tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30181564476549500172024-02-26T17:06:43.486-06:00cousin nancyKinky Friedman, Cousin Nancy (Nancy Parker-Simons) and Tony Simons founded Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch in '98. Friends Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Spike Gillespie, Richard Pryor, Jerry Jeff Walker, Molly Ivins, Dwight Yoakam support the ranch. We primarily rescued dogs. Nancy, author of "The Road to Utopia: How Kinky, Tony & I Saved More Animals Than Noah" by UT Press '06 utopiarescue.com. © cousin nancy blog 2024 by Cousin Nancy All rights reserved.cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.comBlogger3155125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-27781053725155013262024-02-26T17:05:00.000-06:002024-02-26T17:05:55.735-06:00Episode 28: On Jupiter And Mars!<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">I transcribed <b>Podcast 28: On Jupiter And Mars</b> in case you would rather read it than listen to my voice. But if you would prefer to listen to me please click here <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207" target="_blank"><b>The Cousin Nancy Show</b></a> or click on the side bar👉 </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">Many years ago, I was surfing the channels and I decided to watch the Science channel. I've never watched the Science channel, because I nearly flunked science, in high school. Anyway, I ended up watching two episodes of <b>NASA's Unexplained Files</b>."</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">"The first show that I watched was titled “<b>Did We Nuke Jupiter?</b>” and it was an investigation about the possibility of NASA intentionally crashing a newly, retired, nuclear spacecraft, from the Apollo program, on Jupiter.” And to say the least it was really interesting.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">So I decided to watch another episode of NASA's Unexplained Files.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">That episode was about NASA having put <b>Opportunity</b>, one of their most sophisticated land rovers, on Mars, to roam around and take pictures of the planet, so NASA could learn more about <b>Mars</b>. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">So Opportunity, this unmanned rover vehicle ended up taking several pictures of something that it found on the ground, and it looked just like a <b>half-eaten jelly donut</b> and none of NASA's brilliant scientists could explain how this half-eaten jelly donut got there.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">"Seriously, I saw the pictures taken of the half-eaten pastry and it definitely looked just like a half-eaten jelly donut and the jelly was red in color.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">So, I am thinking that this red jelly donut was left there by a Martian that has a very good sense of humor.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">And it makes me wonder just how long that half-eaten jelly donut has been on Mars waiting to be discovered, because that nasty stuff that they put inside those jelly donuts may take years and years to digest or it might not ever disintegrate.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Anyway, every time that I told someone about this <b>half-eaten jelly donut on Mars</b> I could see my friends trying not to laugh about it, including myself. But please note that all major news organizations around the world were covering this strange story, too. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">And it was also reported that </span><b style="background-color: white;">William Shatner</b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"> even wanted to know how it got there.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Anyway, today while I was surfing the Internet about that jelly donut found on Mars I discovered that on <b>February 14, 2014 Nasa finally solved the mystery of that jelly donut. </b>And it turns out that it was just a piece of a Mars rock that was broken off when the rover ran over it.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">And you can check the story out <a href=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTht807_hco&t=36s" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>. And you can also see <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ksqmtvCqY&t=10s" target="_blank">pictures of it here.</a></b></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">****</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Okay, now it is <b>Make Me Laugh Time—With A Little Help From My Friends!</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Our dear friends <b>Clive & Curtis</b> sent me this one:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">I just bought a pet termite. And I named it Clint Eats-Wood.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Our dear friend <b>Fourth</b> sent me this one:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">A woman brought a very limp duck to a veterinary surgeon. As she</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope to</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">exam the duck.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, "I'm</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">sorry, your duck, Kathy, has passed away."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet..</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean you haven't done any</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room. A few</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">bill, which he handed to the woman.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!" she cried,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">"$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word for it,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">the bill would have only been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Scan, it's now $150.00. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Our dear friend Lyle, from Iowa, sent me this one:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Two blondes run into a building. And you would think that one of them would have seen it.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">And lastly here are a couple of good ones that I found on the Internet:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">This chicken and this egg were laying in bed together and the chicken reached over and lit up a cigarette and the egg said, “Well, I guess that answers that age old question.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">What do you call birds that stick together—Vel-Crows!</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">I accidentally swallowed some Scrabble tiles. So I’m worried that my next trip to the bathroom could spell disaster.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">And this concludes this segment of <b>Make Me Laugh Time</b>. And I do want to thank my dear friends for sending me their funny jokes to help me make you laugh.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Our dear friend <b>Gerry Olert, the best videographer in Texas</b>, sent me this great video yesterday that he recently filmed, at <b>Triple H Equitherapy—</b>Where Horsepower Heals and it was so beautiful—it touched my heart and made me tear up. </span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">The title of this short, three minute video is a <b>Magic Moment With Tad Leggett</b>. And<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh6LJsAehaA" target="_blank"> please click here</a></b> to watch it.</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">And to find out more about this wonderful non-profit organization, in Pipe Creek, Texas, please <b><a href="https://www.triple-h.org" target="_blank">click here on triple-h-org</a>.</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">And that is about it for today. And like I always like to say near the end of my podcasts, “I hope that the jokes today made you laugh at least once and if not—who cares!”</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">Thank y’all for listening and please always remember my favorite quote, “Life is short and so am I!”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Y'all take care and keep on laughing!</span></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-56964002558997002332024-02-11T17:25:00.000-06:002024-02-11T17:25:07.452-06:00Episode 27: Life Is Good And Even Better When It Is Funny!<p><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 16px;">In this hilarious episode I interview a couple of my favorite people—sisters: Eileen and Dean. I love these two women, because they are extremely funny sisters and their way of telling a story is like no other, because they will have you laughing from the git-go.</span><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 16px;">So grab your favorite beverage and sit back and enjoy listening to my funniest friends tell their humorous stories about a monkey and a horse named Silver, the Hell's Angels on an airplane, ghosts, a moonshiner, John Wayne's birthday celebration at the Wooden Nickel in Crested Butte, Colorado and Willie Nelson, etc.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">I did not transcribe this episode, so if you would like to listen to this podcast please click on <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207" target="_blank"><b>The Cousin Nancy Show</b></a> or click on the right side bar The Cousin Nancy Show👉.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">Our dear friend <b>Gerry Olert</b> took these two pictures of us standing outside, in front of my mural. Dean is on the left and Eileen is on the right and I am the short one.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZmolozv-ZyxfkJKKpKylY3_NkvifsAsoeeHhJI0HD6n647iDFy6_8epChrwnlyGQPPhc8dr3ClO0VwSOfRYa1pHfZyp3900D0rHcrhXDDBPcs0sulrHIhIMg-L6v27fuJ3O7nUjyb5RvTsEfcLZvaNhU5-Qqvn1FNc3nANz_c95PYPQQREc8DY6MqJaU/s640/eileendean.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBZmolozv-ZyxfkJKKpKylY3_NkvifsAsoeeHhJI0HD6n647iDFy6_8epChrwnlyGQPPhc8dr3ClO0VwSOfRYa1pHfZyp3900D0rHcrhXDDBPcs0sulrHIhIMg-L6v27fuJ3O7nUjyb5RvTsEfcLZvaNhU5-Qqvn1FNc3nANz_c95PYPQQREc8DY6MqJaU/w400-h300/eileendean.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZhs3sPu5fcT1HR4wXAY0b6OPsIQEH9j6gtmtaWGuG2aMrCSrvOGfNBmzu73G1rbJ00RfNxUXIVE27fiZ6oMOwrFF5m6eZ980nfml7ke1VSRS1Ai6hl5N7YW6g4l_C0oEZ7FJC5KFQ0vzHklLrLHASHV5Hx_tq9fEhatxtz6H9QCxXHrAIGr34B6vcPknu/s640/deaneileenme.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZhs3sPu5fcT1HR4wXAY0b6OPsIQEH9j6gtmtaWGuG2aMrCSrvOGfNBmzu73G1rbJ00RfNxUXIVE27fiZ6oMOwrFF5m6eZ980nfml7ke1VSRS1Ai6hl5N7YW6g4l_C0oEZ7FJC5KFQ0vzHklLrLHASHV5Hx_tq9fEhatxtz6H9QCxXHrAIGr34B6vcPknu/w400-h300/deaneileenme.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And Gerry also took this one of us right after we finished doing the podcast. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Left to right: Lisa, Eileen, me and Dean.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QwT7V1zDDnMdZaN_uMDxmmSK0lWE2oV1NSYLrjVnvhLBiH6cXbE3QxIAPAvi09-kQ-aWEI-hSuczL0sxZq3ahCb-DPTryDunmpO5nD8tM5sNpXkXxTpp47mQSiLdx8bpJQuWVcwtwz0FrThi7QwVwetVugSEX-m6l0uLW9DBr5Hn_97iKdd7N43nlLAO/s320/lisaeileenmedean.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QwT7V1zDDnMdZaN_uMDxmmSK0lWE2oV1NSYLrjVnvhLBiH6cXbE3QxIAPAvi09-kQ-aWEI-hSuczL0sxZq3ahCb-DPTryDunmpO5nD8tM5sNpXkXxTpp47mQSiLdx8bpJQuWVcwtwz0FrThi7QwVwetVugSEX-m6l0uLW9DBr5Hn_97iKdd7N43nlLAO/w400-h300/lisaeileenmedean.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!</div>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-84432545152045677292024-02-10T19:19:00.000-06:002024-02-10T19:19:20.251-06:00Twins? or Is It Memorex?<p> Today I was looking at some old photos and I burst out laughing when I saw these two photos of us accidentally dressed alike, which we still accidentally find ourselves doing. </p><p>It never really bothered me when this would happen, but Tony would more or less—be totally horrified especially if some one commented on it—like at the grocery store or at the the Medina Cider Mill, or Wolfmueller's Books. For example: This picture of us was taken at the Cider Mill, 2017 after we enjoyed lunch with our fabulous dog-walking volunteers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYT75MVpRi1ZfwpV2Vyab0TO9aJebT2by-twEJqb7D-uvD3DyC87RDL3kwwqTTGrChr587RZQm5r9fH0n4QQSMbjEB64-2W_t6EBsE_AEIONirEXaMwzgbpjHFQ2Sq1G056OrTFAr6d0yYlHx6LI4Wkt8icLxlG5uRRTN0PV6bvNdFDN4YWyAZXeNfsNcw/s640/tonymetwins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYT75MVpRi1ZfwpV2Vyab0TO9aJebT2by-twEJqb7D-uvD3DyC87RDL3kwwqTTGrChr587RZQm5r9fH0n4QQSMbjEB64-2W_t6EBsE_AEIONirEXaMwzgbpjHFQ2Sq1G056OrTFAr6d0yYlHx6LI4Wkt8icLxlG5uRRTN0PV6bvNdFDN4YWyAZXeNfsNcw/w300-h400/tonymetwins.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;">And this" twins photo" (except for our caps) was taken of us, at Sandy & Jon's famous Wolfmueller's Books store, in 2018. And please notice Tony isn't smiling in either photo, because that is how he looks when he is horrified or embarrassed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqGWcVz_ekVHzZXUeu0pxkjLHXKtWzHuvy5NirWhUZlF4f6StjyekZb5mXRF-3acyVCByNF2cdrJSVZi59PaJsJ2vhw06TmPytm-uN2lJIxDHg0xpp6SP5gEcB3RX010XO0HdtIhyphenhyphenaI7WOSXOFTDhIQKnAKn3gpdY6RWk47kB71HuzDRAz5aTH_H2smmA8/s1280/tonymetwins-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="1280" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqGWcVz_ekVHzZXUeu0pxkjLHXKtWzHuvy5NirWhUZlF4f6StjyekZb5mXRF-3acyVCByNF2cdrJSVZi59PaJsJ2vhw06TmPytm-uN2lJIxDHg0xpp6SP5gEcB3RX010XO0HdtIhyphenhyphenaI7WOSXOFTDhIQKnAKn3gpdY6RWk47kB71HuzDRAz5aTH_H2smmA8/w400-h351/tonymetwins-2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway, tomorrow when I do the super-fun podcast with Eileen & Dean I am going to try to trick Tony and dress alike again and get Gerry to take a picture of us as long as he doesn't make me look fat. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now that I've gone down memory lane with y'all I have to ask, "Are Tony and I twins or is it Memorex? Or is it just old age."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Y'all take care and keep on laughing!</div>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-58752218501704677092024-02-09T15:55:00.003-06:002024-02-09T16:03:17.734-06:00A Wise Doctor Once Wrote!<p>Today has been great. This past few days Tony and I have been cleaning house, because this Sunday afternoon, our good friends Eileen, Dean, Lisa and Gerry Olert are coming over for my podcast that I will be doing with Eileen and her sister Dean. And to say the least, "I can't wait to do this podcast with two of the funniest women that I know.</p><p>Because when our friends come over I do not want our cabin to look like Tony and I live here. So, I started deep-cleaning our little house and it sort of got out of control for me. While Tony did what he could to help me clean, it was a slow go for him, because of his two crutches getting in his way.</p><p>Anyway, besides cleaning the bathroom, the floors, kitchen, bedrooms, etc. I decided that I needed to spruce things up a little bit, so I totally repainted our countertops and black & white checkerboard floor, by the front door, and I must admit that I love the results. And to celebrate our really clean house I put a new quote on the chalkboard, that our friends Jim & Liz Cravotta made for us. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0DO5FmViIUnQBSNOh2GZpvhCqljhJzSky-EUBFy4CHwF8IcX0oZ3F5K4Pw-m2Aw_AbzCW-JoRCnrzBPvFiXmKDbvbtdlv9Vs56A4Sw1-Bcv9KNxlnHXqJHnLtd910zoNbQmWyFwzmHUb4ZcI9gxwAQcjtJ9P9ZDrFmgWrktYVot1yw17oGMpVjz4wAyL/s853/floor.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje0DO5FmViIUnQBSNOh2GZpvhCqljhJzSky-EUBFy4CHwF8IcX0oZ3F5K4Pw-m2Aw_AbzCW-JoRCnrzBPvFiXmKDbvbtdlv9Vs56A4Sw1-Bcv9KNxlnHXqJHnLtd910zoNbQmWyFwzmHUb4ZcI9gxwAQcjtJ9P9ZDrFmgWrktYVot1yw17oGMpVjz4wAyL/w300-h400/floor.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11hwzUXZVUSzXuR3q-gnrc_gGHe_qqHA-BEQMz06xrBrKo7TLkQnbKbUQB9V1AQPtd1lFzmKb9319Da6SDogFg7hiBdF-RYTKnzvU391_ojTZF62U_aPKEi-Z71-IZF0aCbwFj5u-yz_2Po-w1BTY4eRIf8LLWIH64Xq3_aYih0mT2IxdjXJgiWv4OWET/s1080/jeans2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11hwzUXZVUSzXuR3q-gnrc_gGHe_qqHA-BEQMz06xrBrKo7TLkQnbKbUQB9V1AQPtd1lFzmKb9319Da6SDogFg7hiBdF-RYTKnzvU391_ojTZF62U_aPKEi-Z71-IZF0aCbwFj5u-yz_2Po-w1BTY4eRIf8LLWIH64Xq3_aYih0mT2IxdjXJgiWv4OWET/w400-h300/jeans2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">And please note the stack of four, pretty, custom-hand-made potholders that Jean recently made for me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGlvKZDpWjRhKw0y4GE8V0LUYXCoOPfGCa1kyoP3Wbyn0lbetUsVruM0RKYd-hSe4o766adxz4ySRsoK5ytfaPJ-svmE5xkiU1U5QcExkaOjkySSv5zTDdnF4enME-WhcVpuNmPKuU3mcaGXHk_H7xc-ZQvUEtHs8IW9-Ej4-JJ8q9fRPbP2X4PG5TY4AX/s853/my%20quote%20for%20today.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGlvKZDpWjRhKw0y4GE8V0LUYXCoOPfGCa1kyoP3Wbyn0lbetUsVruM0RKYd-hSe4o766adxz4ySRsoK5ytfaPJ-svmE5xkiU1U5QcExkaOjkySSv5zTDdnF4enME-WhcVpuNmPKuU3mcaGXHk_H7xc-ZQvUEtHs8IW9-Ej4-JJ8q9fRPbP2X4PG5TY4AX/w300-h400/my%20quote%20for%20today.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div></blockquote><p>And that is about it for today. Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing! </p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-8885692847946798612024-02-03T15:48:00.012-06:002024-02-03T17:40:57.285-06:00Podcast Episode: 26: Make Me Laugh Time!<p><span style="font-family: times;">In this 7 minute podcast please click here on <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207" target="_blank">The Cousin Nancy Show</a> to listen or click on the side bar 👉.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">This past Tuesday, Tony and I met up with our dear friends, <b>Liz & Jim Cravotta</b>, so we could do lunch together and catch up with each others news. And to say the least, “As always, Tony and I had a total blast seeing them.”</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">It was decided that we would meet Jim & Liz, at the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/eastendmarkettx/" target="_blank">East End Market, in Kerrville</a></b>, which is Tony’s and my favorite vintage, antique store.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And just so you will know the <b>East End Market</b> was voted <b>Best Antique Shop in ’22 and ’23</b> by the <b>Kerrville Daily Times People’s Choice Awards</b>. And in my opinion-you just can’t do any better than that.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">We were meeting our super-talented, artist friends, at the East End Market, because Jim & Liz have two vendor spaces there and they had wanted to stop by there first, so they could add several new items to their constantly changing, unique collection of rare, vintage, one of a kind finds.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Tony and I were about ten minutes early when we arrived at the super-cool East End Market, so Tony and I greeted the friendly manager and then we went back to Liz & Jim’s area to look around. And Tony and I immediately fell in love with several of their latest finds.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Tony loved their antique, vintage <b>Wagner Cast Iron</b> muffin pan, that was made before the <b>Griswold Cast Iron Company</b> bought out Wagner’s.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">I fell in love with their antique coffee grinder that still grinds if you crank it, their rare <b>Erector Set</b> and the super-cool plate engraved with all of the 12 astrological signs.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">But what really grabbed my attention was this rare paperback book <i>Pleasure Man</i> written by <b>Mae West</b> and it was signed by her, too! </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">When our friends arrived Tony and I were still looking around at all of their really cool stuff, when I told them I could not believe that they had a signed Mae West book for sale. And Jim said, “Do you know that most people now days don’t even know who Mae West was? Can you believe that?” </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And all that I could say was, “No, I can’t believe that. I guess we’re showing our age.”</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">After all was said and done there, the four of us drove down Water Street to eat lunch, at <b>El Sol de Mexico</b>, one of the finest Mexican food restaurants, in Kerr County.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">When we walked inside the packed establishment, our friend Beto, their friendliest waiter, greeted us. And because almost all of the tables were already taken inside, we decided it would be fun to eat our lunch, out on their patio, because it was another one of those beautiful, sun-shiny days, in Kerrville, Texas.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Needless to say, our food was absolutely delicious and our conversations flowed with laughter. In fact, I laughed so much that my back literally began to ache. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And to quote <b>Albert Einstein</b>, “Time flies when you’re having fun,” well I was having so much fun I didn’t realize that we had been out on that patio for over two hours.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now before I try to make y’all laugh at least once, I want you to know that you can find out more about this famous couple if you listen to my <b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10183898-episode-14-the-cravotta-s-close-encounters-of-the-famous-kind?t=0" target="_blank">Episode 14 podcast, “The Cravotta’s Close Encounters of the Famous Kind!”</a></b> And I will promise you that it will be a super fun, hour long, conversation filled with interesting topics and non-stop laughter. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Okay now it is <b>Make Me Laugh Time</b>, so here we go:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Number 1: If you ever get an e-mail about ham, pork, salt or preservatives—don’t open it, because it’s SPAM.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Number 2: This morning I woke up and I decided to make sure that Tony woke up with a big smile on his face. So now I can’t have Sharpies in the house anymore.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now I am going to try to sing Number 3 for you: Like a good neighbor—stay over there.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Number 4: Well, I finally did it. I broke down and bought myself a new pair of pink cowboy boots with memory foam insoles. So now I won’t be forgetting why I walked into the kitchen, the other room, etc.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Number 5: We’ll be friends until we are old and senile. Then we will be new friends.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And Lastly, Number 6: I don’t know how people get eaten by sharks—I mean how do you not hear the music?</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">I want to remind everyone about my upcoming podcast that I will be doing with Tony’s and my dear friends, <b>Eileen and her sister Dean with a live audience, in the Last Resort Studio, on February 11t</b>h. It had been originally scheduled for the 9th, but we bumped it up to the 11th, so I can make sure our house is clean and it doesn’t look like we live there. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway it is going to be so much fun that I am sure that your back will ache from laughing too much! So you might want to go ahead and buy some BioFreeze patches, just in case your back does go out.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And this just in: I have been invited to speak at the <b>Faith & Freedom Club</b>, with my friend <b>Bob Bolin, Monday, February 12th.</b> There will be a reception held from 3:00 to 4:00, at the <b>Medina Community Library</b>. And then from 4:00 to 5:30 Bob and I will take turns at the podium sharing our personal stories about cancer. And then I get to give a short Medina, Texas history lesson. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And that is about it for this podcast. I did transcribe this one, too. So if you would rather read it than have to listen to me please go to:<b> <a href="http://cousinnancy.com">cousinnancy.com</a></b> and click on the link to my <b>Cousin Nancy blog</b>. And to further entice you—my blog will have a few pictures, too!</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">I am dedicating this podcast to our dear friend <b>Dave Crowe</b>. He passed away a few weeks ago. Dave was a good man with many talents. Our good friend <b>Gerry Olert</b> and I did a really fun podcast with Dave, in 2022. And if you would like to listen to it please <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/11502266-episode-22-full-of-gas-or-one-amazing-man?t=0" target="_blank"><b>click on Episode: 22: “Full of Gas! or One Amazing Man!</b></a>”—Rest In Peace, Dave. You were loved and you will be missed.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lastly, I do want to thank all of y’all for listening to my podcast and I do hope that I did make you laugh at least once. And if I did make you laugh then I have done my job. But if you didn’t laugh—who cares! </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Y’all take care and keep on laughing. And please always remember my favorite quote that I came up with all by myself: Life is short and so am I. I love y’all!</span></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-16775622826489637592024-01-25T17:56:00.015-06:002024-01-29T18:51:34.350-06:00Podcast Episode: 25 Here's Your Sign! or I Want To Get It Off My Chest!<p>Well I am finally podcasting, again! And in this episode 25 that I have transcribed for you if you don't want to listen to my voice I explain why the long lapse of time since doing my last podcast in March with our good friends Roxanne & Lyle. But if you would prefer to listen to this 15 minute podcast please click on<b> The Cousin Nancy Show</b> on the side bar or you can listen to it <b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207" target="_blank">here</a>. </b></p><p>When you get to my podcast all you have to do is pick a way to listen to it and you can listen to it now by clicking <b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Howdy Folks, this is Cousin Nancy and thank you for listening to the Cousin Nancy Show.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Before we get started I need to explain the long lapse of time since doing my last podcast. And I want to get it off of my chest, so I will try to keep it short and put it on a bumper sticker if possible. So here goes:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Last year while I was watching Super Bowl, a little voice inside my head told me to touch my left breast, and since this has never happened to me before, I touched it and I felt a lump and it scared the heck out of me.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">But thanks to a couple of dear friends I found a fabulous doctor later on that week. And after the doctor had checked me out he told me he was concerned about the lump and he scheduled me to get a blood test, a mammogram and then a biopsy. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Thankfully, I did pass that horrible blood test with flying colors, but it left me bruised in four different places, because that inexperienced young man obviously did not know how to draw blood or a cartoon. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">A week later came the crushing mammogram and that hurt even more than my four stab wounds that I had received from the blood test guy.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The following week they did the biopsy. And by now my nerves were completely frazzled.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Bottom line: I was then sent to see a general surgeon and I liked him, even though he wanted to give me a lumpectomy as soon as possible.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Luckily, my dear friend told me to talk to her sweet sister-in-law who had a lumpectomy, years ago, and she was great and she calmed me down, because she answered all of my questions concerning the surgery, etc.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">On the morning of the surgery, April 5th around 4:45 in the morning, Tony woke me up. And before I climbed out of bed I threw it out to The Universe to please give me a sign if I should get the lumpectomy or cancel the surgery.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">My first sign was immediate, because we were having a severe thunderstorm with heavy rain pounding our metal roof so loudly it made our dog Henry crawl underneath the bed.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The second sign was when I turned on the bedroom light and saw that my cherished alien-attracting-helmet had fallen off of the head post and it was on the floor, next to the bed. And in five years, ever since I made that thing this has never happened before. (And you can see my silver alien-attracting-helmet on the side bar, with me wearing it, standing next to my VW alien mural.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">My third sign was when we drove to the hospital, in dangerous pouring rain, with lightning striking all around us.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The fourth sign was right after I had pre-registered, at the nurses station, I told Tony I was going to the bathroom. And the minute that I stepped out of the waiting area into the hallway— all of the lights went out in the entire hospital which really scared me until seconds later when the hospital generators kicked-in. I guess the hospital had been hit by lightning. Anyway by now I was seriously thinking that maybe I should reschedule the surgery or just simply forget about it all together and just go home. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">A little while later this nice nurse took us to my tiny room and had me change into a faded, unisex gown and then I was quickly whisked away, in a wheelchair, to another room down the hallway, so they could start prepping me for my upcoming surgery. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And by now I was a nervous wreck until the nurse gave me a small paper cup filled to the brim with this dark green medicine to drink. And it looked like and it tasted like Vicks NyQuil. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway a few minutes later after the nurses had returned me to my private room, the drugs were definitely kicking-in. I was suddenly relaxed and smiling. And while I talked to Tony, we happily watched one person after another, on gurneys, being wheeled down the hallway to go get their surgeries.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Okay now. Picture this. There I was on this bed with wheels, sitting on these paper thin, sheets of paper and I was obviously in some kind of La-La-Land, watching all of these people on gurneys go by, when I turned my attention to the country music that was playing loudly, throughout that hospital wing. And that is when I received my fifth and final sign—that definitely told me not to have the surgery.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Then seconds later, this kind nurse walked into the room to check on me and to offer me another warm blanket. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And as she was putting that blanket over me, I casually said to her, “That is one horrible song for people to have to listen to before they go into surgery.” And the nurse paused a moment to listen to the music, and then she said, “Oh my god!” As she rushed out of the room, into the hallway, and softly hollered, “Turn that music off now! Turn it off!” </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And within seconds the music had stopped, and you could hear the sound of silence throughout that hospital, except for a few nurses giggling, at the nurse’s station.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And when that same nurse returned to my room, I jokingly said, “Now don’t get me wrong. I love <b>Garth Brooks</b> and his music, but listening to him singing that beautiful song, The Last Dance, before going under the knife is just a little too much.” Then the nurse, Tony and I began to chuckle about it.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">But I guess the last laugh was on me, because about ten minutes later, before going into surgery the anesthetist came into my room to hook me up to an IV and before he left the room he asked me to please remove my dentures, because he was afraid during the surgery that they might get damaged. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">So a few minutes later, there I was toothless and being wheeled down the hallway, into surgery. And that is all that I can remember. Thank goodness.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Less than an hour later, I woke up in my room with Tony standing beside my bed. And as I was putting my clothes back on my surgeon poked his head into my room and gave me a thumbs up, and he said, “I got it all! I will see you in a week.”Then I covered my mouth and I thanked him.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Before being wheeled out of the hospital in a wheelchair, I put on one of my old, gently used, blue, Covid-19 mask to hide the fact that I wasn’t wearing my dentures.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">After we got into the truck Tony and I went to Walgreens to fill my prescriptions and we were told it would take an hour, because the pharmacist was out to lunch. And because Tony was starving I suggested that we go to Sonic to grab a hamburger, while we waited for my meds.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">After Tony ate his burger with Tater-Tots and I had gummed my cheeseburger down we went and picked up my prescriptions.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">When we were leaving town and were stopped at the last signal light, our pickup made this horrible sound and the check engine light came on immediately. So when the traffic light turned green Tony drove us across the intersection into a small convenience store’s parking lot, that was less than 100 feet away.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The bottom line is a tow truck picked up our truck and our dear friend Sandy rescued us and drove us home.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">One week later, I went to see the surgeon and he told me that everything looked good and was healing great and then he suggested that I take a month off to rest and to heal. And to say the least I liked his plan.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">During that month, a dear friend had suggested that I watch this 9 hour documentary, The Truth About Cancer by Ty Bollinger. And so I did.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Every day I would watch at least one, one-hour episode of <b>The Truth About Cancer</b> and I am so glad that I did, because I discovered that there are so many alternative ways of fighting cancer.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway a month later, we went and saw my surgeon, again and he showed us the after surgery reports that showed that he did get all of the cancer, because the lymph node that he took out and the marginal area that had surrounded my lump that he had removed—were clean, non-malignant and were cancer free, too.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Even though my prognosis was good the surgeon did recommend that I set up an appointment with an oncologists, but I chose not to, because I knew I was cancer-free and I did not want chemo or radiation to destroy my immune system. And that is the main reason why I have not done a podcast for so long. And also because Tony and I were both working part-time jobs.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">But please note that I am not giving advice to anyone dealing with Cancer. The choices that I made worked for me, but I do highly recommend to anyone fighting cancer to watch this eye-opening documentary about cancer, because if nothing else it will give you more insight about alternative treatments and having hope for a cure, because in many cases now days cancer is no longer a death sentence. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now that I have gotten that out of the way or better said "Gotten that off of my chest" it is time for a Cousin Boomer update:</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Last week Boomer came over for happy hour and while we were visiting with him he told us about his 2024 New Year’s resolution. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Boomer told us that he is planning to go to <b>Paris, Texas</b>, so he can take selfies of himself standing in front of the Eiffel Tower—which has this giant, shiny, cherry-red cowboy hat on top of the tower. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And he also plans to go to that famous, historic Evergreen Cemetery, in Paris, so he can get a selfie of himself standing by the 12 foot monument of Jesus in cowboy boots. </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">When Tony asked Boomer why he wanted to do that Boomer replied, “Because it’s near the top of my bucket-list and they are both free to the public.”</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">So while we were sipping our beers I told my cousin that I had just decided to write another mystery novel. And Cousin Boomer asked me if he could please be a character in it and I told him he could, because he told me that being a character in one of my books has always been on his bucket-list, even though he told me that it is near the bottom of his bucket-list, since I wrote my first book. And I think that was a compliment, but I am still not sure about that.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway, since then all I’ve got for a plot is Cousin Boomer, who we all know is a traveling salesman, in real life, checks into the cheapest, most run-down, motel he can find, in Paris, Texas.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And after he has quickly checked into his room and has unloaded his suitcase—he jumps into his pickup truck, so he can go take selfies by Paris’ two, free, most famous, popular, tourist attractions.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And I’m thinking in the second chapter I’ll write something like this: </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">“Later that night, after Boomer has returned back to his motel room—he takes a hot shower. And when he comes out of the bathroom, he receives a note pushed from under the door, and he is even more intrigued, because it’s the closet door.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And the note’s three handwritten words were, “Remember the Alamo.” </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And that is all that I’ve written so far, folks. </span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Okay. Now it is Joke Time and here we go.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Do you know that it’s a fact that life isn’t a fairy tale. For example, if you loose your shoe at midnight—you’re drunk.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Okay, here’s one about addiction: </span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">I used to be addicted to the hokey-pokey—But I turned myself around.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And I like this one, too. Why do we call them olives and not—Greece’s Pieces?</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And lastly, what do you call a lazy kangaroo? A pouch potato.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Well, folks that’s about it for this podcast. And I do promise to get back-in-the saddle-again and start podcasting on a regular basis. Some of my podcasts will still be about an hour long, but most of them will be much shorter—just so I can tell you a few jokes and to hopefully make you laugh out loud, because it is a fact, that laughter is the best medicine.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">FYI: On February 9th, I want to give y’all a head’s up about an upcoming podcast, because I will be doing a super-fun podcast with my dear friends Eileen and her sister Dean with a live audience, in the Last Resort studio. And y’all will be in for a real treat listening to some of their hilarious tales. So please remember to mark your calendars.</span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lastly, before I go I do want you to know that I love and am dedicating this podcast to some very special people in my life: Tony, Cindy, Ronnie & Nita, Eileen, Sandy, Jean, Steve, Andy, Sue, Lyle & Roxanne, Dylan, Lloyd, Clive & Curtis, Cindy P., Gerry, Angel, Debbie and Mack, and Fourth and to the finest nurses and the best doctors, in central Texas.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And that is about it for now. Thank y’all for listening. Y’all take care and keep on laughing. And please always remember my favorite quote that I came up with: “Life is short and so am I!” I love y’all.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-46629104316477006372023-12-24T17:21:00.000-06:002023-12-24T17:21:12.485-06:00Merry Christmas!<p> Tony & I and Little Debbie, Beau, Henry Standing Bear and our super-cool cats Sunshine, Moonshine, Shoeshine and Graydon wish y'all a Merry Christmas And Peace On Earth.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZaMBodm2Zh23EHfvLJQPKWnwdBAByqLjXKSDHaEaxcCgHjE9Fma0de1ZbOyCMw4075Y3OhSUXJmm4wOpXajWIyHjBvzMMb7s1vT6lmfGG2liOceyzKCAaz8dhCBN93ld2EJzIzF1C_yVtZ8u3L5DSpMgWpvqcq-eIYNX1WNu4mygFI17nm8arMbtHtboo/s1841/greatpyrenees.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="1841" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZaMBodm2Zh23EHfvLJQPKWnwdBAByqLjXKSDHaEaxcCgHjE9Fma0de1ZbOyCMw4075Y3OhSUXJmm4wOpXajWIyHjBvzMMb7s1vT6lmfGG2liOceyzKCAaz8dhCBN93ld2EJzIzF1C_yVtZ8u3L5DSpMgWpvqcq-eIYNX1WNu4mygFI17nm8arMbtHtboo/w400-h285/greatpyrenees.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-13797439461170632962023-03-28T15:13:00.001-05:002023-03-28T15:29:39.848-05:00Episode 24: Down Under! or Digging Up Bones!<p><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">In this entertaining podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing our dear friends, Lyle & Roxanne, who are retired gave diggers. Grave digging is a very serious subject for this couple, so I tried to keep it light with their best upbeat stories only.</span></p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="lato, Helvetic Neue, Arial, san-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">During this podcast Lyle & his beautiful wife traded some funny jokes with me and we also talked about their mutual love of dogs, love of all animals, Roxanne's & Lyle's beloved dog Cooper, who they had rescued from a shelter, then fostered and then adopted. Seriously Cooper now has it made in the shade.</span></span></span><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">So pop a top off of your favorite beer or favorite beverage and then kick back and enjoy listening to another fun interview.</span><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">Here are pictures of Lyle & Roxanne doing the podcast with me that Tony took and a before and after pictures of sweet, beautiful Cooper.</span><div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofVCRpt4J0QMRk92k4NqdjmTEg0xid5STh2CZWAq1PXio4dHGYgpHFGRg3X5mO1L_C21rcCKOld53MyNSOtvOn-k6r6oxN1_bxTWvp8VbM_R7tAk0886AAwVoAnZx31b8UmHIokYmCUD8fsoXF9Jv4z3p0bDGNoO__HmW5csv0inA8Xxpkgmmet5Z4w/s576/roxannecooper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="273" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofVCRpt4J0QMRk92k4NqdjmTEg0xid5STh2CZWAq1PXio4dHGYgpHFGRg3X5mO1L_C21rcCKOld53MyNSOtvOn-k6r6oxN1_bxTWvp8VbM_R7tAk0886AAwVoAnZx31b8UmHIokYmCUD8fsoXF9Jv4z3p0bDGNoO__HmW5csv0inA8Xxpkgmmet5Z4w/w190-h400/roxannecooper.jpg" width="190" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To listen to this podcast please <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/12519982-down-under-or-digging-up-bones?t=0" target="_blank"><b>click here</b></a>.</div></div><div><br style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: #3b82f680; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; border: 0px solid rgb(229, 231, 235); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 16px;" /><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">Thank y'all for listening and keep on laughing!</span></div></div>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-15180665284305067622022-10-14T18:22:00.001-05:002022-10-14T18:37:16.551-05:00Episode 22: Full Of Gas! or One Amazing Man!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I have had a blast doing this podcast: <b>Full of Gas </b>that was filmed entirely at <b>Ben Silva's gas station in Staples, Texas</b>! This super entertaining film was written and directed by my new, dear friend <b>Dave Crowe</b>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvD6yX_zFz-EgCD4rFGEU5EV2D94aLn97KKXg7kl-n_nkuNmrLjVKKq_E24AWX2ekMCGOK9csic0Su_vV43co8ZkkTdXrz8TmoG9HWEjAxoWTvBodLh-m5Q2RKPF-CIiZBclEbifphRU7wnhAjip0tviwdQPM8fVEIzLiKj8cw-Ox6skYbznRXLfESUw/s698/infocrowe.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="698" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvD6yX_zFz-EgCD4rFGEU5EV2D94aLn97KKXg7kl-n_nkuNmrLjVKKq_E24AWX2ekMCGOK9csic0Su_vV43co8ZkkTdXrz8TmoG9HWEjAxoWTvBodLh-m5Q2RKPF-CIiZBclEbifphRU7wnhAjip0tviwdQPM8fVEIzLiKj8cw-Ox6skYbznRXLfESUw/s320/infocrowe.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">It was produced by </span><b style="text-align: left;">Dean Reading</b><span style="text-align: left;"> and Tony's and my good friend, </span><b style="text-align: left;">Gerry Olert</b><span style="text-align: left;">, was the director of photography. And I do want to thank Gerry for showing me </span><b style="text-align: left;">Full of Gas</b><span style="text-align: left;"> and for recommending that I do a podcast with Dave Crowe to discuss the making of his fabulous movie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The talented principle actors in this humorous film are:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Dave Crowe</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>George Streib</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Jeff Hardwick </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Andy Andersen</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And the also talented supporting actors are:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Weldon Oliver</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Karlin Clark</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Ron Clark</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Music by:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Rodney Joe Smith</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Chris Burns</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Catering by <b>Brick And Blossom</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Location Manager</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Paul Castillo</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Horse Wrangler</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>George Streib</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Editor</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Gerry Olert</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DcOZ0P_kXf4hRQo0BroIkaNMWkznVWQUD_kqM1kgKV9wWlBgn1lzvRwxZ78_R3O4jOx46Pb2ujwAJA_weMeAKZE5XmviwiWjkCzkRzvCMSecga8J3N_y86T53fgWPdkyyVaLk0KQE_dDu2IXo2y7Tw71sUkzYAC7Sg1C0v77gUgXDGlsQlVjPrXP_Q/s1125/crow.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DcOZ0P_kXf4hRQo0BroIkaNMWkznVWQUD_kqM1kgKV9wWlBgn1lzvRwxZ78_R3O4jOx46Pb2ujwAJA_weMeAKZE5XmviwiWjkCzkRzvCMSecga8J3N_y86T53fgWPdkyyVaLk0KQE_dDu2IXo2y7Tw71sUkzYAC7Sg1C0v77gUgXDGlsQlVjPrXP_Q/s320/crow.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Left to right: Dave Crowe and Weldon Oliver</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkh1BeU5nnvCStz3dRIjuuC_98u7BcuHdivkVdnXA5Dq9gcLB2SH_OwvPIOQ2JZQNA5VWLodMpcs4duuhGH4Qvzp-Fh3s2tyCCmn-aOUnAVsg8EfFhxOwFxp8VM9oeplWhWDobtZuQAX7hju2eyhzaAizbuEbB3lYLMYcphURgq_F_CyZDa-_JzMTFMw/s320/crowpod.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkh1BeU5nnvCStz3dRIjuuC_98u7BcuHdivkVdnXA5Dq9gcLB2SH_OwvPIOQ2JZQNA5VWLodMpcs4duuhGH4Qvzp-Fh3s2tyCCmn-aOUnAVsg8EfFhxOwFxp8VM9oeplWhWDobtZuQAX7hju2eyhzaAizbuEbB3lYLMYcphURgq_F_CyZDa-_JzMTFMw/s1600/crowpod.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The pict above ↑ and below↓ shows Gerry Olert setting up his cameras.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS1wNMYl0-PfHXi03vpbkWOmdU71TLogk-3c8OJiprrX4IMlyz7Jad4hoqFRT1tp9vbLQJFqFqEpwg1-0LTwJjZhrRP1-6mOt0hjcE-6NZzzdDJSK5wa5ZWZHYXJjfc0Kfyl6fhlIYAECCm9AwktmaxgWb8lmUcS6658IaSK9a2q7qInjHEukQ6MdJAg/s320/d.crow.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS1wNMYl0-PfHXi03vpbkWOmdU71TLogk-3c8OJiprrX4IMlyz7Jad4hoqFRT1tp9vbLQJFqFqEpwg1-0LTwJjZhrRP1-6mOt0hjcE-6NZzzdDJSK5wa5ZWZHYXJjfc0Kfyl6fhlIYAECCm9AwktmaxgWb8lmUcS6658IaSK9a2q7qInjHEukQ6MdJAg/s1600/d.crow.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In 2000, Dave Crowe was in the famous movie <b>Jericho</b> which was filmed at <b>Alamo Village, Brackettville, Texas</b>. He had seven minutes on screen and had over 20 lines. And here are a few pictures of him in this film.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinQZJQLtXflUxiU3Fd61KEQKEIUelQeCPrVbx0rz7B2JaBbYDCWKRdn5tNvnzY3MIa9K9nml5dI65p7AggMwuha8guG_XxG1nEWeZEgdsODai0KaU9K4PNioRB6uSVckNNw7dW3CAP6uZHK4AUSa--vQOcJpDTbLbXHMJXYnndeATs0VMzWenBrHbyWw/s522/Jerico_2_007%20Copy%20%231-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="474" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinQZJQLtXflUxiU3Fd61KEQKEIUelQeCPrVbx0rz7B2JaBbYDCWKRdn5tNvnzY3MIa9K9nml5dI65p7AggMwuha8guG_XxG1nEWeZEgdsODai0KaU9K4PNioRB6uSVckNNw7dW3CAP6uZHK4AUSa--vQOcJpDTbLbXHMJXYnndeATs0VMzWenBrHbyWw/s320/Jerico_2_007%20Copy%20%231-1.jpg" width="291" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here is a more recent photo of Dave Crowe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0LTS_wDYLObwDlVikutBnt3YPjJmAdRFckTkfDQy-YQHeWPP3ChBsWGvnuamwW_rUAX0A4HhM9EKfLHztsyOqz4EutqjD4llIA4fQpxJhdbCJ4TVr2gpzCoq2HuP4PW83Yb6_AZezRapcnzqp79oQRHvl0rnqofKFG1lONPYi1O67HK5uFCzz76xYlg/s2048/701987_100394880137173_1766089009_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0LTS_wDYLObwDlVikutBnt3YPjJmAdRFckTkfDQy-YQHeWPP3ChBsWGvnuamwW_rUAX0A4HhM9EKfLHztsyOqz4EutqjD4llIA4fQpxJhdbCJ4TVr2gpzCoq2HuP4PW83Yb6_AZezRapcnzqp79oQRHvl0rnqofKFG1lONPYi1O67HK5uFCzz76xYlg/s320/701987_100394880137173_1766089009_o.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here is a photo of "Marshall" Dave Crowe taken at the Alamo Village, Brackettville, Texas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8qGj1eeg3JhjKH4ROsE4vVRxt_KekqaOH3jiCghIkclLyvHScnZvIVv22IbVu-WsJBhQloU4ZzwY7VNm7bwsgZvfGFoTmytwArBrkSipEw40n0i0-WLie8jh-d-1aN9PFDT7FGcj-7WJJB48CllBoSnnjpGabEiKtsFvHDbRtrRg1u1zzXop5xZbqA/s1440/marshallcrowe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1227" data-original-width="1440" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd8qGj1eeg3JhjKH4ROsE4vVRxt_KekqaOH3jiCghIkclLyvHScnZvIVv22IbVu-WsJBhQloU4ZzwY7VNm7bwsgZvfGFoTmytwArBrkSipEw40n0i0-WLie8jh-d-1aN9PFDT7FGcj-7WJJB48CllBoSnnjpGabEiKtsFvHDbRtrRg1u1zzXop5xZbqA/s320/marshallcrowe.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dave Crowe is one extremely interesting character. In fact, I could have spent a few more hours interviewing Dave Crowe about his life. So Dave has promised me to do another podcast with me when he releases his latest film <b>Full Of Gas.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Besides being a film actor in many, many movies, a cowboy poet, an author of 9 books with more to come, he is a real ordained minister, animal lover, screenplay writer, story teller, film producer, a film director, speaker, etc., because his long list of his accomplishments never ends. Seriously, Dave is one highly intelligent, super talented or better said—"One amazing man!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After Tony took this photo of me with Dave Crowe and Gerry Olert—Dave gave me a signed copy of his book <b style="font-style: italic;">Cowboyin': Cowboy Poetry, Short Stories and a lot of other stuff</b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTsT2ljljUZWAgaD24VBp3luut7gtviLWjCbhiL2lz_wW5ayHpvB8AW2qLGxRahYQFl0cSuemKTjUYcT31OPTDhrm3GcNKuVT6npvqueV21OGjCJ1baWnYD_NHuN9Cee-lMW-hC5cszGNtt43sZME-UBf8uHh7BcC3uQ2Yc5EXm_JfHBDorNhyje51g/s576/croweolertme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTsT2ljljUZWAgaD24VBp3luut7gtviLWjCbhiL2lz_wW5ayHpvB8AW2qLGxRahYQFl0cSuemKTjUYcT31OPTDhrm3GcNKuVT6npvqueV21OGjCJ1baWnYD_NHuN9Cee-lMW-hC5cszGNtt43sZME-UBf8uHh7BcC3uQ2Yc5EXm_JfHBDorNhyje51g/w400-h266/croweolertme.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQC6IFlu-gelIzuI_LsBvsH5LLDFIaUY797kOrelnYKtTQifDF_fBMj-5L-PlHi5MxfASPV7J3hLmiXc2S_1xhBlgsI5cJzsgK8kCikFCqcu2seCiXUgYTUM_SKchFLTC0e1wKJ_5-ROAY-nqRtz5HYyzOGTodpPkdIo3Qqnhit2pSub9nEAr0AvIXhA/s1476/cowboyin'.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1476" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQC6IFlu-gelIzuI_LsBvsH5LLDFIaUY797kOrelnYKtTQifDF_fBMj-5L-PlHi5MxfASPV7J3hLmiXc2S_1xhBlgsI5cJzsgK8kCikFCqcu2seCiXUgYTUM_SKchFLTC0e1wKJ_5-ROAY-nqRtz5HYyzOGTodpPkdIo3Qqnhit2pSub9nEAr0AvIXhA/s320/cowboyin'.jpg" width="234" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And you can find his books on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dave+crowe&i=stripbooks&crid=18QUG7XWRQ9G1&sprefix=dave+crowe%2Cstripbooks%2C116&ref=nb_sb_noss" target="_blank"><b>Amazon</b></a> and at our dear friend, <a href="https://www.spiritsoftexasbandera.com" target="_blank"><b>Nancy Harvey's store</b>—<b>Spirits Of Texas</b></a>, at 1107 Cypress Street, in Bandera, Texas. And here are a few more titles of his awesome books to look for:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Ridin' Life's Many Trails</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>A Tale of Early Texas: Chanlers Crossing</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Texas Hill Country Sage: Hank</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>The Adventure of Billy Joe McLister</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you would like to listen to this podcast please <b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207" target="_blank">click here</a></b> or click on the sidebar near the top of this page. And before I go please always <b>Remember The Alamo</b>! And please always remember my favorite quote that I came up with: "Life is short and so am I."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Y'all take care and keep on laughing!</div></div></div><p></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-24660018476313206492022-09-13T18:01:00.001-05:002022-09-13T18:01:22.781-05:00Episode 21: Garrison Mulemanship & Training! or Mules Rule!<p> Today has been great and I absolutely loved interviewing <b>Paul & Alejandra Garrison</b>. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span style="color: #535353; font-family: times;">In this fun episode I had a wonderful time interviewing this famous couple, Paul Garrison and his beautiful wife, Alejandra, who work as individuals or as a team training mules and their people. In other words, or their words to be exact:</span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(6, 6, 6); color: #060606;"><span style="font-family: times;">"Mule school for the mule and his/her human. Offering training for the mule and the human in order for them to have a more harmonious relationship!"</span></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Tony has known his good friend, Paul Garrison, since they were kids going to school, in Medina. Paul & Alejandra are professional mule/people trainers and they are known worldwide for their outstanding skills and knowledge of training mules and teaching "mule-people" everything that there is to know concerning mules.</span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Paul and Alejandra have and will travel worldwide doing clinics for groups of mule lovers and by appointment only people can bring this couple their mules for some one-on-one instructions and Alejandra & Paul will also travel to help individuals learn mulemanship and the art of training these magnificent anim</span><span style="font-family: times;">als.</span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">For more information please check them out on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Garrisonmulemanship/" target="_blank">Garrison Mulemanship & Training on FaceBook.</a></b></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Or watch them on the <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfz3bqGxizE" target="_blank">Texas Country Reporter here</a>.</b></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">To listen to this podcast please <b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/11313091-episode-21-garrison-mulemanship-training-or-mules-rule" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></b> or on <b>The Cousin Nancy Show</b> located near the top of the sidebar.</span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">After doing the super fun and interesting podcast we went outside before they left and posed for Tony.</span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #535353; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswIb7rZ5M5xxZDPTq0lK4EBSM-IQaonmN8PyTzGGJ6gNLmtG-kkkjk5vQD1bKZafGghgf0OCvjvXoqHfzzag1e9Wj5doCHaA229kWcQZgSQj6FXLvjuTavtW9elTMNEMLSttMgmoZCUBrRuQpbkVhsxAiemAUV-Pzar3NKmBF687RMwR2PXdRY5fDng/s576/garrisons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="576" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjswIb7rZ5M5xxZDPTq0lK4EBSM-IQaonmN8PyTzGGJ6gNLmtG-kkkjk5vQD1bKZafGghgf0OCvjvXoqHfzzag1e9Wj5doCHaA229kWcQZgSQj6FXLvjuTavtW9elTMNEMLSttMgmoZCUBrRuQpbkVhsxAiemAUV-Pzar3NKmBF687RMwR2PXdRY5fDng/w400-h253/garrisons.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(83, 83, 83); color: #535353;">Before I go I want to thank the Garrison's for doing the podcast with me today. And lastly, please never forget my favorite quote: Life is short and so am I!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(83, 83, 83); color: #535353;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(83, 83, 83); color: #535353;">Y'all take care and keep on laughing! Mules Rule!</span></div><p></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-65335378807835539752022-08-31T17:54:00.006-05:002022-08-31T18:21:37.081-05:00Episode: 20: Heart Cycles!<p><span style="background-color: white;">I had a blast doing this podcast yesterday. <span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;">In this super fun and interesting podcast I interviewed Tony's and my dear friends </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;">Jay Pennington</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;"> and </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;">Gerry Olert</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;"> of </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;">Olert & Pennington Productions</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;"> about their latest award-winning feature film </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;">Heart Cycles</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;">. And please note Gerry is on the left and Jay is on the right side of the photo.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzf1YuKnzXlw6yGzRquoSyFmpWLNl-_lbRbNIanb2E6oAZz9UiGuHTMWv7Ea0Lida-KU9IRi6lGHO8ywuUVWtOtzMaVHZXTcO6ctWR0tOCrB_HghFsqh2758jtE4wmU-1riTsDPQ02ckVX8f7qQBzMg9ZGforTNK9wpEPfW7Q-69qMzSd5d5frfzP2g/s598/jaygerrypictsawards.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="526" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzf1YuKnzXlw6yGzRquoSyFmpWLNl-_lbRbNIanb2E6oAZz9UiGuHTMWv7Ea0Lida-KU9IRi6lGHO8ywuUVWtOtzMaVHZXTcO6ctWR0tOCrB_HghFsqh2758jtE4wmU-1riTsDPQ02ckVX8f7qQBzMg9ZGforTNK9wpEPfW7Q-69qMzSd5d5frfzP2g/w351-h400/jaygerrypictsawards.jpeg" width="351" /></a></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Jay and Gerry are known for making fabulous films on shoestring budgets that are high quality films that win many awards. In fact, last year </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">I</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> actually played a small part acting like a crazy, old woman who spends most of her time stacking rocks when not worrying about her outlaw son— in </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Vinegar To Honey</b><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> soon to be released.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">In this episode, between my corny jokes, my friends discuss their backgrounds, how they met and how they work so well together. And they also talked about the multi-talented actors/actresses and the awesome music score that has made </span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Heart Cycles </b><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">a must-see feature film</span><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6_9TFx4miNWxcDx8BCR0vVFjYRWsqzGKKnGoFay30t3BUuAF_1oV6w8THw1bOJeus_6GpY2PXOIVQuNasVhypFZ1Hqgln1TyQeS6zn4oimwHexvGzPlDyr_koUwKLzE-ebF6fP-E2to_IWpUdSDfR2QpuqL2METUJemuZn3lF779KeyB1Z7rVlldCQ/s1600/heartcycles.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6_9TFx4miNWxcDx8BCR0vVFjYRWsqzGKKnGoFay30t3BUuAF_1oV6w8THw1bOJeus_6GpY2PXOIVQuNasVhypFZ1Hqgln1TyQeS6zn4oimwHexvGzPlDyr_koUwKLzE-ebF6fP-E2to_IWpUdSDfR2QpuqL2METUJemuZn3lF779KeyB1Z7rVlldCQ/w270-h400/heartcycles.jpeg" width="270" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAuFzZYUCJRXnOmBTnuRTFlFuArQhE-DWDVSmEN89jieFHbXR-o3QEisxyjHPQG_H2m1oFzdeAMf-diMpkFIO70dfN_Q2VImFZTi6mTY9v8I6-BdtHI7pgwjHDDZ5H1_DnUUULY17ztv_nUnrKJnBeh0CiS2-3OmExidyIVuL0a6oGQTk55oqLrT-t_g/s1080/jaymoviepict.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1080" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAuFzZYUCJRXnOmBTnuRTFlFuArQhE-DWDVSmEN89jieFHbXR-o3QEisxyjHPQG_H2m1oFzdeAMf-diMpkFIO70dfN_Q2VImFZTi6mTY9v8I6-BdtHI7pgwjHDDZ5H1_DnUUULY17ztv_nUnrKJnBeh0CiS2-3OmExidyIVuL0a6oGQTk55oqLrT-t_g/s320/jaymoviepict.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Also after I told a corny joke about a pony I reminded Jay about the two of us both getting pictures taken of us on the same pony even though Jay's photo was taken in his front yard, in San Antonio and mine was taken in my front yard, in Fort Worth. I guess you could say at the time, "It was a small world for a small pony."</div><b style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ8x5BZTFsNYcYorAluWvFl95A09Rh3nLLO5ywja4Dt5SoEWN0MbsMeDr2NcJxx0C2fTGaRGTKw1B508wi9UxJTKmenK-YCMMZJOamWgcurrDBGKbqOe41bPwCyfLAU67Bj5vWxNlQflGyx52P67XJQGlbZNMpnEmoNs-ukv0oAo-MNuLVCDCPKz36AQ/s400/jaypony.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="279" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ8x5BZTFsNYcYorAluWvFl95A09Rh3nLLO5ywja4Dt5SoEWN0MbsMeDr2NcJxx0C2fTGaRGTKw1B508wi9UxJTKmenK-YCMMZJOamWgcurrDBGKbqOe41bPwCyfLAU67Bj5vWxNlQflGyx52P67XJQGlbZNMpnEmoNs-ukv0oAo-MNuLVCDCPKz36AQ/s320/jaypony.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwINZGiIzi2xCPOSARvHdn5isNY377HOsxJGpYSACRcOcGZC0FQbwScCqPV7vvQrhmVDdqR7DwHfgyU87FC5SasfmBTg5VxAhQq65R51x0thPXdmg3C3Xm42H97vs01mNworRGnInPxsiHvWHLH7FEwjEt7XTLt74fVkitcKcWFlfYi5fX8qRGZUvJLQ/s400/nancypony.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwINZGiIzi2xCPOSARvHdn5isNY377HOsxJGpYSACRcOcGZC0FQbwScCqPV7vvQrhmVDdqR7DwHfgyU87FC5SasfmBTg5VxAhQq65R51x0thPXdmg3C3Xm42H97vs01mNworRGnInPxsiHvWHLH7FEwjEt7XTLt74fVkitcKcWFlfYi5fX8qRGZUvJLQ/s320/nancypony.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">To listen to this podcast please <b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/11230772-episode-20-heart-cycles" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></b> or near the top of the sidebar on the left. And </span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: times;">please always remember my favorite quote, "Life is short and so am I!" </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmWAiRy7-FiJVJwg0aZJZQTaH3QRTlGSika1DB_eTbVDP2F9WLAyUyrAW2GzQaEJxFdhGo4c00LoaQBRUDeLotElve5Mn1kcWEN6q4YJ-4N93XU0jPikKU4dJfRrp4WfMNoSSFBvSS_-8JteAcU6WD2UDvJECfuCoKI0eOmAUvW6pWCyCsJvjtnu1x6Q/s576/the3ofus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="576" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmWAiRy7-FiJVJwg0aZJZQTaH3QRTlGSika1DB_eTbVDP2F9WLAyUyrAW2GzQaEJxFdhGo4c00LoaQBRUDeLotElve5Mn1kcWEN6q4YJ-4N93XU0jPikKU4dJfRrp4WfMNoSSFBvSS_-8JteAcU6WD2UDvJECfuCoKI0eOmAUvW6pWCyCsJvjtnu1x6Q/w400-h217/the3ofus.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Y'all take care and keep on laughing!<br /></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">P.S. Please check out Jay and Gerry on Facebook, too! And please give Heart Cycles a review on Instagram and Twitter, etc.</span></span></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-26744790324539734402022-08-17T18:00:00.005-05:002022-09-05T11:05:56.150-05:00Episode 19: Remembering The Alamo With Fourth Coates! or Duck And Cover!<p><span style="background-color: white;">Today has been a</span><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;"> blast, because I was lucky enough to interview my and Tony's dear friend <b>Fourth Coates</b>. And you can see why we love Fourth so much by listening to this entertaining interview with Fourth telling one funny story after another. And with me often cutting in to tell a few jokes.</span></p><p><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">Fourth kept Tony and I laughing with his hilarious stories about growing up on a ranch, in South Texas.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbEQ83NIeaGR1xsfPBRWkzgwc4_nmQS1DcrrD74SkO604OTrwbtfyQhf7MCwDtol8ABqb1p4ZWaRXpZ-hws3Jg8AqAoj8TYxfAGS-d_2xBgsueK4GNoA_LtxS9ND-gieosa2TR5NxL_WsOec0FKgeEK1WV071DuFHyoI59Ity7X77meVRPEW0MeIN3VA/s576/fourth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbEQ83NIeaGR1xsfPBRWkzgwc4_nmQS1DcrrD74SkO604OTrwbtfyQhf7MCwDtol8ABqb1p4ZWaRXpZ-hws3Jg8AqAoj8TYxfAGS-d_2xBgsueK4GNoA_LtxS9ND-gieosa2TR5NxL_WsOec0FKgeEK1WV071DuFHyoI59Ity7X77meVRPEW0MeIN3VA/w400-h266/fourth.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3FuxUmCEgcDXItYrPqna7yQrnRr8957g4yGH75VvZ5vYml0pLJOZFVHMmedHneQmqFcIaNDNBYxRv3ltn13qcOwCwefkCaAulZ0M-fCGUtKrGyqhkeEHPvzDSwEywIbJhC0bOx5g3D7mhnOabdn2eOVWwffMiIPZ9I7aMUQXK6A0NByB4gWbxVTE4yg/s576/mefourth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3FuxUmCEgcDXItYrPqna7yQrnRr8957g4yGH75VvZ5vYml0pLJOZFVHMmedHneQmqFcIaNDNBYxRv3ltn13qcOwCwefkCaAulZ0M-fCGUtKrGyqhkeEHPvzDSwEywIbJhC0bOx5g3D7mhnOabdn2eOVWwffMiIPZ9I7aMUQXK6A0NByB4gWbxVTE4yg/w400-h266/mefourth.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsmGceneU076n29tFCz9xENfBQXDNX_MdJlkrhZh54YzrMmeF-4ulvsC9Z3FLcQrPY-p-3eCoQ8aUTjcjS4O0AdK_V6n0QHbHen75n0m264GaoC55ZojtLTAszlW9nocR_DjT9L53cdjSoJgK8htTcudMipFcLPmoFszvDILdZXlaA0CYLIy_0HH6vw/s576/fourthandme.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqsmGceneU076n29tFCz9xENfBQXDNX_MdJlkrhZh54YzrMmeF-4ulvsC9Z3FLcQrPY-p-3eCoQ8aUTjcjS4O0AdK_V6n0QHbHen75n0m264GaoC55ZojtLTAszlW9nocR_DjT9L53cdjSoJgK8htTcudMipFcLPmoFszvDILdZXlaA0CYLIy_0HH6vw/w400-h266/fourthandme.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To listen to my <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/11155354-episode-19-remembering-the-alamo-with-fourth-coates" target="_blank">Episode 19</a>th podcast: Remembering The Alamo With Fourth Coates please <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/11155354-episode-19-remembering-the-alamo-with-fourth-coates" target="_blank">Click Here</a> or up on the sidebar—<b>The Cousin Nancy Show.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank y'all for listening and take care and keep on laughing!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">9/4/2022 Update:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is a photo of Fourth's 4th grade class that "Saw the <i><b>bomb</b></i> and lived to tell about it!" And please note that Fourth is standing top row left of George.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKz04MF0UQ6agyUMszqGCM-gEJZWIY-15qqHbjgDgQw8Wc_q0PdGQe-4E4cWJrRsxHz1XM-YZ0On1_0QqHMyFdh00GnTXvk8rjK5B59DUmwwyRKJrbaT8Wm1dE4mhQ-xm52rMNgQn-uFDLPY27zD0r671Zg001_jmGAEUFIn194g5UTyIg134SWd8tA/s640/fourth4thgrade.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKz04MF0UQ6agyUMszqGCM-gEJZWIY-15qqHbjgDgQw8Wc_q0PdGQe-4E4cWJrRsxHz1XM-YZ0On1_0QqHMyFdh00GnTXvk8rjK5B59DUmwwyRKJrbaT8Wm1dE4mhQ-xm52rMNgQn-uFDLPY27zD0r671Zg001_jmGAEUFIn194g5UTyIg134SWd8tA/w400-h300/fourth4thgrade.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-45208921264001223922022-07-30T18:29:00.000-05:002022-07-30T18:29:08.662-05:00Episode 18: The Phill Brush Interview!<p>I had such a great time doing my 18th podcast with Tony's and my dear friend, singer/songwriter <b>Phill Brush.</b> Tony and I have known Phill for over 20 years and he is one super talented man.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEignlVig74hNTztvc6MkiJFrT-TKEPngEO8Ao3tw4KoTKszVxH_ntUCQHwPPpz_0tGn4FptZctCzAzQxGZ7YU8i8gTrp78gIFaxeQLZBMVlMnBQ-Jj-2uQzc_8Tw0JqfjRlwC3CxAS5gmlPkQL_qqO3n9YFp1DdiWeinvtYhKZ1OFwaLkcS-2ng-cWU-A/s648/phillme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="648" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEignlVig74hNTztvc6MkiJFrT-TKEPngEO8Ao3tw4KoTKszVxH_ntUCQHwPPpz_0tGn4FptZctCzAzQxGZ7YU8i8gTrp78gIFaxeQLZBMVlMnBQ-Jj-2uQzc_8Tw0JqfjRlwC3CxAS5gmlPkQL_qqO3n9YFp1DdiWeinvtYhKZ1OFwaLkcS-2ng-cWU-A/w400-h233/phillme.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPTFHOPCMqmoYzk6ddWc0xKwgIUwApCi6uhqJ_QF1bp1nq8tptvNIyb9kTkbKpMToVSrrd4TN5kBMU1IgWDpXkAgMp5cMftNvJyHkrd7MVp1qcSMrsHbIE_UASl4CZ6wNrMbraocj8jybbfYAKidRRzIBbiRrc4mMRksYJCE3Kv2MEUivlHKSH2qkBw/s2700/philpose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2700" data-original-width="1800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPTFHOPCMqmoYzk6ddWc0xKwgIUwApCi6uhqJ_QF1bp1nq8tptvNIyb9kTkbKpMToVSrrd4TN5kBMU1IgWDpXkAgMp5cMftNvJyHkrd7MVp1qcSMrsHbIE_UASl4CZ6wNrMbraocj8jybbfYAKidRRzIBbiRrc4mMRksYJCE3Kv2MEUivlHKSH2qkBw/w266-h400/philpose.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyTZnZ24fucNoXkxQ6xOq_-XoiUGGXSrI3Bl-9luAGuuVopfQymdMGlJKfXhpWJCjYQPWsyrpdbnuN5M5O2mdvjpfvgpUOtNOVMgrHFFNZ4Yyv08cZLJ9_-a_Y7CqI8pr2fWXjJjW-jaACb6Tct7Qp7Xm4mLkUCqdOOBtJSllVS5Lfs8BW-0rDqkeLLQ/s2400/phillhorse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2400" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyTZnZ24fucNoXkxQ6xOq_-XoiUGGXSrI3Bl-9luAGuuVopfQymdMGlJKfXhpWJCjYQPWsyrpdbnuN5M5O2mdvjpfvgpUOtNOVMgrHFFNZ4Yyv08cZLJ9_-a_Y7CqI8pr2fWXjJjW-jaACb6Tct7Qp7Xm4mLkUCqdOOBtJSllVS5Lfs8BW-0rDqkeLLQ/w400-h266/phillhorse.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p>In this fun to listen to podcast Phill and I talked about many subjects including his valuable work volunteering, at Kinky Friedman's and his sister Marcie Friedman's <b><a href="https://echohill.org" target="_blank">Echo Hill Gold Star Camp</a>. </b>And I gave a Cousin Boomer update and Phill and I traded a few good jokes.</p><p>Phill sang us three beautiful songs that he has written and he talked about the Western Express Band's new CD that is being released next week. And to find out more about <b><a href="https://www.thewesternexpress.band/epk" target="_blank">Phill Brush and the Western Express</a> band</b> please <b><a href="https://www.thewesternexpress.band/epk" target="_blank">click here</a>.</b></p><p>To listen to <b>The Cousin Nancy Show</b>'s 18th podcast<b> please <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/11050406-episode-18-interview-with-phill-brush" target="_blank">click here</a> </b>or on the upper left sidebar.</p><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Here are some upcoming August play dates for the <b><a href="https://www.thewesternexpress.band">Western Express Band</a>:</b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">July 31 Austin TX <a href="https://gueros.com" target="_blank"><b>Guero's Taco Bar</b></a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">August 3 Bertram, TX <a href="http://www.globetheatretx.com" target="_blank"><b>The Globe Theatre</b></a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">August 4 Austin, TX <b> <a href="https://www.brokenspokeaustintx.net" target="_blank">Broken Spoke</a></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">August 5 Austin, TX <a href="https://www.samstownpointatx.com" target="_blank"><b>Sam's Town Point</b></a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">August 6 Kerrville, TX <a href="8/6-https://trailheadbeergarden.com/events" target="_blank"> <b>Trailhead Beer Garden</b></a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">August 7 Helotes, TX <a href="https://www.liveatfloores.com/event/dine-and-dance-free-4/" target="_blank"> <b>John T. Floore's Country Store</b></a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">August 17 Austin, TX <a href="https://www.brokenspokeaustintx.net" target="_blank"><b> Broken Spoke</b></a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">And Bluegrass every Saturday (in the summer) <a href="https://jesterkingbrewery.com/event/weekly-live-music-2" target="_blank"><b>Jester King</b></a> in Dripping Springs, TX</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">To find out more information on Phill Brush and his music please check him out on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PhillBrush/" target="_blank"><b>Facebook</b></a> and <b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5gYDLx2XRMwp9HicJCy5Sn" target="_blank">Spotify!</a></b></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Thank y'all for listening to my podcasts. Take care and keep on laughing!</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><ol><li style="color: #17191d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #0d537f;"></span></li></ol></div>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-58336565863302712942022-07-09T01:29:00.002-05:002022-07-10T16:27:28.178-05:00Episode 17: Boone Holding! or Whosboone.com!<p>Omg, last Tuesday was more than a blast for me, because I did a super-fun podcast with our dear friend, <b>Boone Holding</b>. And we recorded the podcast live at, The Last Resort (aka my kitchen) studio, located on Big Foot Ranch. And<b> Tony</b> & <b>Henry Standing Bear</b> (our awesome Lab/Great Pyrenees mix) were our attentive audience.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7wjqdT20fXGkNyRrY6vwU6ebWip-oi501QbjVUkZ9do3TPO1A44nnHEwTAyvebOER8ivGmUeMmk3-X7VovqHf_ylIahciuoKGd7rr-2H0JlXoXb9ui1A1h72a9o0LbOY6cOhXciNaC8oIjnyEuRxhMQiZrbht2qe_xJ1AINyZuyP_vPHoZEcOSNiSgQ/s576/3meboone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7wjqdT20fXGkNyRrY6vwU6ebWip-oi501QbjVUkZ9do3TPO1A44nnHEwTAyvebOER8ivGmUeMmk3-X7VovqHf_ylIahciuoKGd7rr-2H0JlXoXb9ui1A1h72a9o0LbOY6cOhXciNaC8oIjnyEuRxhMQiZrbht2qe_xJ1AINyZuyP_vPHoZEcOSNiSgQ/w400-h266/3meboone.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">During the interview we talked about Boone's popular podcast "<b>More Than The Music</b>," which he has done over 100 podcasts compared to my 17 podcasts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In his <b>"More Than The Music"</b> podcast, Boone Holding explores being a Hippie Cowboy in the Texas Hill Country. He also interviews Texas artist and discusses being a growing artist himself. And his "More Than The Music" podcast is available on <b>Google Play Music, Apple Music and Spotify</b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Boone played his guitar and sang us three of his songs that he has written and we loved each and everyone of them. Boone told us that his latest song <b><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7kymbNwgLCIhXWFEJ9tQnP?highlight=spotify:track:2eVMrAhxk9woBGHqMlASmh" target="_blank">Cornfield High</a></b>, which is one of our favorites, is now available to listen to on Spotify! So please check it out and give it a thumbs up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Boone Holding loves writing songs and performing them and he told me that he is already playing over 100 gigs a year all over the country. And I love Boone's quote, "I'd die on my feet, before I'd live on my knees. I guess that's the Hippie half of the cowboy in me."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">During the podcast I did a Cousin Boomer update and we told a few jokes. Then we talked about Boone performing regularly, at the <b><a href="https://www.medinariveroaks.com" target="_blank">River Oaks Court</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.escondidaresort.com" target="_blank">Escondida Resort & Spa</a></b>, both located in Medina. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then we talked about him being a radio host and performing for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/texasrebelradio/" target="_blank"><b>KFAN Texas Rebel Radio 107.9 FM</b> </a>and other radio shows. And here are a couple of pictures that Tony took a few weeks ago of Boone playing, at Medina's popular <b>River Oaks Court's Social Club</b>. And needless to say—"Boone owned that audience and no one wanted him to quit singing."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJR86P9A-AIJvrkaS3c1LOUsL9yiWE4pRLYTH7097HmWdWiq6RrM88nXRuiFKIf5WK96hiYPF3OpogPZl70--JbnCwigM9U4hhDEYYCGFNbs2yDvmLBxNjsI6-qB1JnkUbcU8cxU3TSqVfdbpNIXDNXSdCCEq-xZbZANgnu6E-Ug_kuJjaXu-tQlbUPg/s576/1boonesocial.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJR86P9A-AIJvrkaS3c1LOUsL9yiWE4pRLYTH7097HmWdWiq6RrM88nXRuiFKIf5WK96hiYPF3OpogPZl70--JbnCwigM9U4hhDEYYCGFNbs2yDvmLBxNjsI6-qB1JnkUbcU8cxU3TSqVfdbpNIXDNXSdCCEq-xZbZANgnu6E-Ug_kuJjaXu-tQlbUPg/w400-h266/1boonesocial.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXYrayhFAs_2jcT9AENO_MNyXnxHfj0JhB7Gp6tLtaFsr1TgYgpXWedIqBj76yNrPHKPwjmc2tJIrPtckiBFSN1dIgne0aIX1U8-ZY8h4kZAbKKR6fStJGAsejeeAWVJAOshxdPcGCm__bf6OwL0BYUk9wlah1moX6GkLxAWdILDATwHyMKRF9mXNXBg/s576/2booneclub.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXYrayhFAs_2jcT9AENO_MNyXnxHfj0JhB7Gp6tLtaFsr1TgYgpXWedIqBj76yNrPHKPwjmc2tJIrPtckiBFSN1dIgne0aIX1U8-ZY8h4kZAbKKR6fStJGAsejeeAWVJAOshxdPcGCm__bf6OwL0BYUk9wlah1moX6GkLxAWdILDATwHyMKRF9mXNXBg/w400-h266/2booneclub.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Boone and I also talked about his beautiful family and the benefits about him and his lovely wife Liz home-schooling their super-cool kids. And their garden, chickens, etc.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway, Tony and I love <b>Boone Holding</b> and his family. And to find out more about this talented singer/songwriter, musician, podcaster, family man, radio host, gardner, chicken farmer etc. this is his website:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.whosboone.com">www.whosboone.com</a> </b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Where you can also check out his podcast and his fabulous music, etc.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZKvPU6zwpMYuXA7Jn1MMIh4SdbU2eYcALk5-hZifrLu1ZRkKZtYE3d3DMcswwRT5iG_EF4L0-8OygKulLg01Rct2BAOobU5QFH0577XF6d2ObVK5LdLieuqhWeYc75pHNRZaMJb19CWezlK2aleAKzw5x1AZcTRBmPQ8IkY_TvQsfBBac5HDKs8RMA/s576/4booneandme.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZKvPU6zwpMYuXA7Jn1MMIh4SdbU2eYcALk5-hZifrLu1ZRkKZtYE3d3DMcswwRT5iG_EF4L0-8OygKulLg01Rct2BAOobU5QFH0577XF6d2ObVK5LdLieuqhWeYc75pHNRZaMJb19CWezlK2aleAKzw5x1AZcTRBmPQ8IkY_TvQsfBBac5HDKs8RMA/w400-h266/4booneandme.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And to listen to <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10910764-episode-17-boone-holding-or-whosboone-com?t=0" target="_blank"><b>Boone Holding</b>, on <b>The Cousin Nancy Show </b>click here</a> or click on the sidebar, 2nd from the top—<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10910764-episode-17-boone-holding-or-whosboone-com?t=0" target="_blank">The Cousin Nancy Show.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Before I go I want to thank Boone for taking the time out of his busy schedule to do the podcast with me. And to also thank <b>Henry Standing Bear</b> for not barking once during the interview even though he kept passing gas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And lastly, please always remember my favorite quote: "Life is short and so am I!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Y'all take care and keep on laughing!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-33912454345654144802022-06-25T13:24:00.004-05:002022-06-25T13:36:53.591-05:00You're Kidding Me!<p>Today has been great and I have an exciting announcement to make, "As of three days ago I am writing my first <b>Kindle Vella</b> and the title is <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0B4YZNJGN?" target="_blank"><i>You're Kidding Me</i></a></b>. If you would like to check it out please just click on the title or you can click on it over on the sidebar. Or just <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0B4YZNJGN?" target="_blank">Click Here</a>.</b></p><p>I have only written two, 600 word episodes so far and I am having a blast writing it. It starts out with me being in New York City to sign some book contracts and I get mugged by a person shorter than me. And that is the only clue that I am giving you.</p><p>This is the artwork I chose for my Kindle Vella—<i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0B4YZNJGN?" target="_blank"><b>You're Kidding Me</b></a></i> and it is perfect, because there will be some ghosts and aliens in the ongoing, cliffhanger episodes.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtPna5Xyy-dFuShDb_O4zQS8xyAsh6m3HB3qzU3ZtCwX25EbM5jQJkYo6VWOPtt6h3MbXcV9tOGkpTq9B2Apn-iJeJdTJ_uykUYY0pacCat_S9Q0dThiHNznVtAa-Z3x1upIIuXksH2y9suuTsdDWZXEQCxe8KERc85PuBbYRTFP46MS8mVnNE4TlJCg/s1310/vellapictblog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtPna5Xyy-dFuShDb_O4zQS8xyAsh6m3HB3qzU3ZtCwX25EbM5jQJkYo6VWOPtt6h3MbXcV9tOGkpTq9B2Apn-iJeJdTJ_uykUYY0pacCat_S9Q0dThiHNznVtAa-Z3x1upIIuXksH2y9suuTsdDWZXEQCxe8KERc85PuBbYRTFP46MS8mVnNE4TlJCg/w275-h400/vellapictblog.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And this is what I wrote "About The Author" and I have already lied about my age:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="kv-bookerly, serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 47, 54); font-size: 16px;">Cousin Nancy is a sixty-nine-year-old, cowgirl that loves animals more than she loves people, except for her husband Tony Simons. He spends most of his time photographing nature and gardening. Cousin Nancy spends her time writing, helping animals, hunting ghosts and waiting for aliens to arrive, while listening to her favorite music from the 60's and 70's. Her favorite musician is Neil Young and his album Harvest Moon debuted when she was a part-time hippie living in Crested Butte, Colorado.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And as a teaser—here is a little peek inside (Just the first three paragraphs) of Episode 1...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Well, today has totally sucked," I confessed to my best friend Judy, over the phone, as I poured myself a second glass of cheap, boxed red wine.</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Now Nance settle down," Judy said, cheerfully. "It's your first day in New York City and you've only been there since this morning. It can't be all that bad."</span></p>
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<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Well, it is," I said, as I locked my hotel door and then fastened the flimsy, silver, linked chain that was "Added For Your Extra Security." Then I swallowed a sip of wine, took a deep breath and held it for over ten-seconds, and then as I exhaled I said, "Trust me. Today has been worse than bad and I cannot wait to check out of this hotel tomorrow and get back to Texas where I belong. I'm missing Tony and our animals..." </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hope that y'all will wish me luck with my new writing endeavor and if you do like my Kindle Vella please check the box if you want to follow me and giving me a thumbs up would be nice also. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And please note: I will still be doing monthly podcasts.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Y'all have a great day and keep on laughing!</div>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-71402729964113260592022-06-22T17:16:00.002-05:002022-06-23T17:47:20.471-05:00Episode 16: Never Tell A Lie (To Jean Weber)! or Knit-Wit!<p> Today has been great. This afternoon I did a super fun podcast with Tony's and my dear friend Jean Weber.</p><p>We first met Jean on November 14, 2016, when Tony and I walked into Wolfmueller's Books looking for Sandy to help me finish tying off my unfinished, pink potholder. Needless to say Sandy and Jon were gone and Jon's sister, Jean, an accomplished knitter, was "holding down the fort for them" and she tied it off for me instead.</p><p>Long story short, to refresh your memory, you can read all about that famous potholder that I wrote about in my November 14th, 2016 blog post, "The One And Only!" <a href="https://cousinnancy.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-one-and-only.html" target="_blank">Here</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQbL1ftQAWuBNLPe-JLoddYieoH6hJubrI6ZLzoR7jQEP--icIa5jwa-Xo3sZ_7mNF6K572QuCIbIO0RsjLpzguVUKx4diDmxFIw7JODElkWtDLfr72cOyCbjWMJjlV9_jG01BvVe74HxDCx_main4Wf7yz3cnwTlMrDrzGD5bltTz1ZHGVNF4Pu7bQ/s400/unfinished.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="400" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQbL1ftQAWuBNLPe-JLoddYieoH6hJubrI6ZLzoR7jQEP--icIa5jwa-Xo3sZ_7mNF6K572QuCIbIO0RsjLpzguVUKx4diDmxFIw7JODElkWtDLfr72cOyCbjWMJjlV9_jG01BvVe74HxDCx_main4Wf7yz3cnwTlMrDrzGD5bltTz1ZHGVNF4Pu7bQ/s320/unfinished.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsrnwHVyNotdUlWIyMEdOJA8oeGEwX8NKVJoDQ5glc12MG3RTnnPs0JGKN6sQWSvPNowt2U3K_y7hv8tQiNs6ulIFhNFo8vqY6XzV6F5RcETUUTLribPrrwl-nnjrYVqobFZd9gu_sgQoRR9YTaiQfIz8p-mgEzxxJoQWbKQ27wosBiFZCZnzRWaBpg/s400/jean.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOsrnwHVyNotdUlWIyMEdOJA8oeGEwX8NKVJoDQ5glc12MG3RTnnPs0JGKN6sQWSvPNowt2U3K_y7hv8tQiNs6ulIFhNFo8vqY6XzV6F5RcETUUTLribPrrwl-nnjrYVqobFZd9gu_sgQoRR9YTaiQfIz8p-mgEzxxJoQWbKQ27wosBiFZCZnzRWaBpg/s320/jean.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXM54P86f_RG9oD2UqAzOhhyw0h0NY2viCScRpugGqUzkBIxEDsU56Qu5ih0Fs9X07KWzyLyMgMxdqQX3rgBKWFZIJNjX8D9FQjKeODBwI_akFdH-LmjdW4Pp6cdJ0qJibEo9HGRfqdHyYOXC90hdTq6ic0vj0nf5zDfx1AqMH4xe5XHc3J6TXK97vew/s400/pinkpotholder.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="400" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXM54P86f_RG9oD2UqAzOhhyw0h0NY2viCScRpugGqUzkBIxEDsU56Qu5ih0Fs9X07KWzyLyMgMxdqQX3rgBKWFZIJNjX8D9FQjKeODBwI_akFdH-LmjdW4Pp6cdJ0qJibEo9HGRfqdHyYOXC90hdTq6ic0vj0nf5zDfx1AqMH4xe5XHc3J6TXK97vew/s320/pinkpotholder.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jean told us some great stories about her beloved cat Tiger and here are a few pictures of her beautiful feline companion who keeps things interesting for her.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJGcNZq63oykfNZG8TLeNt-2JeADnPxnXjkPAQ03-Tyg_GKIp0p-NX1yEy2NypWFP33c8Uapnzu-m4slh-12LG0eD42gNLs6czT-eNDB3vMu-P60NGdA2qpfZLpBsSgJfHWrp4bN8peNduTNqxdGx5HUIqTATr-5-yeGn4P_9EJe7CRXPkPDndKBrjAQ/s1327/tiger.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1327" data-original-width="869" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJGcNZq63oykfNZG8TLeNt-2JeADnPxnXjkPAQ03-Tyg_GKIp0p-NX1yEy2NypWFP33c8Uapnzu-m4slh-12LG0eD42gNLs6czT-eNDB3vMu-P60NGdA2qpfZLpBsSgJfHWrp4bN8peNduTNqxdGx5HUIqTATr-5-yeGn4P_9EJe7CRXPkPDndKBrjAQ/s320/tiger.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Y7mn6ZoKuTcDzBBU-rFG0GwF0XD7vfw0FZKbnolVHOlkXLkD87YfrnqHTRJwMjB5p5T8jVCxCQ6dohH4_fDgyJyGsCXIrtsTsXfpf-iMm7pf-UwKpykS2TDINGcD8ls1kEqcXMM0JRhpAnwsNGsMcEwnDjEHi2DydqkIwrEZ5i41Cul5X1zBiRTN3Q/s1280/tiger2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1124" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Y7mn6ZoKuTcDzBBU-rFG0GwF0XD7vfw0FZKbnolVHOlkXLkD87YfrnqHTRJwMjB5p5T8jVCxCQ6dohH4_fDgyJyGsCXIrtsTsXfpf-iMm7pf-UwKpykS2TDINGcD8ls1kEqcXMM0JRhpAnwsNGsMcEwnDjEHi2DydqkIwrEZ5i41Cul5X1zBiRTN3Q/s320/tiger2.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">Here's Paul!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvB2ubM9r5HT4PRAAvYFTYLHU4FVWiIOQA-zD9o86l65NGwDfOxhyiAthJ2H6N9zlEBMVeHB8nepwZup6LE62pWKEomfMsVITvIKGlm0KSQ6ABWJnN7m4fWdq-LgNlKAKhhHHLccD31Hk-2hwCzvgEvYNVfEE8KKHXs_rGa3iY8nen5eSf6wbISYciqg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhvB2ubM9r5HT4PRAAvYFTYLHU4FVWiIOQA-zD9o86l65NGwDfOxhyiAthJ2H6N9zlEBMVeHB8nepwZup6LE62pWKEomfMsVITvIKGlm0KSQ6ABWJnN7m4fWdq-LgNlKAKhhHHLccD31Hk-2hwCzvgEvYNVfEE8KKHXs_rGa3iY8nen5eSf6wbISYciqg=w237-h320" width="237" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This 20 minute podcast episode was so much fun to do with Jean and I hope that it will make you laugh as much as I did. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To listen to the podcast please <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10838826-episode-16-never-tell-a-lie-to-jean-weber-or-knit-wit?t=0" target="_blank"><b>click here</b></a> or click on<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10838826-episode-16-never-tell-a-lie-to-jean-weber-or-knit-wit?t=0" target="_blank">The Cousin Nancy Show</a> near the top of the sidebar on this page.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Y'all take care and keep on laughing!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">P.S. Sandy & Jon—Happy 49th Anniversary tomorrow!</div>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-71428170906177807562022-04-10T15:12:00.001-05:002022-04-10T17:32:08.975-05:00Horsepower!<p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, I have just finished doing my 15th podcast for The Cousin Nancy Show and I've titled it Horsepower! Here is a transcript of it(after my introduction) in case you would rather read it than listen to me. I do hope that you enjoy listening to it and I do hope that it makes you laugh at least once.</span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please Note: <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10413074-episode-15-horsepower" target="_blank">Please click here to listen</a> to it or click on The Cousin Nancy Show on the right side bar. </span>A few weeks ago Cousin Boomer called me and he was all upset about something as usual. So I invited him to come over to drink a beer with Tony and me—in hopes of helping to calm him down. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">First off before I go any further with this Boomer update you need to know that Boomer is Polish. I'm not Polish—but Boomer is. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway, he is very sensitive about Polish jokes, because as a young kid Cousin Boomer was constantly being teased and kidded about being Polish.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">So, when Boomer arrived at Big Foot Ranch he was so mad—he was spittin' nails, so to speak and he didn't want to talk about what had happened—until he had popped the top on his second, cold beer. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">This is basically what Boomer told us.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">"Today for lunch I ordered a Polish sausage from this guy," and he says, "Oh, you must be Polish."</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">"His assumption really pushed my button," Boomer says. "So, I decided to try to enlighten this know-it-all jerk, to let him know that his Polish comment was not appreciated."</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">"So I asked him, "You think because I ordered a Polish sausage—I'm Polish?"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">"Seriously, what if somebody came in here and ordered an English muffin? Would you think he was British?"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">"This guy just stood there, staring at me and he said nothing."</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Then I tell him, "What if somebody came in here and ordered Swedish meatballs? Would you automatically think he was a Swede?"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">"What if someone came in here and ordered Italian meatballs? Would that make him Italian?"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">"I was really on a roll and was really letting him have it, and I said, "Seriously man, what if someone came in here and ordered Canadian Bacon? Would that make him a Canadian?"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">"And by now I think this guy was finally getting my point."</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">So, I said, "So what if I ordered a Polish sausage. Why would that make you think that I am Polish.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And this guy cracks a little smile, and says, "Well first off—Welcome to Home Depot. Can I help you find something?"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">****************</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now this is a true story about a man and his Corvette and his name was George.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">In March of 1962, I was 10 years old and living in Fort Worth, Texas. And our next door neighbors were George & Wilma.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">They had two girls that were about the same age as Ronnie and me, so my brother and I used to play with them and our other neighborhood friend, Billy.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">We always had fun. We would climb trees together, walk fence rails, play touch football, baseball, have croquet tournaments, ride our bicycles around the neighborhood, etc. And we did this after school, on weekends and during the summer months.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway, one day while we were outside playing, in George & Wilma's back yard, Wilma came running outside and hollered, over the fence, to Mom & Dad, who were sitting out on the patio, drinking a beer, "George just won a Corvette convertible! Can you believe it! George won a Vette!…" </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Wilma was so excited over their good news it made all of us just as excited as she was, even though I had absolutely no clue as to what in the world she was talking about.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway, after Wilma had calmed herself down a little bit, she explained to my parents that George, whom my parents thought was a wimpy nerd, had won this Corvette in a drawing held at the grand opening of the Seminary South Shopping Center—Fort Worth's first mall.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Wilma told my parents that George was on his way home, so she could drive him to the Seminary South Shopping Center, to pick up his fancy, new sports car. And in all of her excitement she invited Billy, Ronnie and me to go with them, in their family station wagon.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">A few minutes later, as soon as George had pulled into their driveway, we quickly piled into the station wagon and took off. Their girls rode in the backseat and Billy, Ronnie and I had to ride in the back cargo area.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And I would say that this was probably about the time this Corvette story peaked for poor, old George.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Because George quickly found out that, "Yes," he had won a Corvette, but it was not actually a car—it was a miniature version of a red Corvette, convertible made for kids to drive and the weight limit for it was 100 pounds. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Needless to say George was more than disappointed, not because he weighed over 200 lbs. and would never be able to drive his own Vette.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">He was upset, because he knew that he would still be driving their old, station wagon back to work everyday, instead of America's favorite sports car.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">But us kids were all excited and thrilled, because none of us weighted over 100 pounds! And we could not wait to take George's Corvette out for a spin.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway, after two nice men from a local radio station had helped George load his Corvette, into the back of their station wagon—we drove home in silence. And to say the least, "Billy, Ronnie and I were a little bit cramped, but we never complained."</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">When we arrived back at George & Wilma's house all of the nearby neighbors had gathered, in their front yard, to celebrate George's good fortune and to see his new, shiny red, Corvette convertible. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And the neighbors' faces had all turned into frowns, by the time they had helped George drag his sports car, out of the back of the family's station wagon.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">A few days later on a Saturday, George filled up his Corvette's gas tank and let all of us take turns getting to drive it around the elementary school's parking lot. </span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">So to end this story on a positive note I guess it would be safe for me to say that I have driven a Corvette, even though it really wasn't a car.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And I bet that a few years later, after George and his family had moved away from our neighborhood, he would brag to his new neighbors that he had once owned a shiny, new, 1962 red, Corvette convertible.</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">***************************</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now it is time for a couple of Corvette jokes. So here goes:</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">I saw my boss pull up in a brand new Corvette. I said, "Wow that's a really nice car, boss!" He told me "thanks, and just remember you keep working hard every day and I'll be able to buy a second one!"</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;">****************************</span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Now here's a Corvette question. What do you call a Corvette following a Camaro at high speeds?</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Chevy Chase.</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Folks, thank y'all for listening and I do hope that my podcast made you laugh at least once. And please always remember my favorite quote: "Life is short and so am I!"</span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #262626; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Take care and keep on laughing!</span></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-13283698133502313882022-03-03T18:15:00.002-06:002022-03-03T22:31:55.020-06:00Episode 14: The Cravotta's Close Encounters of the Famous Kind!<p> I had one heck of a good time interviewing Tony's and my dear artists friends: <b>Liz & Jim Cravotta</b> for The Cousin Nancy Show's 14th episode.</p><p>Tony and I love Jim & Liz and we have know these two, extremely talented artist for nearly thirty years. Over the years the Cravotta's have helped out our <b>Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch</b> many times and they have even adopted a dog from us, Arkey Blue Heeler and they also helped us get many of our dogs adopted to great homes.</p><p>In this super fun interview I had with Liz & Jim they told one hilarious story after another about how they met, their first date, their world famous wedding, "The Great Hippie Wedding of 1975, in Montague County" and many other fascinating stories about their famous friend Burt Finger, Liz's close encounters with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Jim's close encounter with the Kennedys, etc. And we also discussed Liz's art and her fabulous cards and Jim's whimsical Bare Bones Sculptures.</p><p>At the end of the interview I suggested that everyone check out this blog, so they could see some of the Cravotta's world famous art and sculptures, their popular Space #42 inventory, at the <b>EAST END MARKET</b>, in Kerrville, owned by Cindy & Rick Burton and managed by their always smiling, friendly store manager Aislinn Byrne. Located @ 1712 Water Street (Between G Street and H Street). And please note that besides the Cravotta's Space #42 the East End Market also has all kinds of great collections in their huge building and some of the best vibes, in Kerrville. Please click<a href="https://www.facebook.com/eastendmarkettx/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank"> <b>here</b></a> to visit the East End Market website.</p><p>So let's begin shall we:</p><p>First, here are a couple of photos of Liz's awesome cards and a couple of pictures of Jim's whimsical Bare Bones Sculptures:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlSErGqRdI_iQG4BfnJQvad5Il85hEFd0OFfrvXp-9FdEC-d5PxAiKx8nYyQOAh90HOeN5AIj7_49TZdGStw7Ohu5H0Vh1G1p10MJe8AGqwXbqeulqCAir3jKWamMK1hwMHVJvl40VR-FVIAGRkOCJXdCW252zW_bB0CRtO8jBgy4tzoQHoQToigbtMg=s641" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="459" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlSErGqRdI_iQG4BfnJQvad5Il85hEFd0OFfrvXp-9FdEC-d5PxAiKx8nYyQOAh90HOeN5AIj7_49TZdGStw7Ohu5H0Vh1G1p10MJe8AGqwXbqeulqCAir3jKWamMK1hwMHVJvl40VR-FVIAGRkOCJXdCW252zW_bB0CRtO8jBgy4tzoQHoQToigbtMg=w286-h400" width="286" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And here are three pictures when we were at the Grey Goose Saloon shooting the final scenes of Longmire—Texas Style!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The first picture is Liz behind scene, holding up a prop. The second picture is of Liz & Jim talking with Little Debbie and me after the filming of Longmire—Texas Style. aThe 3rd shot is the entire cast and crew of Longmire—Texas Style that was taken on the steps of the Grey Goose Saloon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfDBtbkERkeziDr4v1QJidWJVBYfWUZKhlVstUoI9A9QFf5Q2-n5vMhF_yMmFoHBTl9x5cUdAqLu_MZtlf3yq5WQQqlWpkIHpC-GI0-LQJYq3M0Iiw_eJDQyXUa66QnR5UksBelaZOsL1Bl8OYtu6hIOLpjV0IzOv7xgUk6bjOAnuUApvmRxw2xaicUA=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfDBtbkERkeziDr4v1QJidWJVBYfWUZKhlVstUoI9A9QFf5Q2-n5vMhF_yMmFoHBTl9x5cUdAqLu_MZtlf3yq5WQQqlWpkIHpC-GI0-LQJYq3M0Iiw_eJDQyXUa66QnR5UksBelaZOsL1Bl8OYtu6hIOLpjV0IzOv7xgUk6bjOAnuUApvmRxw2xaicUA=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipimUzumfGsoWVbPhkfChjDFK6uS6jaGqKPotXJOcI6A71Jf3XlSABl_n3UG5CCpSvaRcDrwahYp-pr7MRVG-tkyscVXSKtSe0KReMShfyR3KCRq-dJvPkJQs3EnSQSLotFjhc8Qo8U6rXyt3QH6VQSDqHmEgYDNE-mLUSGk9FSxDjiPWOcqqzS0kJlA=s576" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipimUzumfGsoWVbPhkfChjDFK6uS6jaGqKPotXJOcI6A71Jf3XlSABl_n3UG5CCpSvaRcDrwahYp-pr7MRVG-tkyscVXSKtSe0KReMShfyR3KCRq-dJvPkJQs3EnSQSLotFjhc8Qo8U6rXyt3QH6VQSDqHmEgYDNE-mLUSGk9FSxDjiPWOcqqzS0kJlA=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXffdT_wvs3OwmSI_aZMZSiJUcOks7oFi8lWKjbbJzxDCtfll9SRB2CrxG0oHMhhFPJzNPrX5bStgira6BK_1xsvVDyVv0XlSwt408yibZ-H04wpIiNxSh7DESCPOywQ0M5HibEnOfMfqaa_2wyrUKVFMaHvv59MeOiUFoeVtzZkQ4jzdYplktIIxSyA=s576" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXffdT_wvs3OwmSI_aZMZSiJUcOks7oFi8lWKjbbJzxDCtfll9SRB2CrxG0oHMhhFPJzNPrX5bStgira6BK_1xsvVDyVv0XlSwt408yibZ-H04wpIiNxSh7DESCPOywQ0M5HibEnOfMfqaa_2wyrUKVFMaHvv59MeOiUFoeVtzZkQ4jzdYplktIIxSyA=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To listen to <b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10183898-episode-14-the-cravotta-s-close-encounters-of-the-famous-kind?t=0" target="_blank">The Cousin Nancy Show: Episode 14: The Cravotta's Close Encounters of the Famous Kind!</a></b> Please click <b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10183898-episode-14-the-cravotta-s-close-encounters-of-the-famous-kind?t=0" target="_blank">here </a></b>or near the top of the right-hand side bar.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I hope that y'all will enjoy the podcast and it will make you laugh at least once of twice. And please remember my favorite quote: "Life is short and so am I."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Y'all take care and keep on laughing!</div>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-69759035738159324262022-02-23T20:30:00.013-06:002022-02-24T10:27:31.386-06:00It's A Bird! It's A Plane! or The Pentagon!<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: center;">This is The Cousin Nancy Show transcription for my </b><b>Episode 13 (2-23-22) </b><b>It's A Bird! It's A Plane! or The Pentagon! podcast and I hope that you will enjoy it. To listen to it please click on The Cousin Nancy Show, on the side bar. Or please click below: </b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10133716-it-s-a-bird-it-s-a-plane-or-the-pentagon">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/10133716-it-s-a-bird-it-s-a-plane-or-the-pentagon</a></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b></b><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>Episode 13 (2-23-22)</b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><b>IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE! or The Pentagon!</b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: center;"><b></b><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Today I am going to tell you a funny story about my dear friend <b>Henry B. Gonzalez</b>, from Austin, Texas who passed away a few years ago. But 1st, before I do that I want to give you a Cousin Boomer update.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>COUSIN BOOMER UPDATE:</b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A few weeks ago Cousin Boomer came over, because he needed to borrow a ladder from us, which I wasn't real thrilled about, because he is prone to accidents, because he isn't the brightest crayon in the box.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When he arrived both of his ears were bandaged, so Tony asked him what happened to your ears?</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Boomer told him "the other day is was ironing my Wranglers when the phone rang and by accident I picked up the iron instead of the phone."</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then I asked him "What happened to your other ear?"</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And he said, "As soon as I put it down—it rang again." </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>The title of this episode is: It's A Bird, It's a Plane! or The Pentagon!</b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In 1986, My late husband, Jim, and I had an embroidery business in Austin, Texas or better said in Westlake, Texas. The wealthiest neighborhood surrounded by Austin.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It was a fun business and we usually had to work 7 days a week just to keep up with the demand, because we had so much business. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The best part or most fun part of our business was working with <b>celebrities, musicians, artists, the film industry, night clubs & bars, radio stations, etc.</b> And not to brag, but to brag we did business with the <b>University of Texas,</b> Austin City Limits, <b>Willie Nelson</b>, the <b>Broken Spoke,</b> <b>Ben Crenshaw</b>, Joe Ely, <b>The Geezinslaw Brothers</b>, the Belamy Brothers, <b>Grateful Dead,</b> Austin Rodeo, Henry's Bar, Desert Rose Band,<b> Jerry Jeff Walker,</b> Asleep at The Wheel, etc. And the Pentagon.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And that is how we met one of the nicest, kindness and multi-talented man, <b>Henry B. Gonzalez</b>, who was one of the members of the famous <b>Armadillo World Headquarters— Armadillo Art Squad. </b>A group of young artists who created all the posters, handbills and print ads that promoted the performances at the Armadillo.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Henry was also an integral part in the Austin Music Scene, too. Including working with the <b>Austin Opera House</b> and in 2004 he was part of the founding group of the famous <b>South Austin Museum of Popular Culture</b>.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And when Henry wasn't doing one of those activities he was either a stage hand or a stage manager or was off touring with several national and local bands, including the late great Stevie Ray Vaughn.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Jim & I first met Henry when he came into our embroidery shop to pick up two huge boxes of Asleep At The Wheel's embroidered caps, for the band to sell and also five tour jackets for the band members. And that was the day we instantly became best of friends with Henry.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And from that day forward Henry would stop by our shop at least 2-3 times a month for fun visits. And we always loved seeing him, because we loved Henry, as did everyone who knew him. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Henry would often tell us hilarious stories, about him being on the road with the bands and they were so funny our backs would often ache from laughing so hard. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So now I am going to tell you one of my most favorite stories that Henry told us when he had been on the road working with Asleep at the Wheel, in Las Vegas, in 1991. It went something like this:</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One night after doing a late show, Tim Alexander and a couple of other band members and Henry weren't tired, so they decided to go outside to get some fresh air, and take a walk on The Drag.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They were walking and feeling no pain when they looked up and saw down the Strip, these huge, flashing lights crisscrossing the sky, so they decided to walk down there to check it out.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">It turned out to be several big search lights that are used for events and grand openings, etc. And there were all of these people gathered around, in this roped off area, in front of the hotel. And all of these people were all looking up and watching the sky.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They asked a security guard what was going on and he told them that they were shooting a scene, for the movie Honeymoon In Las Vegas, starring Nicholas Cage, Sarah Jessica Parker, James Caan and Pat Morita and then he invited all of them to join the crowd of onlookers, because they needed extras for the crowd scene in the movie. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So they joined the crowd and looked up towards the sky, too. Then minutes later there was an announcement for everyone to look up and start applauding, because they were fixin' to shoot the Flying Elvises scene.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So they looked up and saw the plane and then they watched all of these Elvises jumping out of the plane and opening up their parachutes.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then Henry told us that while many of the Elvises were landing on target—some of them weren't that lucky.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">They watched one Elvis <b>crash into the side of the hotel</b>. Then another Elvis <b>slammed into a balcony knocking over a table and chairs</b>. And then another Elvis <b>landed on top of the crowd and his parachute got all tangled up in the crowd</b>…It was absolutely hilarious. And fortunately no one got seriously hurt…"</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then Jim, Henry and I all started laughing and we could not quit laughing for several minutes making silly jokes like—It's a bird. It's a plane…</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><b></b><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Now here are a couple of thoughts that I have about skydiving:</b></p><ol>
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</ol><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b> 2.</b> What's the hardest part of skydiving? The ground! Or slamming into a Las Vegas hotel wall or balcony.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Folks, since this podcast involves Jim's & my embroidery shop, I am going to go ahead and put it on a bumper sticker, so to speak, and tell y'all the story about us working with the Pentagon. And don't worry—it is not <b>TOP SECRET.</b></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Jim and I were good friends with Patrick, who lived in Westlake. He was a highly successful, powerful attorney, in Austin. And he used to love to hang out at our shop and visit with us.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Patrick was also a reservist or something like that for a high security, government naval agency that worked out of the Pentagon, in DC. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway, he had asked us to embroider a few dozen shirts and caps with this agency's logo, for some kind of upcoming event. Because he wanted to give them as gifts to his friends and team members.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">We told Patrick that we could do that, but we would need to get some kind of permission, clearance or official authorization, from this government agency, and Patrick had no problem with getting us that information. Because within just a few days we had received authorization from a General that worked at the Pentagon.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Bottom Line__We embroidered Patrick's caps and golf shirts. And Patrick told us they were a big hit and in the future he would be ordering more caps and shirts, etc. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Patrick also told us that his friend, a General, at the Pentagon, would be calling us soon to order caps, hats and jackets from us, and that we had his permission to sew them for him, because Patrick had paid for the set-up cost of digitizing the logo.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Several weeks passed by since our last talk with Patrick and his General friend still hadn't called us.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway, one afternoon two, rich, obviously young-gold-digging women came into our shop with a bag of towels to be embroidered. And Jim waited on them, because I was in the middle of sewing corporate logos on <b>Ben Crenshaw's</b> golf shirts and I was working on a tight deadline. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">(FYI: Ben Crenshaw was a 2 times Masters Champion and in 1995, when he won his 2nd Masters tournament, he was actually wearing one of the golf shirts that I had embroidered for him, with all of his sponsor's logos embroidered on it.) </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway, as I was sewing <b>Barton Springs Country Club</b> logos or <b>Nextel's</b> or one of Ben's other sponsor's logos on Ben's expensive <b>Bobby Jones' golf shirts</b>— I watched these two, rude women giving my husband a hard time and talking down to him—like he didn't know a thing about embroidery and I was getting madder by the minute.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I wanted to stop sewing and go over to the counter and handle these two, obnoxious, you-know-what, but I had to keep sewing.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Anyway, minutes later, as they continued to waste Jim's time, because she was unable to make a thread color decision, our telephone rang. So I paused the computer and I answered it. "PDQ. How may I help you?…Yes, please hold for just a moment." It was the General.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Then I loudly interrupted one of the women and I said very casually, "Excuse me Jim, it is the <b>Pentagon</b>, again. I'll take over with your customers, because the General said it was very important."</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Oh my goodness, you should have seen the shocked expressions on these two women's faces. And I am pretty sure that they were thinking—"The Pentagon calling? What? Who are these people?" </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Within three minutes, as Jim was quoting the General the price for his caps and shirts order, I had finished taking the woman's embroidered towel order. And I am embarrassed to admit this, but I charged the snob double the regular price. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Because Jim & I used to always brag to our customers and friends—that we never posted our prices—because we charged by the attitude.</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And that is about it for today's podcast. But before I leave, please remember my favorite quote—"Life is short. And so am I!"</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">For pictures and more information about the late, great Henry B. Gonzales, please go to www.cousinnancy.com and click on the link to my blog. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">And lastly, I want to say, "Dear God, please bless Henry B. Gonzalez, because he was a true friend of mine and I will always love him." </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Y'all take care, keep on laughing and thank y'all for listening!</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-80246774738919997722022-01-21T10:42:00.000-06:002022-01-21T10:42:26.235-06:00The Cousin Nancy Show is ranking very well in Netherlands!<p> Today I received this e-mail and I opened it, because of the subject line:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>The Cousin Nancy Show is ranking very well in Netherlands!</b></p><p> After reading the message below, it made me feel good, so I want to share it with y'all. </p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">"Hello, how’s it going?</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Hope all is well.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I have some cool information that might interest you.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Your podcast </span><i style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The Cousin Nancy Show</i><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> has good performance in Apple Podcasts rankings (last 30 days):</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /></p><ul style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><li>Position 127 in the category Comedy Interviews (Netherlands)</li></ul><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">This data is provided by </span><a href="https://podstatus.com/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" target="_blank">podstatus.com</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Happy Podcasting!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Carlos,</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(29, 34, 40); color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">from Podstatus."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">So I am more than thrilled to know that <b>The Cousin Nancy Show</b> is ranking so well in Netherlands. And I do want to thank everyone around the world who listens to it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Now I must go, so I can let my dear friend,<b> Simone de Vries</b>, know about this good news.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Take care and keep on laughing!</span></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-25176324456793622652022-01-12T11:00:00.000-06:002022-01-12T11:09:50.936-06:00Episode 12: Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner!<p> In Episode:12 podcast—Guess Who Is Coming To Dinner, I tell the story about the time <b>Kinky Friedman</b> called me at the <b>Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch</b>, to ask me to please cook dinner for him and the famous <b>Christopher Hitchens</b>, one of the best known journalist in America, and for Hitchens' camera crew, and for our dear friends <b>Sandy & John Wolfmueller</b>.</p><p>It was the fall of 2004, and unexpected when, late in the day, Christopher Hitchens and his camera crew came out to Kinky's ranch to visit and interview him for a documentary that Hitchens was currently working on.</p><p>The documentary <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv5H-aNN8Lc" target="_blank">Texas: America Supersized</a></b> can be viewed on YouTube, so if you are interested in watching it please click on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv5H-aNN8Lc" target="_blank">Texas: America Supersized</a>.</p><p>I had a lot of fun doing this podcast and besides telling that funny story about that night, I also included a Cousin Boomer update and a funny newly wed joke to make you laugh even more.</p><p>To listen to my 12th podcast please click on <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/9874140-episode-12-guess-who-is-coming-to-dinner" target="_blank">The Cousin Nancy Show</a> or on the upper, right-hand side bar The Cousin Nancy Show.</p><p>Y'all take care and keep on laughing! And always remember my favorite quote: "Life Is Short And So Am I!"</p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-65182782651090050892022-01-03T18:12:00.001-06:002022-01-03T18:30:37.885-06:00Episode:11 The Frequent Flyer!<p><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 18px;">In my11th podcast—The Frequent Flyer, I had a blast interviewing my dear friend <b>Simone de Vries</b>. I have known Simone for over 20 years and she is a famous international award-winning documentary-film-maker. And Simone is also an International Emmy Award nominee.</span></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqfMLSNOLCxGxJkNAtMBl0vTrroz5BPhMy9AYo8LHsi55_mlmGsZSczE7r1Zp-cl3JRND7UwK8hVn5MWMe3YCRtv8yLw2BBDBsPE70b66KD18wXx_TfsvnwAj2Vdo96-M-6Mabxw0RInwUoIC2e-m67oxkZKiiwSxocsa3gqVS5Y-qbS1wm_UTD9qChw=s640" style="background-color: white; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="640" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqfMLSNOLCxGxJkNAtMBl0vTrroz5BPhMy9AYo8LHsi55_mlmGsZSczE7r1Zp-cl3JRND7UwK8hVn5MWMe3YCRtv8yLw2BBDBsPE70b66KD18wXx_TfsvnwAj2Vdo96-M-6Mabxw0RInwUoIC2e-m67oxkZKiiwSxocsa3gqVS5Y-qbS1wm_UTD9qChw=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 18px;">Simone's documentaries have allowed her to meet many celebrities. Some of these famous people that she has met or spent time with and/or interviewed include: Kinky Friedman, President Bill Clinton, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Robin Williams, Rutger Hauer, John Callahan and the Queen of Netherlands just to name a few. And, of course, me, too!</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 18px;">For more information about Simone de Vries her website is: </span><a href="http://www.simonedevries.nl/" rel="noopener" style="font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">http://www.simonedevries.nl</span></b></a><br style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 18px;" /><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 18px;">Or you can check her out on my website </span><a href="http://www.cousinnancy.com/" rel="noopener" style="font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">www.cousinnancy.com</span></b></a><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-size: 18px;"> and follow the link to my blog: </span><a href="http://cousinnancy.blogspot.com/" rel="noopener" style="font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: black;">www.cousinnancy.blogspot.com</span></b></a></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #666666;">To listen to my fun interview with Simone de Vries please click here: </span><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/9825638-episode-11-the-frequent-flyer-simone-de-vries-interview?t=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><b>The</b> <b>Cousin </b></span></a></span><span face="lato, Helvetic Neue, Arial, san-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><b><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/9825638-episode-11-the-frequent-flyer-simone-de-vries-interview?t=0" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Nancy Show</span></a> </b><span style="color: #666666;">or on the upper, right-hand sidebar.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span face="lato, Helvetic Neue, Arial, san-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Happy New Year to all of y'all! And keep on laughing!</span></span></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-33683328592205665232021-12-11T19:20:00.001-06:002021-12-13T17:53:42.744-06:00Episode 10: The French Connection!<p> I know that it has been a while since I last blogged or did a podcast, but I just wanted to let you know that I just published Episode 10: The French Connection. And you can check it out here at this address:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/9704140-episode-10-the-french-connection?t=0" target="_blank">The Cousin Nancy Show</a></p><p style="text-align: left;">Or just click on <b>The Cousin Nancy Show</b> on the right-hand side bar to listen.</p><p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="color: #535353;">In Episode 10: The French Connection </b><span style="color: #535353;">I talk about my newest favorite author: </span><b style="color: #535353;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/9704140-episode-10-the-french-connection?t=0" target="_blank">Louise Penny</a></b><span style="color: #535353;"> and being instantly hooked on reading her bestselling series of </span><b style="color: #535353;">Chief Inspector Armand Gamache</b><span style="color: #535353;"> novels. </span><a href="http://louisepenny.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><b>http://louisepenny.com</b></span></a></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Then I talk about my funny experience taking French in high school followed by a couple of Cousin Boomer updates.</span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #535353; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">And I hope that you enjoy this podcast and it will make you laugh...</span></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-67685914977268556652021-09-16T15:30:00.001-05:002021-09-16T15:47:06.171-05:00The Nancys: One Is A Cousin & One Is The First Lady Of Bandera, Texas!<p><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">My guests are my dear friends</span><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;"> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px;">Nancy Harvey</b><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">and</span><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;"> </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px;">Gerry Olert</b><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">. Nancy is the official First Lady of Bandera, Texas and Gerry is officially the Best Videographer In Texas. And before we started recording the podcast, Tony served up his grilled, bacon-wrapped bananas and Nancy and Gerry both raved about how delicious they were.</span></p><p><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">In this fun, 40 minute, 9th episode, Nancy Harvey tells some fascinating stories, talks about her awesome Bandera store "</span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px;">Spirits Of Texas</b><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;">," her famous family, and her singing Chihuahua that will only sing when listening to </span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px;">Kinky Friedman</b><span face="lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 15px;"> sing. And Gerry kept us aka "The Nancys," on our toes and laughing out loud—by reading some of Willie Nelson's most favorite jokes, off of the Internet. Here is a picture that Tony took of the three of us doing the podcast.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_7rJoP9Am_4pd4B0BvksilznX7J4UdvzHdYcR_bS4mSmHUIYpQZ1XMfmrnvJwY1tkbQPnYEwBTrPHqj8zyOGk1CQUtJoZ-65t3znvYOklVewYRlRfuNyKnE9yuNyXy0vV0NO3eO9Wu2J7/s576/1nancyharveygerryme.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="576" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_7rJoP9Am_4pd4B0BvksilznX7J4UdvzHdYcR_bS4mSmHUIYpQZ1XMfmrnvJwY1tkbQPnYEwBTrPHqj8zyOGk1CQUtJoZ-65t3znvYOklVewYRlRfuNyKnE9yuNyXy0vV0NO3eO9Wu2J7/w400-h266/1nancyharveygerryme.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And to listen to this podcast please <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/9203918-the-nancys-one-is-a-cousin-one-is-the-first-lady-of-bandera-texas?t=0" target="_blank">click here</a> or on <b>The Cousin Nancy Show </b>on the sidebar <b>→</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Doing this podcast was a fun time for all of us and to find out more about Spirits Of Texas, Nancy Harvey and Gerry Olert please visit: </span><a href="http://cousinnancy.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">www.cousinnancy.com</a><span style="text-align: left;"> and click on Cousin Nancy's Blog link, located at the top and at the bottom of the page to find links and see photos of this episode. And to check out Nancy's fabulous, all Texas store <b>Spirits Of Texas</b> please click here: </span><a href="htthttps://www.spiritsoftexasbandera.com" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #92c13c; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.spiritsoftex.com</a><span style="text-align: left;"> and for information about Gerry Olert please click here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gerry+olert" target="_blank">Gerry Olert</a> on Facebook</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;">After we did the podcast Tony and I followed Gerry and Nancy to Bandera and ate lunch with them and a couple of her friends, at the OST. Then we walked around the corner to Nancy's super store <b>Spirits Of Texas</b> and I took these pictures just to give you an idea of just how big and just how cool The First Lady of Bandera's store is. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqhRaIdUdLT4cJAC725WLDNxpshFpZnhRDBMuHg0UfxN_8YGXtpl5OtyK-ZgeqWmZ6oy7Af0dLXkFTNUEDAGqGV5LAeXQHf6x7hv8gnJVmESZc4YBYz0xyt1bSf8E-sRlPTTzBfflYL62/s640/2frontstore.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidqhRaIdUdLT4cJAC725WLDNxpshFpZnhRDBMuHg0UfxN_8YGXtpl5OtyK-ZgeqWmZ6oy7Af0dLXkFTNUEDAGqGV5LAeXQHf6x7hv8gnJVmESZc4YBYz0xyt1bSf8E-sRlPTTzBfflYL62/w400-h300/2frontstore.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">Lastly, I want to thank Tony, Nancy Harvey and Gerry Olert for helping make this an enjoyable, humorous podcast.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Y'all take care and keep on laughing!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3018156447654950017.post-32078111124112259062021-08-25T19:39:00.001-05:002021-08-25T19:39:20.017-05:00The Cousin Nancy Show Episode 8: Magic & Goals —Is Up & Running!<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px;">In Episode 8 I give a Cousin Boomer update. Then I tell my humorous story about the time when Tony and I and Kinky Friedman went out to Las Vegas together. And I tell the story about when Kinky, his beautiful girlfriend Kelly and us all went to see the Penn & Teller Show which was absolutely fabulous and what happened to us after the show.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: lato, Helvetic Neue, Arial, san-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 15px;">I still treasure my Penn & Teller magnet that I got that night and I proudly display it on the refrigerator. And please note that every time I look at it—it always makes me smile.</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja-UMGz-AKT4wj3TAJkYmwUWfwk8vb_Y_Kkl5eYsx9FzehP2YObN5uVMENr4-Jmqd2WA9hP448D0m92sNqiTiwIB4jF0tg_e4K9gKW3U_AGuSZkkJuxojI5xOZ2AahtCQ4Ag1BmweVvynT/s1440/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja-UMGz-AKT4wj3TAJkYmwUWfwk8vb_Y_Kkl5eYsx9FzehP2YObN5uVMENr4-Jmqd2WA9hP448D0m92sNqiTiwIB4jF0tg_e4K9gKW3U_AGuSZkkJuxojI5xOZ2AahtCQ4Ag1BmweVvynT/w400-h300/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCesLGm8eguVPZ7T3biPGIP_iPE3GRZjHxuAOiMFmuv3uWSAgzD_2dgBTmN3kpR6lUJTvLUlX2qOBb7L-jtcVmrZnTV4bBnCSL3v6hmlIIX2HopKcx-A4jEQ-r9KXaUj90c7XT-QtA2c2p/s1638/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1638" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCesLGm8eguVPZ7T3biPGIP_iPE3GRZjHxuAOiMFmuv3uWSAgzD_2dgBTmN3kpR6lUJTvLUlX2qOBb7L-jtcVmrZnTV4bBnCSL3v6hmlIIX2HopKcx-A4jEQ-r9KXaUj90c7XT-QtA2c2p/w351-h400/2.jpg" width="351" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">This podcast is just a little over 7 minutes long and if you would like to listen to it please </span><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1600207/9088265-episode-8-magic-goals?t=0" target="_blank">click here.</a></b><span style="text-align: left;"> Or click on the The Cousin Nancy Show on the side bar near the top.</span></div><p>I hope that you enjoy it and that it makes you laugh.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: lato, "Helvetic Neue", Arial, san-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p>cousin nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07827950417863497141noreply@blogger.com0