We'll call them for you, we're easy.

Speaker 3:

We're family-owned and I think that is pivotal.

Speaker 2:

It shows owned and I think that is pivotal. It shows well, yeah, very much so, which is so important to me to correct. Yeah, yeah, share with the world that. Hey, we are. Everybody knows you my first name. Yeah, you know your clientele, right? So many of your customers when we stopped by and had pizza with you the other day we were visiting you were hands-on knew the people. Oh, yeah, first name. Hey, how's your cat doing today? Yes, no, how's your?

Speaker 3:

broken leg healing. Yes, it is important. It's so important, it's so good not being from Fredericksburg, I had I felt like I had to kind of really wiggle my way in here. Yeah, um, and that it's being part of the community, it's volunteering, it's helping when people need help. It's just doing the right thing and saying what would you do if this was me? It feels good, doesn't it?

Speaker 2:

It does, it's where it's at, it does, yeah, it feels good, yeah, um, let's see outside of corporate events and weddings and our live music. Keep it. Then the sports party, which is good. You've got how many TVs in here? We have 10 outside. We have two outside and eight inside Nice. Your patio is phenomenal.

Speaker 3:

It is. You should see it at night, when it's all lit up with the neon.

Speaker 3:

We were just talking about the lights and the signs and the what have you and my plans are to, you know, add some drop lights strung out or you can dance under the stars. Yes, you can. There's a couple of you know sporting game areas around here where you can light a fire if you want. We keep all the oak wood out there and, you know, pitch some horseshoes. Or you know there's a poker table here to play your game of poker. You know, go crazy, have fun.

Speaker 2:

I had a little boy come stay at my place and this was maybe a year after I had it, and he was staying in one of my little cottages and, of course, when I acquired the place it was definitely not not like it is now. It's obviously it's changed.

Speaker 2:

It's changed a lot so cool, but one of the sweetest little things I he was probably two or three and kind of like yourself, I become your clients and your customers become your family, because I I just want to know and and talk to them and get their suggestions and make sure that everybody's taken care of. And I at that time, um, maybe just had a couple of sets of string, like was just starting to get to where you can. You've been to my place where you can just kind of light it up a little bit and, um, this little boy walked outside and of course you need to have it as with now, kids being outside one. If they don't have an iPad, if they don't have an iPhone, if they don't have some type of technology in their face, they're losing their mind. Shit, half the adults in the world. The first thing that they say when they walk in is what's your wi-fi?

Speaker 2:

password, and you know what my wi-fi password at the resort is crime near river. Yeah, go ahead. Right, I need to say, throw your damn phone in the river and not, yeah get out here, right, exactly, and save marriages and shit.

Speaker 2:

But this is an illusion, seriously. Yeah. But this little boy walked out and, um, the lights had just clicked on and he turned around and told his parents, look at Miss Gypsy's fairy lights. Oh, now you've got that. And he drew a little picture of yeah, and said this is, this is Miss Gypsy's fairy lights. And I have it. We have a little.

Speaker 2:

We call it the Hobbit hole at my place. It's a little. It literally is a little tiny Hobbit hole that we, I love that. We, I love that. It's like kind of like our hidden office type deal on the side of the building and I've got little notes and and things of that kids have left me and I've got a couple of those here. The little rocks that they paint and you'll find them, that I had no idea You'll find them amongst your property and, yeah, I had one that left them on the steps of my motor home was so freaking cool and I love that and I they're making memories there and they're going to be memories here at the Barnett Rock House and then they're going to come back and go. You know what I remember, when there was just the Rock House and there was just the take, and there was just this, and now there's right, you've got this cool with my dad.

Speaker 3:

I am a shuffleboard playing, yes, so when the kids come out and that's what they want to do, I eat it up. So good, I may or may not play a mean game of go fish okay, yeah, I mean that's ironic. You mentioned that because nick and I were just talking about a good game of go fish the other day, yeah, and I don't even know what we have short cards, short cards that are 3d yeah, all made, all made.

Speaker 2:

Oh yeah, let's go.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, let's do it I'm a game player, I enjoy the cards and we have game night all the time.

Speaker 2:

On game night all the time. Yeah, so good, yeah, you get a little pictionary and going. That would be fun. But I love what you guys have built here. I love that you kept the history. Yeah, I can't wait to watch the growth. We're going to keep sharing it and keep coming back and keep coming back.

Speaker 3:

Let's do it again Wow.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, when the golf barn is built, let's go. We're going to do a whole video of the whole thing, of the very first time that I swing a club. Okay, if I don't throw my, maybe I'm giving you a lesson or two, yeah, something.

Speaker 2:

Just make sure that all I mean we're going to need all the screens, the netting. I'm probably going to need a helmet, maybe a knee pad or two, I don't know Shit. Can you imagine me with a golf club? Oh, my Lord, I mean we'll just see what happens. You may just be like you know what, tiffany, you should probably just drive around and make some cocktails or something. Go, show everybody your goat, show them a kangaroo. You never know. Y'all want me to bring the camels out. We can do some camel rides or something, and the monkeys I'm going to do it all yeah.

Speaker 2:

We'll do some random weird shit. I'm in. I told y'all don't tempt me with a good time. That's exactly right, don't say I will not ever do that, because I will be the first one to Never say never I will ride my little donkey all the way from New Brunswick all the way here.

Speaker 3:

I'm kind of a little badass too, tiffany, I know. That's why we're sitting here.

Speaker 2:

Let's do this Cheers, cheers, love Everybody. The Barnett Rock House, danielle, y'all, come see them. Fredericksburg, texas. We will put a link, we will share schedules, the music schedules. The atmosphere is phenomenal Over 20 acres, trees, hill, country, you name it. Family friendly, liquor, bar, all the things, all the good stuff, 10 TVs.

Speaker 3:

Shuffle. Tons of outside seating, tons of inside seating. Air conditioning yes.

Speaker 2:

It's huge outside seating, tons of inside seating, a air condition yes, huge. Get the inside and the outside the best of both worlds agreed, thank you, thank you, I love you and I'm so proud of you too.

Speaker 3:

I'm so proud of you. I'm excited for you going on the road. Thank you, and you know highlighting us, it's important for me to um.

Speaker 2:

yeah, but local business owners, I mean, come on now, we gotta stick together and we should yeah.

Speaker 3:

No reason that we can't. Yeah, yeah, thanks Chick, that was good, so fun.

Speaker 2:

Thank you, end scene that's our favorite part and cut.

Speaker 1:

Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut.