I'm Sorry Nance!

This morning, my really old friend, Bess, who is ninety years old, called at five-forty-five, and left a message for me to call her. Bless Bess, she is so sweet. I have known her for over ten years. We met because she loves animals, and our rescue ranch. Bess usually calls me about two to five times a day, to tell me that she is doing fine, and she sends her love to all of us.

When I heard her message, I got out of bed, and returned her call. Bess was fine. She just wanted to say hi. I was wide awake, so I fed our animals, then I did a little paperwork, before Tony took off for Medina.

At ten minutes till eight the phone rang. I figured it was Bess again, and was going to let the machine take the call. "Nancy, this is Carol. Are you there?"

"Hi Carol! It's me! What's up?"

"I'm heading to Bandera to ride horses with a friend, and I just saw a beautiful peacock, on the side of the road on 16—between your cut off and Benton Creek! I just wanted to let you know. I was thinking that it might have been one of your newly rescued peacocks."

"Carol, thanks for letting me know. Tony isn't here, but as soon as he gets home..."

"I will stop at the Old Timer and tell him about it. I'm nearly there."

"Great! Please tell Tony I said 'hi." We laughed. Then I asked Carol for some advice about my knee being sore. Carol told me that I should always take one day off a week from exercise, so my body could rest. I thanked her for her advise, and then we hung up on each other.

When Tony came home he said, "Nance, I didn't see any peacocks, but I did see an old wild turkey. I got a great picture of him, too." Then he picked up the phone, and punched in our neighbor's phone number. "Hi Sherry. I was callling about the peacocks. Do y'all still have the six new ones? Our friend, saw one on 16 this morning." There was a pause. "Great. Bye." After T. put the phone back into the cradle, he said, "It wasn't one of theirs, and Sherry said the birds were doing fine."

"That's good news," I said.

"Are we not eating breakfast this morning?" T. asked.

"We're not eating breakfast here," I said. "We're going to The Save Inn for breakfast. How does that sound? Carol told me that I should always take one day off a week from exercise, and I think that we need a break in our daily routine. Let's go to Kerrville and let Aaron and Josh take care of the chores today."

We arrived at Randy and Lisa's Save Inn Restaurant, a little before ten, and the two of us really had an enjoyable breakfast there! As always, the waitresses were friendly and fun, and our meals were delicious! And, the best part was—Tony talked to me about him starting up a walking program! I was thrilled!

After breakfast, Buttermilk took us to H.E.B., so we could pick up a few more groceries, then she brought us home.

This afternoon, I made Carol's pumpkin bread recipe, because my dear friend, Cindy P., was coming over for a visit. Cindy arrived about four-thirty. Right after she had gotten here—Kinky called. "Nance, we need to talk about..." Kinky was on a roll and had a lot of information to share with me!

"Kink, listen. I've got company over here right now, and this is not a..."

"I'm sorry, Nance," Kinky said. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I couldn't, because you wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise, Kink." We both started laughing.

After Cindy left the ranch, Tony and I went out to the garden, to cover up the plants, because we might have a light frost in the morning, even though the San Antonio weatherman, last week, swore that we were done with anymore freezes! And, he is now predicting another freeze for Tuesday morning, too! I hope not, and for the first time—I'm hoping he is wrong!

Y'all have a great evening!

We Missed The Bullet!

This morning I was up by six o'clock! After feeding our dogs and cat, while listening to The Harley Show, I decided to make a loaf of Carol's, I mean Cousin Nancy's Fairy Tail Pumpkin Bread! At 7:45, while it baked, I called the Rose 99.9, to do The Harley Show! His Pet Of The Week was Linda T. aka L.T.! Harley was great and it was a lot of fun!

When Tony returned from Medina, and walked into the trailer—the pumpkin bread came out of the oven! It smelled delicious!

After Tony and I drank our super smoothies for breakfast, our new photography friends: George, and his two assistants—Erin and Sara showed up at the rescue ranch! We invited them inside for Leisa and Rick's expensive organic coffee, and my 'fresh out of the oven' organic pumpkin bread. Guess what? They loved the coffee, and thought my (Carol's recipe) pumpkin bread was absolutely the most delicious pumpkin bread that they had ever eaten! I ate it up, and had to agree with them! Thank you Carol!

While they munched away, Tony got on my laptop, and showed them a couple of my Beckham videos. And, needless to say, there was much laughter. The five of us, visited inside the trailer for a little while, hoping that the thick morning fog would lift—but it didn't want to. I decided to call Kink. "Hi Kinky. I just made some delicious totally organic pumpkin bread this morning, and it is fantastic! I'm real proud of it. Would you like for me to bring you some?"

"Yes, Nancy, as long as it is—TOTALLY ORGANIC!" Kinky joked—sounding half awake. "You know that I only eat organic." Then we both started laughing! "Come on over and drink some coffee with me."

Our coffee pot, was now empty, and our new tres amigos went outside to set up their equipment, and I went over to the Lodge. Kinky and I had a fun visit, and he cleaned my plate of pumpkin bread! He loved it! Then Buttermilk took me home.

While George and his crew were setting up outside, I decided to do my 'Fast Four Mile Walking Marathon!' Fifty minutes later, I was done stomping, sidestepping, jogging and kicking with Leslie Sansone, and her fabuous walkers! I was so proud of myself—we're talking over twelve miles in three days! I'm addicted to her walking DVD's!

I'm really glad that I had done my walk when I did, because as soon as I removed Leslie's DVD from our player—lightning stuck—a little too close for comfort for me! Yikes! Tony and I quickly unplugged all of our electronic equipment, as the rain pelted the rescue ranch, with the much needed rain! We had one awesome thunder storm, too, that made our lights go off and on, a few times!

By noon, the violent storms had finally left us—headed for San Antone for their attack! Tony and I then plugged in all of our electronics to find out that Atacosa County was under siege, as blue skies and the sun shone over us! We missed the bullet—thank goodness!

We got nearly an inch of rain today! Y'all have a great evening!