Early voting, grocery run to HEB

How time flies...I can not believe it is already July 1st...where did the month go?  For that matter where did half the year go?

It has been very hot lately and there is no relieve insight worst yet the holiday weekend is almost here so I did not want to postpone the errands I needed to run.

Had to do my civic duty so headed to Val Verde County Courthouse to cast my early vote.  Found that early voting is no longer inside the courthouse but on another building in its grounds that once housed the County Jail.

If you did not know any better you might have thought you walked into a hospital. The personnel was in full PPE gear which made me feel much better.  At the time I went in, I was the only voter inside.

The courthouse is caddy corner to HEB #1 (Little HEB) ordinarily, I would have done my shopping there but I had gotten an e-mail saying our prescriptions were ready to be picked up so had to head to Big HEB instead.

Needed some more spinach and other items for my salads.

They had a good price on grape tomatoes.

Avocados...

 Hot dogs...

There were limiting many items.

As reported on San Antonio news media there is once again a run on paper products.

I was surprised there was a limit on ice cream as there has NEVER been an occasion that I have needed to purchase 4 tubs of ice cream in one transaction.

Gasoline prices keep on going up, therefore, I decided it was a good time to fill-up before it goes up even higher.

I apologize for the poor quality. Price was $1.879 a gallon
for unleaded gasoline.

It was an extremely hot and humid day. We had a low of 81, a high of 105 with a heat index of 109 degrees.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.


Aunty Acid Saying of the Day

The calm before the storm

These past couple of days we have had wonderful temperatures in the low to high 80's.  However, the weather is going to take a sharp turn both in temperatures as in severity starting this evening.  We are expecting high winds, severe thunderstorms, one-inch hail and a slight possibility of tornados.

In the insomnia front, it has taken another strange turn. I am used to going online after midnight, making my posts as well as reading the blogs I follow until four or five in the morning.  Lately, I am falling asleep watching the ten o'clock news and barely making it to eleven o'clock. On the downside, I am wide awake by four or five o'clock in the morning.

George, if you are reading me (Our Awesome Travels)...as unbelievable as it might seem I am getting up earlier than you!  Of course, I do not accomplish as much as you do in a day...will have to work on that.

HEB does not open until 6:00 a.m. so I took the opportunity and headed out early to stock up on larger size salad (they do not have that at little HEB) and basically have a much better selection as you would expect the larger size store to have.

The only bad thing is that being Sunday in Texas you can not buy beer until noon.  That is a silly law enacted decades ago to make Sunday a day of rest and going to church.  In Texas, the outdated "Blue Laws" does not allow for residents to buy hard liquor or a car on Sunday. Now, how silly is that? Ran several more errands so I will not have to be out and about in bad weather.

Telemundo has a daily segment in their newscast that gives the wait times to cross back to the USA both for Eagle Pass as well as Del Rio, Texas.  Yesterday at 5:00 p.m. it was 2 hours 15 minutes and today it was 1 hour and 15 minutes.  That is another reason why I chose to stock up today as I had forgotten all about Spring Break and the havoc it wreaks.  My grocery run to Mexico will have to be put on hold.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.



Spurs Corner

The first quarter did not look promising but somehow we pulled another win tonight.

I love how the bats take the attention away from the game by making their grand entrance in the middle of the action :)