Disappointingly dry weekend

You know you've hit the usual summer drought conditions in our neck of the woods when you're longing for a tropical depression. Just a little one. Nothing big. No high winds or storm surge. Just some rain to feed our poor parched flora and fauna, in addition to helping recharge the aquifer. When I got a good look at this forecast for the weekend, I was super excited.

It didn't matter that we were headed to the lake - rain was the priority. And we got one good downpour, plus a few instances of sprinkles and lots of clouds. But we were sorely disappointed we didn't receive anywhere near these projected rainfall totals for the little storm that actually turned into Cat 1 Hurricane Hanna before she hit the south Texas coast on Saturday.

In anticipation of having the husband's parents with us at the lake, I made a run to stock up on some more games. They particularly love to play dominos.

The older daughter and I headed up to the lake with our dogs on Thursday in order to wash sheets and towels from our guests the weekend before. Plus vacuum and mop, as well as hit the local HEB for food supplies. We also made time for a lunch stop at Marble Falls' famous Bluebonnet Cafe. My lunch special of chicken sour cream enchiladas were great. We finished up the meal by splitting a piece of fudge pie just like my granny used to make, only with a big blob of soft serve ice cream to pack on a couple hundred more calories.

I took the final pieces of decor up to the lake house this weekend for placement. I had to add a second end table to the downstairs living room between the sofa and new club chair. After waiting two weeks to get it framed, I was happy to shift the bluebonnet house picture to its new home so I could hang the ten vintage Marble Falls and lakes/rivers postcards in that spot. The fossil also found its resting place.

Saturday morning, while the clouds rolled in and we were still holding out lots of hope for rain that afternoon, we went for a boat ride. As you can see in the pics, Brutus joined us. And he's quite the confident boater. My husband's parents love their darling yorkiepoo Brutus, and he did really well with joining our pack for a weekend at the lake.