Terlingua Dreams: rowdy-drunk is back home

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

More bad weather on the way

I have been getting caught up on local news by reading Ciudad Acuña's El Zócalo Texas section. Found out that due to the inclement weather we are under a curfew and one could be subjected to a $500 fine for violating it. HEB was not open until noon on Monday and Walmart closed early because there was no power. Other businesses including restaurants and fast food establishments did the same.

Our Civic Center has been converted into a shelter. Most of the town is shut down. This evening we expect a hard freeze and tomorrow night more snow is on the way.

San Antonio is about to break a record of the longest period below freezing that is 108 hours set back in 1951.

Only a few San Antonio area HEB stores are open and there are long lines to get in with up to an hour wait in the freezing cold.

I do not see any social distancing in play here.

There are limits on different items depending on the store's location.

They were interviewing people as they exited the store and many said there was hardly anything on the store shelves. It boggles my mind that after a year into Covid people do not have the foresight to have food and water in case of an emergency. It is not like they did not have any warnings, the San Antonio media (where we get our channels from) warned us of the severity of the event.

I was charging my phone when they gave the snow forecast expected on Wednesday evening/Thursday morning so I could not snap a picture...it was between 2 to 5 inches...I think that is an exaggeration but we will see :-(

The rowdy/drunk and his family came back to his parent's house. His grandmother told me that they were renting an apartment. I suppose his power and water went out?

Good night. May you all have Terlingua Dreams.

Aunty Acid Saying of the Day

Monday, August 31, 2020

And yet another month in 2020 comes to an end...

Took some time away from my favorite cable news shows and cut down on my Internet use this weekend. I just wanted to take a break from the constant toxic news cycle that we can't altogether escape from during the week.

Friday I needed to run errands but I misplaced my car keys. I looked high and low for them, while I do have a spare I put it in a "safe place" and now I have no idea where that might be...I tell you I would lose my head if it wasn't attached to my body!

Spoke to a friend of mine for a little over three hours who coincidentally also misplaced her keys but at least they were not her car or house keys. This is when I realized that I need to fix one of the cars to use as a spare...but like everything else in my life, it will have to wait.

Saturday evening I was outside watering the trees when I saw my neighbors drive up and a few minutes later their rowdy drunk son drove up and he seemed to have a lot of stuff in the back of his truck...geeze, did he leave his wife again? I suppose that means loud music and firecrackers this coming Labor Day weekend.

I woke up at 5:00 a,m. this morning and since I could not go back to sleep decided to get up but not without first checking the weather on San Antonio's Channel 4. At 5:19 a.m. it was 86 degrees with a heat index of 92 degrees.

While it was dark I had the five cats circling me as they demanded to be fed but I made them earn their keep by protecting me from a possible lurking snake. I came in from outside at 7:08 a.m. without having to see a single neighbor.

Took a shower and got an early start to my day as I had a lot of errands to run that I was unable to get to on Friday. It has been a long time since I had to make three trips to town but I did today.

The only store I remembered to bring my phone inside was Dollar Tree. Needed some mushrooms and was hoping to find some Sara Lee wheat bread.