Deaf Ears!

This evening as I write this, my music is softly playing, a fire is roaring in our new fireplace, the tiny white lights are sparkling, on our cheap Swedish Pine walls, Mama is in our bedroom sleeping on our bed, Belle Starr-Simons and Abbie are sound asleep in the two chairs in the big room, little Peggy is in Tony's arms or lap, watching TV in his office and my dear old friend Toto is under the kitchen table in his bed, next to my feet, occasionally passing gas-bombs in his sleep, inside The Cabin. Home sweet home.

Before I tell about my great day, I want to highly recommend to anyone who wishes they had a fireplace to purchase the DVD "Ambient Fire: The Ultimate Video Fireplace," because I am now addicted to it. When I told Kink about getting the DVD and loving it so much, he chuckled and then he said, "It has got to be better than watching TV." And I had to agree with him, as I heard his real wood burning fireplace crackle in the background.

This morning while Tony and I were outside doing our morning chores, Carlton was inside taking a very important phone call for me from Courtney. After our chores were done, when T. and I walked inside The Cabin the phone rang—it was Ian, "Hi, Nancy. This is Ian. Courtney and I wanted to know when it would be a good time for us to come out to get Queen Latifah?"

"Right now," I told Ian.

"Great! We're on our way now. Bye."

"Bye." Then I told Tony the great news about Ian and Courtney coming out, so Courtney could officially adopt The Queen and take her to her forever home with Ian and Scooby Doo and he was as thrilled about it as I was. Then I started preparing Latifah's adoption papers, so they wouldn't have to wait for me to fill them out when they got here.

Minutes later, because Ian likes to drive faster than a speeding bullet, just like his father Roger does—they arrived safely and they were wearing big smiles on their faces as they greeted us. After a short, but fun visit with them, outside The Cabin—they jumped in Ian's Jeep Cherokee and followed Kermit, Tony and me down to Queen Latifah's pen.

As we drove up to Dr. John's and Queen Latifah's pen, she already knew it was going to be her day, because she was jumping up and down with excitement. When Courtney handed Queen Latifah's new dog collar and leash, that she had bought, to Tony, so he could leash her up and bring her out of her pen, I said to Queen Latifah, "I told you we would find you a great forever home," But, if fell on deaf ears, because she was so anxious to get to Courtney's loving arms, so she could give her a kiss and it was so heartfelt I almost teared up.

Early this evening Kinky called me from the road and I told him all about Queen Latifah's super adoption and how happy we were for her and he loved hearing the news and that is about it for tonight.

Y'all have a great evening!