Fish Tacos!

Today has been a great day. Ben came over early this morning to drink coffee and to eat breakfast with us, before he and Tony went outside to do the morning chores.

Our fabulous volunteers, June and Jim and Ruth, Jim's visiting sister-in-law, came out this morning to walk our dogs for us and we loved it, but our dogs loved it even more.

During a break, after Ruth had walked Guinevere and Underdog she told me that she was a big Kinky fan, so I picked up the phone and called Kink. "Kinky, can I bring Ruth over to meet you? She's..."

Five minutes later, I was introducing Ruth to Kinky, out by the front gate and then we went into the Lodge for a short, but fun visit with him and The Friedmans and Ben's two dogs Valerie and Penny. And before we left the Lodge, I shot Kinky and Ruth, so she could show the picture to her friends and family.

As Kermit took us safely back to the rescue ranch I could tell that Ruth was on Cloud Nine, because she had gotten to meet Kinky, tour the Lodge, meet The Friedmans and Ben's dogs, "The Girls From Austin," sit in a rocker, on his front porch and visit with him, as we watched his Hummingbirds feed from his many feeders. "He is such a nice man! I can't believe I got to meet him and..." She said, as we arrived back at the rescue ranch.

Early this afternoon, Ben and I had a lot of fun making lunch for the three of us. While Tony was back in his office, listening to his country music, we turned on my iPod and cranked up the volume and we started singing Sweet Emotion with Aerosmith.

A minute later, when Tone walked into the big room, he laughed and started teasing us about liking Aerosmith's music, because he only likes country music, so Ben and I quit cooking, for a minute and we started cutting-up (dancing) around the living room, like Ellen DeGeneres does on the beginning of her television show and Tony thought it was pretty hilarious, with our exaggerated dance moves, because I can't dance like the kids do nowadays. 

When that great song had ended and Alison Krauss began singing, we quit dancing and finished frying up our planko-breaded shrimp, for our fish tacos. Our late lunch was totally delicious. Ben ate three fish tacos, Tony ate two, overly- stuffed with shrimp, tacos and I ate just one fish taco and we still had plenty of shrimp left over, for T.'s and my lunch tomorrow. 

At 3:00, two nice women came out to possibly adopt a dog from us and they really liked Guinevere, the sweet Corgi/Sheltie mix, so please keep your finger's crossed for her, that she gets adopted tomorrow.

Around 6:00 this evening, we had more good news, because Rick and Leisa called, from Port A, to tell us that they would be coming to see us Sunday evening, instead of Monday and we can't wait to see them. And that is about it for tonight.

Y'all have a great evening!

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!