Labor Day Weekend

We had a great labor day weekend! This is the first weekend we've been able to spend a whole 24 hours together. And the fact that it's a three day weekend, made it that much better. Usually our weekends are full of studying at the hospital and working on Saturdays. StuDoc had his second test on Friday, so there was minimum studying this weekend and I was fortunate enough to get the weekend off work. We drove into Austin to spend time with friends and headed to Lago Vista to celebrate my brother-in-laws birthday. The weather has been HOT to say the least. We were at 75 days at 100* or above in a year and 27 consecutive days. We broke records! As much as we hate the heat, you can't keep Texans from being competitive! It's bad to say, but I keep hoping one of these hurricanes will hit the gulf coast and give us some rain. Rain we didn't get, but wind and cooler weather we did. We have had great weather in the 70s and 80s. It's all everyone talked about and put everyone in a great mood. However, the wind brought some bad with it... Wildfires are spreading and picking up like crazy. Now that I write this (a week after labor day), we are up to 14,000 acres burned in Bastrop. Over Labor Day alone, there were fires at Bastrop, Steiner Ranch, Pflugerville, Cedar Park and Leander, Perdenales, Spicewood... all being evacuated from their homes. When we drove back on Monday, there were seperate clouds of smoke in each direction.

Here is a picture I found on the internet. This is the road you take from Austin to Bastrop. I used to drive this road when I would visit him in Nacogdoches.

I am in the middle of putting together some clothes for donations. If you would like to join in helping, you can make monetary donations to the Central Texas Fire Relief.