Good News!

Today has been great. During the wee hours of the morning we got three inches of much needed rain and it doesn't bother me one bit that we are going to have to mow the grass sooner than later. Our backs are rested and the exercise will be good for both of us. It's about a three to four day process for us and we'll probably start the mowing tomorrow.

This morning after doing our chores outside, we came inside The Cabin to find Carlton flashing, on top of the breakfast bar. After listening to Fay's "good news" message I called her. After the first ring I hung up, because Fay had asked me to do that, so she could call me back, on her dime, to save us money on our phone bill.

One minute later, Fay called and told me some very exciting news about flying Blake Shelton to Toronto, on a non-stop flight, out of Dallas. And he will be personally escorted, by her friend that works for the airlines, because she'll be flying with him to Toronto, Canada.

After we had worked out some of the flight details and talked about how excited we were about Blake being adopted by her and Ian, I said, "Here's some more good news. Last night a woman called and left a message about wanting to adopt Blake. I'm fixin' to call her back and tell her about Blake being adopted and going to live in Toronto and suggest that she adopt his sister, Miranda Lambert...."

At 10:30, right after Fay and I had adios-ed each other, Victoria and her seventy-nine-year-old father arrived, on time, so Tony and I went outside to greet them. After introductions and a short, fun visit with Ed and his sweet daughter, Tony and Ed jumped into Kermit and Victoria and I took off walking for Molly Ivins' and Merlin's pen. Because yesterday Victoria had called me to tell me about her father recently losing his dog to old age and him wanting to adopt a rescued, older, big dog to be his couch-potato-companion and to go on long walks with him.

During our short walk, Victoria also told me that her father was in very good health, lived on five acres and was cared for by her and friends. She told me that he loved dogs and had always had one. When we arrived at Merlin and Molly's pen, Molly was already flirting with Ed and licking his fingers—it was love at first sight for them! And Victoria loved Molly, too.

Twenty minutes later, after Ed had signed off on Molly's adoption papers and while we were adios-ing each other, Victoria opened the back seat door and before Ed could get into the back seat to ride with Molly—she flew into the back seat, like she had been shot out of a cannon, which made all of us laugh. "Looks like she can't wait to get out of here," I joked. Then I reached inside the car to pet Molly, on the head. "Girlfriend," I said. "I hope we never see you again and you be good." A few minutes later the three of them drove away.

Tony and I are so thrilled for Molly. Here are pictures that I took of Molly when she was returned to us after sharing nine years of her life with a beautiful family, that became too ill to keep her anymore and the other is Molly posing with her new, loving family.

When Tony and I returned to The Cabin I headed straight for the phone, so I could call Kinky, in Houston, to tell him the great news about Blake and Molly and possibly Miranda getting adopted too, but Kink beat me to it, because the phone rang right before I picked up the receiver. And needless to say, "He was more than thrilled with all of the good news."

As I finish writing this I am hoping that Molly and Ed are sitting together, on the couch, watching TV and that we get some more needed rain, so Tony and I don't have to start our mowing project tomorrow. "Come on rain!"

P.S. The reason that I didn't blog last night was because there was no news to tell and I was busy watching several YouTube videos on "how to make fused glass jewelry."

Y'all have a great evening!