Take A Load Off Fanny! or DQ!

Today has been great. I apologize for not posting anything for three days and the reason that I didn't was because I have been a little too busy with all kinds of paperwork, etc.

This morning June and Jim, our great volunteers came out to walk our dogs for us and Dawn, from Medina, came out to volunteer to walk our dogs for her very first time.

Because I was winding up my paperwork, I was running late to get outside. When I finished doing my paperwork, I took a shower, quickly got dressed and then I went outside to greet everyone and then do my morning chores.

While I was feeding Mr. Rogers and Miss Dee, I noticed that my 501 Levis were awfully loose fitting on me, in fact, they were so loose I bet that I could have just pulled them down, without unbuttoning them. It was like I had dropped two sizes overnight.

When I went to my next pen to feed Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton, I started getting concerned about loosing so much weight so fast, because I don't think you burn many calories sitting and doing paperwork and then I remembered that yesterday, Carol had also made a comment about me looking like I had lost some more weight. Then I started worrying, because you can't take a load off fanny so fast, unless you are sick.

After I finished feeding the dogs, I jumped inside Kermit and took off for The Cabin, so I could weigh myself, which normally is something that I am never in a hurry to do.

When I weighed myself, I had only lost one pound and that is not enough to make your jeans baggie. Then it hit me—maybe I had accidentally put on Tony's Levis, in haste to get outside. And I was right!

When I went back outside, in my tight-fitting jeans, to help Tony finish cleaning the dog pens, I was happy that I wasn't sick, but I was also sad, because I still need to drop more pounds.

When I arrived at the feed barn, Tony and June were talking about one of our dogs. A minute later, when Tony asked me if I was okay. I confessed to them about accidentally wearing Tony's jeans, instead of mine.

The five of us ate lunch, at the Medina Highpoint Resort and it was so much fun. During our lunch, we got to talking about our childhood nicknames given to us. June's nickname was hilarious, but cannot be divulged, Jim's was Jimmy, Tony never had one given to him and mine was Doodle Bug.

When Dawn told us that she didn't have a nickname and then started telling us about her childhood days things started to get a little funny. She told us that she had lived two miles away from a small town and having to walk to school with cows walking with her. "Seriously, my best friends were cows. I loved them so much and they loved me back. They were Black Angus cows and I even gave them names, even though they weren't my cows."

"Then your nickname ought to be Dairy Queen or DQ for short," I teased Dawn. After everyone had quit laughing, I said, "And, you were the cow-ard of the county and one day when you were hoofing your way to school, with your cowfriends, this big, bully, cowboy came along and milked you out of fifty-five cents, so he could buy enough gas, for his black Mustang, to get him to Cowtown. Because he was going to ride a bull and rope a steer, at a rodeo that night."

"Look out everybody," June jokingly remarked. "Nancy's on a roll, again."

"And that's no B.S. too," I shot-back, ending my long-winded roll. Then I quit talking and let everybody else do the talking, so I could eat the rest of my delicious lunch.

Before we adios-ed our good friends: Pete, Sarah and Chris, who work at the resort, Sarah and I talked about me possibly doing a book signing, at the Medina Highpoint Resort, sometime in March. I told her that I would love to do it and the only date that didn't work for me right now was Saturday, March 1st, because I will be at the Boerne Library, from 10 -2 PM, to sell and sign my books, along with other local authors.

Then I told her about our exciting, upcoming benefit, Concert For Utopia, on Palm Sunday, April 13th, at the Cailloux Theatre, in Kerrville, at 3:30 featuring Ray Benson & Asleep At The Wheel, Billy Joe Shaver, Chet O'Keefe and Jesse Dayton's salute to George Jones. Which Kinky said is incredibly great. And that is about it for tonight, because I'm fixin' to watch a movie.

Y'all have a great evening!

Fay Maclachlan Is Coming!

Today has been great, but first I want to tell you about last night. I had so much fun writing the beginning of my new fiction book. Everything just kept flowing and easily falling into place, that I couldn't type it fast enough. Which proved to me that I was meant to write this book right now, before finishing my third, fiction, mystery, cliffhanger, Cowgirl Sisterhood novella.

Because I am so excited about writing this book, all that I can tell you is that I don't have a name for it yet, but I know that it will reveal itself to me when it is time. My new book is going to be humorous and serious fiction and it is about dogs primarily and other animals. Enough said, because I am superstitious and I don't want to put a jinx on my new book project. For now, my lips are sealed and only Tony and Steve know what I am writing and they have promised me, not to tell anyone. (I am so glad that we went over to see Steve yesterday, because on our way over there, that's when I got my inspiration to write it! And when Tony and Steve encouraged me to write it—that sealed the deal for me.)

This afternoon, after lunch, Tony was in his office working on his computer and I was doing my daily paperwork, at the kitchen table, when Mama barked, ran out our bedroom, flew past me, straight to the front door. When she opened the door herself and went outside, I had to chuckle to myself, because I knew that I was not having a deja vu—The Hole Under The Fence Gang had once again dug out of their pen.

When Tony walked into the big room, he was putting on his coat, and said, "Grace Kelly and Tom Landry got out again. Dang it. I'll take care of it this time." Then he went outside, jumped on Kermit, our Polaris 4 wheeler, and took off to go catch the two greatest escape artists, ever to live, at our rescue ranch.

Thirty minutes later, Tony walked back inside our thirty-year-old trailer and said, "They're back in their pen and I fixed it, so they won't ever be coming out of that hole, again..." Then he went back to his office.

Now, let me tell you about the three things that have made my day so great. This morning, a nice woman named Sandy, who works at the Boerne Library, called to invite me to come and be a part of their annual, local authors event, to give the opportunity to local authors to sell their books, on Saturday, March 1st, from 10 -2:00 and I was thrilled about being invited. And I am going to be there!

More great news is that my dear friend Fay, up in Toronto, that has, over the years, adopted two dogs from us, Kris Kristofferson and Kia aka Lassie, is flying down to help out and attend our dynamite Concert For Utopia, featuring Ray Benson & Asleep At The Wheel, Billy Joe Shaver, Chet O'Keefe and Jesse Dayton, at The Cailloux Theatre, on Palm Sunday, April 13th, at 3:30.

Tony and I are so thrilled to hear that Fay is coming down, because she is a dear friend of ours, that we have never met in person. ( FYI: Fay is one of the main, fictional characters in my mystery, cliffhanger novellas.) Anyway, we cannot wait to see Fay. And trust me, we will make sure to give her a good time in Texas.

The last great thing that happened today is our dear friends, Chet O'Keefe and Don, came over, around 4:00, for a really fun visit. While we were inside The Cabin, Chet announced that he has just written and recorded another song and we got to be the first to listen to it. Because listening to his new song gave me goose bumps, because it was so beautiful, I made sure to tell him, before they left to go back over to Kinky's. And that is about it for tonight.

Y'all have a great evening!