A Shot and No Beer

The heat wave finally broke today. We rode our bikes this morning for what seemed liked 15 or 20 miles but it was the humidity. We actually rode two miles and had to quit. It was 90 when we rode bikes this morning; it's now 62.  We put the awning out so we could sit outside during the rain and enjoy the lower temps. Then the storm arrived with 35 mile winds. Quickly the awning went back in and we watched the storm from inside.

After the first wave of weather we headed out to check the level of the Guadulupe river to make sure it wasn't out of it's banks and flooding the golf course. The river is going down and the golf course will be ready for us on Monday. Since we were out we decided to check out getting a flu shot at Walgreens. The first one we stopped at still had shots available. It turns out this is a much more fun way to get a shot than going to the doctor. There were several folks in line waiting for the nurse to come back from lunch and start giving injections. These were local Texans but they must not get out much. One lady had been Christmas shopping and had bought her husband a Snuggie (as seen on TV). She also had four Snuggies for dogs(not seen on TV) in the cart. She told her husband to model the Snuggie,he did. There was a couple there who thought the Arch in STL actually spanned the river! They were amazed that we would spend a winter down here. We plan to get all our shots at drugstores in the future.

One of the topics of conversations in several stores we stopped at today was the condition of Mark's head.  He forgot to wear a hat and more than one person commented on his newest mishap (no picture taken).  We even heard a comment at Olive Garden from a nearby table, "Look at that poor man's head."  This makes 3 times he's hit his head on the trailer and we've only been gone just over a month.  I see a hardhat in his future.

Our last stop of the day was at the local HEB (more info in a future blog).  They were holding a wine tasting along with some food.  Of course I had to try the three different wines; Mark just wanted to know when there was going to be a beer tasting day.