Fredericksburg Flight and Canyon Lake

Saturday morning we flew to Fredericksburg for breakfast at the Airport Diner and later in the day went for a walk at Canyon Lake with Bridget. The weather was perfect, although a little cool in the morning.

Dawn breaks over the field...

The aircraft awaits...(look at Renee getting more artistic with her pictures!)
Taking off from San Antonio.
Us.

It's much greener since we've had so much rain lately, and it was a really clear morning. Beautiful day for it!

Coming in to land at Fredericksburg.

Scott parking by hand, the ramp was packed!

Most of these airplanes were parked overnight, their owners must have stayed at the Hangar Hotel, which is right next door to the diner.

The Hangar Hotel and Airport Diner.

It was packed! Find Scott in this picture...

The airport from the air, the two big buildings are the hotel and diner.

Coming in to land at San Antonio.

It was such a nice day, we then drove to Canyon Lake with the beagle for a walk.

Bridget checking out the water. She's on maintenance antibiotics and steroids now, so we'll see how that goes.

Renee skipping stones. She had the winning throw with a lucky five skips!

Bridget going to investigate some hippies in their natural habitat.

Scott skirting death.

Bridget ran the whole length of the dam coming back (which is almost a mile) leaping through the tall grass.

It was an absolutely gorgeous day and we were lucky to get to enjoy it!

Snake Charmer

At the BBQ at the resort in Scottsdale they had a few exotic animals lined up and Scott took full advantage. This is a 12 foot python.

Scott in Scottsdale

Scott was in Scottsdale, AZ last week for a few days and got a few pictures of the landscape.

Mountains.
Various cacti.
The golf course of a resort.

Sunset.

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In other news, Bridget was sick last Friday night to the point that if we hadn't taken her to the emergency vet she would have died (that's not just Renee being dramatic, that is what the emergency vet said). We took her in at about 11pm Friday night and they hooked her up to an IV and kept her until 2pm the next day. She had been throwing up everything, including water so she was pretty dehydrated. She was also in a lot of pain and her stomach was as hard as a rock. We didn't realize how serious the situation was and thought we would be able to take her to the vet first thing Saturday morning but things got bad pretty fast Friday night and after finding out how serious throwing up water is, we took her in. They did all kinds of tests on her, most we had already had done before, did a couple x-rays, gave her a lot of medicine, but still weren't able to figure out what's wrong with her. After being on antibiotics the past week she's 100% again but her getting so sick is an untenable situation. She's on allergy-free food, a probiotic powder to aid with digestion, Pepcid, and now it looks like we may need try some sort of maintenance antibiotic since no one knows exactly what's wrong with her. We shall see...

Drought? What Drought?

A month and a half ago everything was brown and crispy it was so dry. Over the past month or so we've gotten quite a few heavy rains and everything is quite green again, like spring. Then early this morning we got another eight (!) inches of rain. McAlister Park is closed, and several roads were impassable. It doesn't appear any houses were damaged or anything because they seem to have a good system of ducting the water.

The flood gage in this picture goes up to five feet, when we tried to come by late this afternoon it was at 2 feet.

Another flooded road, but look how green everything is!