Peg and I drove into Houston with the primary tasks being going to Costco in Katy to get my blood pressure pill Rx refilled and to get Peg new glasses. She has had funky vision in one eye ever since her retina surgery but the condition seems to have stabilized so she wanted to get glasses to attempt to unfuck it.
We had time to burn so we started out at Houston’s Bayou Bend, the estate of a woman with the unfortunate name of Ima Hogg. No shit.
She was nice enough to turn the estate over to Houston and it is now an art museum inside (that we did not see) and some really nice gardens outside through which we strolled a bit. It was very nice of her to give this to Houston because it is quite nice but they charge $5 a head to look at the gardens which is not a particularly good deal when so many other gardens are free.
From Bayou Bend we went a bit further into town to the fire station museum which was small. They only have 3 pieces of fire equipment but they have done the best they could with what they have. If you use the museum equipment as your basis, you might conclude that Houston went from horse-drawn steam-powered engines directly to 1940 pumpers with nothing in between.
We then went to Costco about 25 miles west in Katy, TX. Although we called in the prescription the day before, the pharmacist bungled the operation of refilling my prescription which was filled at Costco albeit in a different city. After initial denial, the pharmacist admitted he had not done the necessary stuff to get the Rx squared away. He finally did what he was supposed to do and then stated he would get the Rx filled in 5 minutes. 20 minutes later, he handed me the pills and charged me $29. From there I started my aimless wandering/shopping through the strange Costco and I was ultimately able to find all the stuff I needed except shredded stinky cheese. Peg was busy at the eye doctor and I finished, miraculously, a bit ahead of her. She took the prescription and went into the optical center and ordered glasses to be picked up in 7 to 10 days. Success, at last.