Giant Mailboxes Rule

When I got up this morning I thought for sure someone would have had a comment about the new blog. Imagine my surprise - not one! Doesn't sound like most of the people I know. You are way more vocal than that.

My brain churned on that for awhile  . . .  Yikes - I forgot to add a comments tab. Apologies. This blog thing is new to me.
So here you go - comments turned on. Let's see if that works. If it doesn't, I'm sure I will hear about it.

To reward you for being patient, here is a picture of our new gigundo mailbox.

This thing is almost taller than me.

Now, it was a process to get this incredible mailbox. 

First a trip to the post office to find out how mailboxes happen. Our post office is awesome - I don't know how they keep up with the comings and goings of everyone in Terlingua but they do.  

The first step is to evaluate if there's room out on the road for a new mailbox. The carrier has to go out and check. Since he determined that there was room, the next step was to obtain a mailbox.

Off to Bee Mountain Hardware - not difficult since we were staying in the trailer behind it. Easy walk to buy a mailbox. Uh-oh. Mailboxes not stocked. Will have to get a mailbox in Alpine. Since Rem came down with a nasty cold that was spreading around town and various other things happened, we didn't make that trip for a few weeks.

Off to the hardware store in Alpine, much bigger, much further away (80 miles) and not nearly as much fun to visit as Bee Mountain. When we got to the store, there were multiple decisions to make. What color? What size? What kind of letters to buy? How many letters and numbers do we need? Of course, Rem decided that (because we are now in Texas), we had to have the biggest baddest mailbox on South County Road. Don't know if we accomplished all that. However, I do know that we got a JUMBO mailbox.

Once home, street numbers and names and addresses had to be added to the mailbox. Then, I had to take it to the Department of Transportation to have it installed. They were really busy because a lot of their signs had been blown down from high winds (so we heard) and it took a number of trips to connect. Mailbox delivered to the appropriate people! And a few days later, there our mailbox stood, on the entrance to South County Road. Another trip to the post office to tell them to start delivering our mail to a new home and like magic - this morning we had mail!!!!! Thanks Lisa and Carlos for all your help.