On the Road Again
I made a delivery again today, leaving home in time to arrive at my destination before the shop opened. A cold front came through last night to blow all the humdity out of the air and it was a nice, sunny drive. I had to wait a short while for the shop owner to arrive but I found a nice bench in the sunshine and a shop kitty to keep me company while I waited.
I treated myself to an alpaca scarf being sold in the clothing room of the shop. I needed a warm scarf and this seemed to fill the bill...soft, natural fiber, and warm. The shop owner is friends with an airline hostess who picks up goods for her on layovers, the scarf was from Peru.
After making my delivery and receiving yet another order, I drove into San Antonio to pick up more lumber. I stopped in at Pet Smart to get some food for the dogs then ended up getting caught in a mess of traffic. I knew there was construction in 3 areas of town today and where they were........I made certain to stay away. What I hadn't planned on was that the traffic from one of the highways I didn't get onto was being diverted to a street I was on. Holy crap, what a mess. I was just then trying to get to a certain restaurant for a quick bite of Mexican food before going home. I gave up the notion of getting where I wanted to in the first place and while driving by a mall, thought "what the heck?" knowing that at least there was a food court. So I parked and found the food court...there was a Mexican grill with a Carne Asada Plate special that was really decent. They even used a leaf lettuce in their salad instead of iceberg, and had 3 different hot sauces. I tried 2 of them, and I'm missing at least six layers of skin off my tongue....I think the sauces were so hot that they cauterized that place in the back of my throat that usually acts up, making me cough and be hoarse for the first few minutes while eating a hot salsa.(but that doesn't deter me)
So with a full stomach and missions accomplished, I found the back way out of Dodge and arrived back home to check on my parents. I found myself more or less corralled into making a trip to New Mexico in December that I hadn't planned to take. My brother and his family are celebrating Christmas early with my nephew and his expectant significant other coming in from Minnesota. They are renting cabins in Cloudcroft for a couple of days, and Daddy wants me to take Mama, as he wants to go to La. to visit with his brother who is in the last stages of Parkinson's. I really don't mind the trip, I've not been to Cloudcroft that I remember, although Daddy says I have been there when I was too young to remember. My niece wanted to take Mama, but with her disabilities and the fact that Tamrah hasn't driven on snow before, and since I have 10 years' experience at it, if there's snow or ice to worry about....Daddy wanted me to be doing the driving.
So it's back to the grindstone, and the same old same old....build inventory.
I treated myself to an alpaca scarf being sold in the clothing room of the shop. I needed a warm scarf and this seemed to fill the bill...soft, natural fiber, and warm. The shop owner is friends with an airline hostess who picks up goods for her on layovers, the scarf was from Peru.
After making my delivery and receiving yet another order, I drove into San Antonio to pick up more lumber. I stopped in at Pet Smart to get some food for the dogs then ended up getting caught in a mess of traffic. I knew there was construction in 3 areas of town today and where they were........I made certain to stay away. What I hadn't planned on was that the traffic from one of the highways I didn't get onto was being diverted to a street I was on. Holy crap, what a mess. I was just then trying to get to a certain restaurant for a quick bite of Mexican food before going home. I gave up the notion of getting where I wanted to in the first place and while driving by a mall, thought "what the heck?" knowing that at least there was a food court. So I parked and found the food court...there was a Mexican grill with a Carne Asada Plate special that was really decent. They even used a leaf lettuce in their salad instead of iceberg, and had 3 different hot sauces. I tried 2 of them, and I'm missing at least six layers of skin off my tongue....I think the sauces were so hot that they cauterized that place in the back of my throat that usually acts up, making me cough and be hoarse for the first few minutes while eating a hot salsa.(but that doesn't deter me)
So with a full stomach and missions accomplished, I found the back way out of Dodge and arrived back home to check on my parents. I found myself more or less corralled into making a trip to New Mexico in December that I hadn't planned to take. My brother and his family are celebrating Christmas early with my nephew and his expectant significant other coming in from Minnesota. They are renting cabins in Cloudcroft for a couple of days, and Daddy wants me to take Mama, as he wants to go to La. to visit with his brother who is in the last stages of Parkinson's. I really don't mind the trip, I've not been to Cloudcroft that I remember, although Daddy says I have been there when I was too young to remember. My niece wanted to take Mama, but with her disabilities and the fact that Tamrah hasn't driven on snow before, and since I have 10 years' experience at it, if there's snow or ice to worry about....Daddy wanted me to be doing the driving.
So it's back to the grindstone, and the same old same old....build inventory.
posted by Rita at 7:45 PM
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