We were told, this afternoon, that, as of the publishing of this post, quite a bit of businesses throughout the city will be closed, hoping to reopen sometime in April. The amount of people gathering in any one place will be limited to less than six in a car, for example.
Needless to say, we went shopping. Not like you folks have done up North, but we bought enough essentials to get by for the next two weeks. It is rumored that some of the larger grocery stores will reopen, with reduced hours, within the next two to three weeks.
Tomorrow, I will be making a batch of tomato sauce, freeze it in one cup servings, and, when frozen, I will vacuum seal them. That way we can use the beautiful tomatoes we bought today, at the market over the next few weeks.
I have made two different salsas within the last two days, luckily for me. We shared half of both of them, however, so, I will be making more of those as well. They are both so yummy, we use them with almost everything we eat.
Too funny, though- we bought six large containers of yogurt, just in case we really cannot go to the store. We have just discovered apple flavored yogurt- my new favorite. We also bought blueberry with pecans and cereal pieces- my second favorite, and coconut with cereal pieces. We also bought a case of boxed milk, so we should be good.
The day before yesterday, we bought flour tortillas, one kilo with extra butter, and one kilo that are jalapeño flavored. Earlier in the day, we were at our local smaller store, Superama, and bought fresh corn tortillas, also a kilo. Also shared quite a few of all three of those.
This will be an interesting experience, as neither of us has been much involved in any kind of epidemic, much less a pandemic! We are trying to teach, and, remind people to wash their hands. But to live for who-knows-how-long within a semi-closed city will be something new. I will let you know how we progress.
And, to top that off, today, we left the condo about nine o’clock, and, came back around three o’clock. The administrator of the condo had scheduled the cleaning of the cistern on top of the condo, so there was no water available throughout the day. That said, everything I did after we came home required hand washing. Alas, there is still no water. I had to pour some over my hands, over the toilet!! Lovely. Oh, the things we take for granted!!!