If you are going to cheat...cheat BIG :D

Woke up to a cloudy and humid day.  I needed to swing by the post office as well as pick up some more individual packaged salads and avocados to go with the turkey leg I shredded yesterday.  I do not know if that is the proper terminology as you know my culinary skills are not the best...is it shred or debone?

I took this picture from across the street. This parking lot
does not belong to HEB and is closed to the public.

As usual, I got a late start and the parking lot at the regular HEB was over-flowing so I headed to "little HEB" on Pecan Street which is smaller and less crowded. When we moved to Del Rio this was the biggest grocery store in town.  Being a one car family like most at the time we walked to the store for groceries.

As can see it has a small parking lot and is
caddy-corner to the Val Verde County Courthouse.

They say you should not go grocery shopping on an empty stomach because you tend to purchase items you had no intention of buying.  However, at the bargain price of .74 cents for a 16 oz On The Border Café Style Fiesta Size chips a few made their way into my shopping cart.

The store specials are valid from Wednesday to Tuesday.  Since I never saw the 30-pack of Natural Light for $16.98 on last week's ad, I swung by that aisle to see if they still had it this week and they did.

Not having had a chance to have eaten all day I decided what the heck...I would cheat again this week...so headed to Whataburger while it was still early 3:24 p.m. and the dinner crowd had not arrived.

Went to run more errands since we are expecting severe storms this evening and rains for the following couple of days.  Believe it or not, I was still hungry so if I had already cheated why not make it worthwhile and at the same time avoid Del Rio's version of rush hour traffic?

So stopped at Burger King and had their $1.00 Café Mocha Frappe.  I do believe I consumed about 5,000 calories today...and guess what? I do not feel even the least bit guilty :D

This evening we had severe storms, thunder, lightning and in the northern part of Val Verde County close to Comstock, Texas a tornado but it was in a mostly remote area.  I decided to shut down my computer, modem and cable box to be on the safe side after the City of Del Rio Emergency System called the citizenry.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.

Drunk neighbor / Bad Back / Burger King

After only getting two hours of sleep Friday night, last night at least I crammed in six hours although not concurrently.  I was awakened at 3:15 a.m. to the sounds of music, I did not even have to wonder where it was coming from I already knew.  It was the step-son of mother's nice neighbor (the one who mows the grass outside her fence line) who as usual was drunk and listening to music in his truck.  I turned on the television to drown out the music.

Twenty minutes later it started thundering and began to rain, that finally made him go inside and me back to sleep. This morning I was checking the trash cans that act as my primitive rain catchment system and saw that we really did not get that much rain.  I started transferring water around so I could empty some and clean them out.  I was using a one-gallon bucket which full only weighs 8.34 pounds (3.785 kilograms) well below my 20-pound weight limit when I felt that well-known pain in my back...I had thrown it out once again!

Came back inside to rest when a Burger King commercial came on touting their Mocha Frappe for $1.00 so decided I would treat myself to breakfast.

Enjoyed their Frappe

Their ham and cheese croissant was equally good. I may even make a return trip in the future.

Ran another errand waiting for it to be noon. In Texas, you can not buy beer until twelve noon and you can not buy liquor on Sunday either.

Spurs had a 2:00 p.m. game so I wanted to buy a six-pack to drink afterward provided we won. Well, we won but I did not get to drink it. My back was killing me and I had to take a Paracetamol 750 mg during the game...maybe Wednesday?

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.