Friday, August 29, 2008

Dirty Water!

I have just gotten back from Kerrville. Tony treated me to lunch at Lafours, a great seafood restaurant, in Kerrville, that makes the best gumbo on the planet, next to my gumbo recipe, of course, which I stole, awhile back, from Mary S.—John’s mom! After lunch, we went over to Wal Mart for a few needed items.

Tony needed more fishing lures and I needed to buy organic vegetables, so I can make my new recipe called, “Cousin Nancy’s Snappy Tomato Cocktail” without vodka—and it is totally organic! And, as usual, I stole that recipe, from my Vita-Mix recipe book—page 33!

The organic ingredients for my newest recipe are: Tony’s hand-picked heirloom organic tomatoes and jalapenos, from his garden, spinach, carrots, onion, parsley, bell pepper, Worcestershire sauce, Alessi salt and a cup of ice cubes from the freezer.

It is trying to rain outside and it is sorta feeling like an early Fall. Today has been another great day for me! My quilt, from J.C. Penneys, arrived three days early! I plan to cut it up, so I can reupholster the cushion in the ‘big room,’ in the Space Ship, and for a cushion for the bench that Tony is building for me—for the Space Ship. I will use the leftover remnants to make throw pillows, etc.! I love the colors in that quilt, and cannot wait to get started tomorrow!

To set the mood for my blogging, I do what I always do, before writing. I have just turned on my salt lamp and my iPod. “Sweet Emotion” by Aerosmith, just started playing and it caused me to laugh! I laughed because, everytime that I hear that song, I think of Ben Stiller’s movie with Owen Wilson— “Starsky & Hutch!” Which is one of my favorite movies, because it is one of the funniest movies that I have ever seen—next to “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!” Jonathan Winters was so funny in it! And, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Snoop Dogg and Will Ferrell’s roles in ‘Starsky & Hutch were as funny as Jonathan Winters was when he single handedly destroyed a filling station, while wildly throwing tires! I love those two movies.

Kinky called a few minutes ago, from Atlantic City, just as “Dirty Water” by The Standells started playing—perfect timing. He called to check on the Friedmans and Tony and me. As we were talking he said, “I’m in Atlantic City, Nance.”

“I know, Kinky,” I said. “I can hear the sound of the slot machines in the background.”

“Nice detective work,” Kinky said. “I’ve got this magazine article, that I cannot wait for you to read. It’s about this woman, in Florida, who rescues chimpanzees and monkeys. You are going to love it...” Near the end of our conversation, Kinky said, “The tour is going great! We are having a lot of fun, too. I really miss you and Tony and the Friedmans. Please tell Tony, I send him my best. I will be back on Wednesday.”

“We miss you, too. And, please tell Little Jewford and Ratso—I said hi and send them my best.” End of conversation.

I have to go now. “Oh Happy Day!” by Ramsey Lewis, just started playing. I love it!

P.S. Tony and I are fixin’ to watch the movie “Palo Pinto Gold,” the movie, that Kinky plays a role in—as the Governor of Texas, set back in the 1880’s! Little Jewford, Robert Earl Keen, Jay Novacek, Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, and Kevin Fowler also have roles in it. Thank you, Jon and Sandy Wolfmueller—for loaning it to us!

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