Goober Is Great!

Today has been a great day. After we had done our morning chores outside, my dear friend, Carla called me from Rocksprings to make sure Tony and I could meet her and her good friend Dan for lunch tomorrow, because after lunch they are going to follow us out here, so Dan can meet our dogs, because he is thinking about adopting a dog, but not sure.

After confirming our lunch date with Carla, we had a fun visit and then adios-ed each other. Then I got busy reupholstering the last two chairs and an ottoman in the "Pink Room" in the cabin. One hour into my beautify-my- cabin project, Tony walked inside the trailer to tell me that Peanut had just been adopted, so I dropped what I was sewing and filled out Peanut's adoption papers and then I went outside to meet the nice couple that was fixin' to adopt our cute, little Peanut.

When the nice woman finished filling out Peanut's adoption form I told her, as she happily held one happier Peanut in her arms, "Please feel free to change Peanut's name, because when we rescue our dogs we usually have no clue as to what their name was before and I promise you that he will easily adapt to a new name."

"We are going to change his name to Goober, because our son got bitten when he was young by a dog named Peanut."

"Goober is great!" I said, as Peanut stood on their truck's tailgate, wanting to get out of here as fast as he could, so he could go to his new forever home on a nearby ranch. After we thanked them for adopting Peanut and had shook hands with them, they climbed into their giant pickup with Peanut happily back in her arms. As they started to drive away, I half-hollered, "Goodbye, Goober!"

Before returning to my project, I called Kinky to tell him the great news about Peanut getting adopted and he was thrilled with the good news. Then Kinky thrilled me with some more good news. "Nance, please let everyone know that the tickets are selling fast, for the upcoming B.J. Thomas Bonefit and in the next few days we are going to offer an early "Meet and Greet," before the concert starts, to meet B.J. Thomas and Ruth Buzzi and me and you and Tony, if y'all can make it. The price of the "Meet and Greet with show ticket is going to be $100.00 and Sean told me that they are in the process of getting the meet and greet announcement up with all of the information."

"Kinky, that is fantastic news! That is so nice of Ruthie to come to our Bonefit to help us raise money. I can't wait to see her and Kent..."

I finally finished my project late this afternoon and here are a few pictures that I took of my newly reupholstered chairs and the ottoman, against the wall with all of the stuff piled onto it, not the dark blue one, which I plan to paint dark pink. I am so happy with the way the chair cushions turned out, too. Tomorrow, I plan to make and hang new curtains with my left over fabric and then, after I dust the cabin it will— "Pop!"

Y'all have a great evening and please keep praying that we get some more rain!

Short Post Tonight—Rick's Here!

Today has been great, but because it is late, tonight's post is going to be really short, because our dear friend Rick, the "Friendly Lighthouse Keeper" is here! This morning our good friend Kim Williamson came out to shoot us, but she ended up only shooting Kinky, for a PSA about our exciting, upcoming B.J. Thomas Bonefit, to air on Fox's local channels.

Kinky first started out holding Winston Churchill in his arms as he plugged our upcoming benefit (bonefit) and then when our good friend Big G showed up, because Winston was barking at his big hat that he was wearing, Kim shot Kinky holding Sophie and she literally stole the show.

After Kink had plugged the final "An Evening With B. J. Thomas" bonefit, we had a fun time visiting with each other, as Kim packed up her camera gear. After Kim had adios-ed us, Big G, one of Kerrville's most popular radio DJ's, followed Tone and me over to the rescue ranch, so we could visit.

During our super fun visit with Big G, I played Jim Keaveny's CD, "Music Man" for him and he loved his music as much as we do and he told us that he was going to contact Keaveny, so he could interview him on his show and start playing his fabulous music—which of course, made me smile, because I love Jim Keaveny's music so much and want the whole world to know about this fantastic, talented musician.

During our super fun visit with Big G, in Outer Space, I also played him one of my new, favorite bluegrass songs by Steve Martin on his Rare Bird Alert CD—King Tut and Big G loved it and it made him smile, like it does us, so he told us that he was going to start playing it on his morning show!

This evening, after Tony had hung up my new "faux 2" white, wooden blinds" eight times, in my pretty, pink writing cabin—Rick pleasantly surprised us and showed up on his cool Triumph motorcycle!

After happy hour, before we went outside to show Rick my newly decorated cabin, I pulled two frozen steaks out of the freezer and said, "Tomorrow morning, after y'all get back from the Old Timer, I'm fixing y'all these two steaks with eggs." Which ended up being a total lie, because when we returned to the trailer—Mama had already eaten one of them—which made us all laugh. And that is about it for tonight.

Y'all have a great evening and please keep praying that we get some more rain!

I Kneaded A Break!

Yesterday evening, Carol came over with a birthday present for me and to see my pink writing cabin and I loved her present and she loved my newly painted pink cabin.

After she had admired my cabin we came inside the trailer to open up the cute bottle of wine that she had given to me, COWGIRL SISTERHOOD: Oh My Darlin'—Sweet Red, Red Wine.

As we sipped the delicious wine, we laughed as we read it's cute label on the back of the bottle and then Carol, Tony and I talked about how much fun we had had with Karin and then she and I traded some new George Foreman grill recipes and then we caught up with each other's latest news. And a little before dark-thirty, Carol adios-ed us, because she needed to get home to feed her horses and T. and I were sad to see her go, because we were having so much fun with her.

Today has been great, because this morning after we did our chores outside, while Tony was in Medina photographing the Medina High School Homecoming Parade, I decided that I kneaded to take a break, so I grabbed my new, favorite recipe book that Sandy and Jon had given to me for my 60th birthday, A Cowboy in the Kitchen: Recipes from Reata and Texas West of the Pecos, by Grady Spears and Robb Walsh and decided to try to make Buttermilk Biscuits, on page 97.

To set the mood, I put on Jim Keaveny's fabulous music, which I discovered when we were out in Terlingua with Sandy and Jon and then I grabbed all of the needed ingredients and then I followed the recipe directions carefully.

While I was cutting out the soon-to-be biscuits and placing them on the baking sheet, the phone rang and it was Kinky. After we had talked about the exciting, upcoming B. J Thomas Bonefit on November 26th, I told him about attempting to make homemade buttermilk biscuits and he says, "Sounds good. Can I have some?"

"Sure Kink, after I get my biscuits in the oven." Which made him laugh. "I'll be over there around noon with them..." And I didn't lie.

After Kinky had poured some honey on one of my fresh, hot-out-of-the-oven buttermilk biscuits and took a bite he basically said, "Nance, these are really great..." Which thrilled me, because that is exactly what Tony said, but he used the word really.

Late this afternoon, after our Open House or at 3:00, Trigger took us to Kerrville to run a few errands; get Tony's ears lowered, buy a picture frame for my Holstee Manifesto poster that arrived yesterday, to buy fabric for me to reupholster my couch in my writing cabin and to buy some groceries then we came home. And that is about it for today. 

Y'all have a great evening and please keep praying for us to get some more rain!