Toaster Murderer!

Today has been great! This morning I had Tony wake me at five o'clock so I would have time to do my chores and walk six miles with Leslie before calling Harley at The Rose 99.9 at seven forty-five to talk to him about our rescue ranch.

Harley Belew was really funny this morning and Harley's Pet of the Week was Kirby. Kirby is the sweetest 2 1/2 year old dog and he needs to get adopted, because he has been here too long! He is great with kids, other dogs and walking on a leash. In other words he is a perfect dog for you!

Near the end of Utopia's segment sponsored by Randy & Lisa's Save Inn Restaurant Harley told me an hilarious story that he was embarrassed about. He had a toaster that always burned the toast no matter what setting it was on, so one day when it had burned the toast he took it outside to his driveway and began slinging it in the air above his head. When he finally had in going in really fast circles he slammed it down onto the pavement. I burst out laughing and said, "You murdered your toaster?" Then Harley started laughing, too.

"I know Tony is a good guy and one of the most laid back people that I know. He would never harm a toaster..."

After I got off of the phone with Harley I ran and jumped into the bathtub making a big splash, because I only had forty-five minutes left before T. and I had to take off to the Medina Community Library, so I could speak to the kids, for forty minutes, about our rescue ranch, for their Kids Summer Celebration program .

Talk about having a blast! I had so much fun! As T. parked Buttermilk at the library's front door Susan Weeks came out to greet us wearing a big grin on her face. Then we followed her through the library to the beautiful back patio outside, so I could set up my stuff at the table before the kids arrived.

After I had the pictures, the "In Dog We Trust" bumper stickers, my notes and the 2010 newsletters arranged on the table, Susan took me inside and introduced me to everyone. Then we went across the street to get some coffee and water for me.

When we returned to the library I was nicely surprised to see my brother-in-law Sam and his beautiful wife, Stacie and their good looking, eleven-year-old son, Zachary, had come to hear me talk. After I introduced Susan to them they went and found seats near Tony and thats when I got stage fright.

When Susan introduced me to the audience and they applauded—that's when all of the notes that I had made went down the drain and my mind went into overdrive and I literally talked for over an hour and fifteen minutes instead of the forty minutes that they had requested for me to talk.

I had so much fun answering questions from the children and telling one rescue story after another the time flew by so fast. I passed out pictures and told stories about Hank, Mr. Rogers & Miss Dee, Beckham, our soccer playing wild hog and I think the kids enjoyed it. Here are a couple of pictures that Tony took of me speaking.

And here are two very short videos of me talking. The first one is me telling Betty Boop's story about her being so overweight, because the man told me that all they did was sit on the couch, eat snacks and watch TV. And the next short video clip is me telling the kids about burying my dog Yoda, the love of my life. And getting Tony and Ben to bury her with an outdoor solar squirrel mounted into the cement covered grave, that I affectionately call The Eternal Squirrel.

I want to thank Susan Weeks and everyone at the Medina Community Library for inviting me to be a guest speaker at their kids summer program. I had so much fun! And I apologize for talking too much and I wish that we could have stayed and eaten lunch with y'all, but we had to get back to the rescue ranch. The Medina Community Library Really Rocks Big Time!

This afternoon at 4:05 a UPS truck delivered my Thetford Porta Potti, custom made in The Netherlands and I was thrilled with my new throne for the Space Ship!

T. laughed when he saw how small it was and he teased me about it probably never going to be used, as I ignored him and thought about how I was going to build the platform (pedestal) that I am going to make for it, so it will meet my required fifteen inches height. 

Late this afternoon Kinky called me from San Francisco to check on us. He told me that the shows have been sellouts and standing room only and he sounded happy. When I told him about my Thetford Porta Potti arriving today he laughed and then he quickly changed the subject.

Y'all have a great eveing!