I Nailed Her!

Today has been a great day. This morning I walked ten miles with Leslie Sansone and I am now proud to say that I am now over halfway done. As of today I have walked nine hundred and fourteen miles and only have nine hundred and eleven miles to go before I complete the one thousand eight-hundred and twenty-five miles that I have vowed to walk this year!

Right after I had walked the ten miles and was starting to cook lunch for Tony and me, he, Meghann and her friend came inside the trailer for a short, but fun visit. They had surprised Tony when they came out to help him this morning and they had surprised me, too. Thank y'all!

This afternoon after lunch our dogs started barking outside, so Tony went to check it out. When the dogs quit barking and T. hadn't returned to the trailer I went outside to find our friends and volunteers, Jan and Todd Bauer and their family visiting with T. over by the barn.

I was so glad to see Jan and Todd—they are great people. After hugs and howdys they introduced me to their family and then we caught up with each others news while we showed them our dogs, because their daughter Shannon and her family have recently moved to Kerrville from California and they were looking to adopt a dog.

They fell in love with Gus and after I had told them Gus' story, the new dog that we rescued from the Kerr County pound ten days ago—they told us that they wanted Gus and they asked us to please hold him for two weeks so they could get settled in. T. and I were thrilled for Gus—to say the least.

Late this afternoon we had a thunderstorm, so we unplugged everything like we always do. Since I couldn't work on the computer or return phone calls or e-mail I decided to try to trim Mama's nails with our battery-operated Pedi-Paws, since Toto had let us trim his nails last week for the first time without being muzzled and causing a fuss or biting us. When I told Tony about my pet project—he wished me luck with Mama, our loving, eighty pound, rescued Great Pyrenees that sleeps between us on our bed at night, because she and I are joined at the hip. So I got busy setting the mood for Mama's manicure.

Since everything inside the trailer was unplugged I turned on several of my battery powered "tea candles," that flicker like a real candle for ambiance. Then, because our Bose iDocking system is AC/DC—I selected my "Going To Sleep" play list with calming music and it immediately filled the big room. The mood was set, so I sat down on the floor and called for Mama, who was sleeping like a log on our bed in our bedroom.

The minute that Mama heard my voice I heard her jump off of the bed and she came running to me to make sure that I was okay. "Sit, Mama," I said. Mama sat down on the blanket. I then lifted her front, right paw, turned on the Pedi-Paws and told what was fixin' to happen. Then I started trimming her nails without any problems. In fact, she laid down on the blanket and fell fast to sleep, while I gave her a Cousin Nancy dogicure.

Twelve minutes later I was done and Mama's nails and they looked beautiful, so I woke her up and she ran back into our bedroom and jumped up on the bed and went back to sleep. When T. came into the big room as I was turning off the switches on my fake non-burning candles he asked, "How'd it go with Mama? Did she..."

"I nailed her!" I bragged, as I headed to the bedroom to take a nap with her.

Rick, The Friendly Lighthouse Keeper, and Leisa called me tonight at eight o'clock. "Cousin Nancy, please don't pick up the phone," I heard Rick say, right before I picked up the phone.

"Hey, Rick! It's me. Do you realize how important y'all are to me—that I actually picked up the phone for you?..." Rick started laughing.

"She actually picked up the phone, Leisa!" My good friend said to his better half. Then we visited and then Rick said, "....Nance, we wanted to know if it would be okay for us to come up there if the hurricane hits Port Aransas?" After I told Rick that it was fine and that we would love to see them he put Leisa on the phone.

After Leisa and I visited for a couple of minutes I told her to tease Rick and tell him that I had changed my mind and that there was no way that we wanted them to come see us—Hurricane or not. Leisa started laughing and then she told Rick what I had said and I could hear him laughing in the background.  Unfortunately, I can't tell you what Rick half-hollered back to me, but it was pretty darn funny. I hope the hurricane doesn't come near Port A, but I do hope that Rick and Leisa will use it as an excuse to come see us.

Y'all have a great evening!