SHOWERS HAVE BEGUN

The rain is on it's way. It is lightly misting this morning. We were hoping for a just a cloudy day today as the lawns need mowing again. 

Heard from my daughter and they are not coming this weekend. They are going somewhere else and taking a three day weekend. Boo hoo. Well such is life.
So my husband and I will spend this weekend of rain together . We want to do a little something so we will see what we come up with.

We are rethinking our Reno trip over my birthday. Reason being is, the Eldorado hotel has not offered that players suite room to us. The offers on rooms and packages have been terrific in the past few years and that was the nugget that keep us going there. The reason they offered such incredible room rates was the recession. Now that recovery is in the works the offers are not as good.
We are thinking we will take four-five days and go to Lincoln City. We love it there and we can do the beach thing, get a room on the ocean front with a kitchen as we love to cook while at the beach. There is gambling at the casino, the outlet stores( love the kitchen shops).  There is  much to do and is only two and half hours from Eugene compared to eight and half.
So today my hubby is getting online and is going to check out hotels and condo's.

We played gin rummy last night until we were almost blind. I was so tired of sitting at the nook table on a wooden chair. We sat there for over three hours. I won two games and my husband won one. Way to go Zo!
I was going to fix chicken pomadora but that did not happen as we were locked in card world. Could we not even stop to make dinner? After we finally finished I made cheese, basil and tomato panni's with tomato soup. 
So tonight we have the dinner we were to have last night.

I am going to make a lemon tart today. I was going to do that when I thought I was having company a couple of weeks ago. I love this tart it is so lemony of course but the texture is wonderful, like lemon curd.
As soon as the rain is over we are making beer can chicken on the grill. My man thinks this is the best chicken this side of the heaven. He loves slowly grilling it and with that lovely aroma overwhelming your senses who wouldn't like it?

I must get on with my day.
Have a nice Thursday.