
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that rain is causing weekend plan problems right now. It is after all April. Rain just seems to be throwing kinks in the weekend plans constantly right now. Yesterday was supposed to start with the Race for the Cure and then heading up to Missouri to Lindsey & Grayson’s to help with their flower beds. Instead, we had pouring rain that lasted off and on all day. We did end up going up to MO for supper so the day wasn’t a total loss but it is still disappointing, nonetheless.
Last weekend, the NASCAR Sprint Cup series was at Texas Motor Speedway. The forecast was showing a small chance of rain all weekend. Our hope was that 30-40% wasn’t going to hurt the race on Sunday.

We went down to DFW on Friday. We stay in Frisco right next to IKEA and Dr Pepper Ballpark, which is home of the double-A Texas Rangers team the Frisco RoughRiders. Our hotel room had a great view down into the ballpark. It’s too bad they aren’t ever at home the weekend of the NASCAR race.
We spent Friday evening at my uncle’s house in Dallas. It was a great visit with him & Rod and a great home cooked meal! I took tons of pictures of their flowers & plants while I was there (of course).

On Saturday, we got up early and went to the Dallas Farmers Market. We left there with several fresh vegetables & some berries. We also left seeing all of the great flowers blooming and wishing we could go home and plant them all in our yards. Saturday night, our group of 13 met at Babe’s Chicken House in Frisco for dinner. For those unfamiliar with Babe’s, it is a restaurant where you pick your meat you want to eat (fried chicken, chicken strips, pot roast, chicken fried steak, etc) and then all of the vegetables are served family style. (NWA Peeps: Think Monte Ne Inn here in Rogers, except there are other meats to choose from besides fried chicken.) This is our second year in a row to eat there. It’s very good!
Sunday was race day (or at least it was supposed to be). That 30-40% chance was pretty well 100% at the track. We headed out there hoping the rain would stop and the track would get dry. No such luck. The race was postponed til Monday. (Shelby, Mom, & I headed on home Monday so Shelby & I didn’t get to see the race.)

While we were at the track on Sunday, NASCAR 4-time champion Jimmie Johnson held a Q&A session at the Chevrolet stage. The major topic of the questions was that he & his wife Chandra are expecting a baby girl in July. His words…”I hope she comes during the off-weekend in mid-July.”