After three weeks in isolation I ventured out into the real world...

Thursday, April 30th three weeks to the day I could no longer put it off as the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott was going to open up the State on Friday, May 1st  and I had to go pick up the mail at the post office in Del Rio.

I was busy during the day and then the heat struck. I decided to postpone my trip until after 7:00 p.m. As I passed by the laundromat I noticed it was still closed and had the same paper notice on the door as it had three weeks ago. 

Del Rio has two post offices this is the oldest and the only one in town when we moved here.

 Had new signs that were not there the last time I was here but that I agree with.

We have a small P.O. Box and it was full. The post office is not far from "Little HEB" and I had seen in their commercials that the hours had been extended to 10:00 p.m. so drove by there.  I was so surprised that there were no lines, plenty of parking space, and few customers.

Made a beeline for my serranos but once again they were not fresh so I only bought a few as well as garlic and bananas. No pre-packaged salads were available but that's ok...I'm sick of them. They were putting out freshly cut meats and poultry but limiting it to two packages per customer.

There was plenty of toilet paper and paper towels but either they had no brand name or they had names I have never heard of before.  I am good for a long time as I can not live without my Viva paper towels and thankfully have plenty on hand.

I was going to buy another dozen eggs but noticed that they had gone up in price since the last time I was here.  I wanted some chips but the HEB brand was cleared out and I am too cheap to pay for the national brands.

I went to the beer aisle and there were no 30-packs, 24-packs, 18, 15, or 12-packs to be had. They only had 16oz six-packs or the individual large single beers. Ok...now I will wail...HOARDERS!!!

I went to the wine aisle and they only had the small box wines.  I believe I have mentioned before how my dear now-departed mechanic would get so mad because I would buy wine when I much prefer beer and I could almost hear him telling me that in his own unique way!

The sun was starting to set and even though I brought with me my one dollar night time anti-glare sunglasses I decided to head home. As I passed the main HEB I stopped and filled up. 

The car needed to be washed as it was still covered in dust from our last wind storm but the sun was setting fast so I will tackle that chore next time.  Funny this time when I drove by the laundromat, the Open Sign was turned on and there were two cars upfront.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.


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