Day 5 has been a
busy day. First thing this morning,
well, after feeding the chickens, ducks and dogs, I took the recycling, from
all the presents that my son received for his wedding to the Bulverde recycling
center. It used to be a weekly haunt
when I lived in Bulverde. I worked at a
winery in Stonewall, and since Gillespie County does not recycle glass (what???
With all the wineries around, they say it is not a money-making deal for them,
which is so stupid, I mean, do you know how many wine bottles end up in their
dump? Can you tell this is pet peeve of
mine? Especially since they host a “Green”
symposium every fall…..) I would take empty wine bottles to the Bulverde
recycling center. One day one of the
gentlemen knocked on my window and I thought, “Oh great, they are not going to
let me bring these anymore.”, so I opened my window and he said, “Excuse me,
but you can’t bring those bottles any more unless they are full of wine!” And we both laughed. I used to take them cookies and banana bread,
I wouldn’t want to work at that job.
After recycling I was at the Super HEB in Bulverde. I just walked up and down the aisle of my old
HEB. It is fun to look at the
promotional stuff going on. I did buy a
new shopping bag, Christmas themed, I figured I could use it during the
Holidays and then as a gift bag for Christmas.
I also bought a pill smasher while at HEB. I am hoping it will work much
better than the knife I have using for Sadie’s medicine. If it works well, I plan on using it at home
for the horse pill size Glucosamine tablets my husband bought for his
knees. Sometimes if I overdue it, mine
hurt too, but I cannot take those pills.
I would not have been a good drug addict, I cannot stand needles nor
pills and only take Tylenol if a headache is so bad I can’t walk. My
husband called while I was at HEB and said that my son’s truck was ready in New
Braunfels. My son had taken it to be
fixed while he was on his honeymoon, so my husband met me at the Walmart
parking lot in Bulverde and we drove to New Braunfels where the truck was,
about 30 minutes away. I then followed
him back to Blanco where we dropped the truck off and drove back to Bulverde to
have lunch at the new Schlotzskys and take him back to his truck. When I got back to Blanco, I gave the dogs
bones I had bought and they immediately devoured them in 10 minutes. Need to get better bones. I used to buy my dog ham hock bones at HEB,
they would sell them for .79 a package, but then people started buying them for
cooking (or maybe that is what they were for intentionally, I don’t know), but
the price went way up, so I quit buying them.
Every hour the
dogs and I do a “perimeter check” around the little house. Phoenix, a mutt, who looks a lot like an
Irish wolfhound, but actually more like a cross between The Grinch and his dog,
is my daughter-in-law’s dog. I don’t
know him that well, and neither dog knows how to bark when they need to go
outside, so we do these little walks around the house, and check the chicken
coop for eggs, and sometimes walk up the hill to the well house. Phoenix has a lot of energy and loves to
run. I hesitate about leaving him
outside, because several times he has started down the driveway. I do not want to close the gate in case UPS
has a delivery. I may start closing it
after 7pm and let him out; he honestly would rather be outside. Sadie, an Australian Shepard, on the other
hand is never more than 6 inches away from my side. Our family got her back in 2008 from a friend
of ours who raised champion Australian Shepherds, but Sadie didn’t fit in
because she wants nothing to do with sheep or goats, she just wants to be
petted. I did not have any part in
getting Sadie, my son and husband brought her home one day, she was supposed to
be a companion for husband for when my son went off to the Air Force, but that
didn’t pan out, and like almost every animal we have had, she became mine. When my husband was transferred to Grapevine
in 2016, we moved to a one bedroom apartment and could not take her with us, so
my son took her. She then spent some
time with my daughter and son-in-law, and then back to my son when he moved to
Blanco. It has not been easy on
her. She likes to be the “only”
one. She is now 11 years old and is
having some health problems. My son and
daughter-in-law had gotten her a “thunder” sweater because she started shaking
in her back legs, but since I have been here, it has been so hot, I took it off
and she has not had the problem. I know
she is going to be sad when I leave, because she has gotten so much attention
while I am here, but I can’t take her because I am currently living in a small
apartment, plus my cat would not appreciate it much.
I am finishing
off a bottle of JW, from Silver Spur winery in Hico, TX. I had originally brought wine to pair with
books I brought to read, but my mind is still mulling over the information from
“The Journey Within” and I am not ready to read another book, but I am ready to
drink wine! It is a nice little red. I probably wouldn’t buy it again, and I only
bought it because I know from working in tasting rooms, how a sale can help my
mood for the day. I stopped on a Monday,
while I was on way back from a weekend in Grapevine, and talked with the
owner. He wasn’t too overly pleasant,
and seemed to have “other” things to do, although he did put his phone on
silent when it rang several times. I can
get the same quality wine from California for about $8.99 a bottle instead of
$30.00 a bottle, and honestly, the grapes were not all from Texas, but I do
like supporting small businesses. I hope
to have my own small business one day, a cross between an antique store, shabby
chic, cookies and maybe wine. If you are
ever going through Hico, TX please stop and visit the tasting room, I actually
did buy a Pinot Noir from them, which I usually abhor Pinot Noir, but a good
friend told me I would like theirs, which I did. There are also a couple of little shops on
the street that are fun to visit. Silver
Spur does not have a website yet, but please stop and enjoy Hico if you are
ever in the area.
http://hico-tx.com/.
