The Way He Were!

This morning it started raining before six o'clock! While Tony was in Medina, drinking coffee with his friends, I fed our menagerie, and then did some paperwork, and was caught up with it by the time Tony got home!

I fixed breakfast for Tony, Aaron, Ben and me. The guys had eggs, beans and hash browned potatoes, and we all drank smoothies, while it continued to rain outside! "Ben, did you watch Marley and Me last night?"

"Sorta, Nance," Ben replied. "I first watched the documentary on the Grateful Dawg..."

"Didn't you love it!" I interrupted.

"Yes, I did. David Grisman and Jerry Garcia were incredible..."

"So what about Marley?" I interrupted, again.

"I started watching it, and got tired, so I didn't watch the ending. I wasn't in the mood to cry," Ben said, followed by a laugh. After breakfast the guys went outside to work, while T. and I covered up all of the plants in the garden—so if it hailed, our plants would be safe. Fortunately, it never hailed today.

After helping Tony in the garden, I walked five miles, inside the trailer.

Around eleven-thirty Kinky called. "Nance, is everything okay at the ranch? I've seen a weather forecast and it looks like y'all are having some super storms."

"We're fine Kink and so far, we have received over a half of an inch of rain! Where are you?"

"We were in Fort Worth last night, and now I am in Dallas to do another cigar promotion."

"How was Fort Worth?" I asked, hoping that he loved that city as much as I do.

"Fort Worth was great! I always enjoy going there..."

At twelve-thirty, I fixed lunch for the four of us and the guys loved it! They ate all of their vegetables, too ! We're talking sauteed onion, yam, bell pepper, carrot, and zucchini, along with a salad made up of radishes, carrots and kale.

This afternoon, as big puddles were forming outside—I feng shui-ed my office! It took me over thirty minutes, and I am so glad that I did, because I found some of my lost pictures! When I found them inside a folder, where they should not have been, I sat down at my desk and smiled as I looked at them.

Several of them were taken at my mini-ranch in Utopia. There were pictures of Yoda, Chili, Thunder, Little Girl, Hank and Mr. Magoo, swimming and playing in my big stock tank. There were also a few of Thunder, with our duck, Kathy. The dogs all looked so young and happy. I figure that I must have taken them back in 1996 or '97. Tony loved looking at them, and I can't wait to show them to Kinky! He will love the ones of Gooie!

I then put those pictures where they belonged, and that's when I found some pictures of Tony and me, that our friend Andy Reisberg, from Dallas, had taken of us, on July 8, 2005! Laugh out loud, I was bigger than a barn, back then, so I am not going to show you my picture, but I am going to show you Tony's! I absolutely love it! In fact, I think that I am going to get a poster made of it, and hang it in the Space Ship! Y'all have a great evening!

Am I lucky or what!

P.S. This evening, I asked Ben if he had returned Marley and Me, and his answer was no—he had forgotten. "It's no big deal, I need to go over to the Lodge, to check on Perky, and I will get it."

"No Nancy," Aaron said. "I'll watch it tonight. I need a good cry!" We all laughed!

One, Two, Three!

This morning, I phoned Kinky, because he had asked for a seven o'clock wake up call. At seven-up, I made the first of four telephone calls to the Lodge. At seven-fifteen, Kinky answered his phone and thanked me for reaching out and touching him. After that, I did my chores, fixed breakfast, did the four fast miles walk, took care of my paperwork, and then returned numerous phone calls. Then I decided to take a much needed rescue ranch break.

I took Hazel out of the closet, and we into Outer Space. Within four minutes, she had Outer Space sparkling! Before going inside, I decided to clean up our front porch, too. First, I removed a bucket load of empty flower pots, two bags of inexpensive bird seed, a sky blue can of paint, and some tools—that had collected on the table. Then I did something that most people can't claim to have ever done—I vacuumed the outside wall of our trailer! It was covered with old cobwebs. Then I vacuumed up the expensive birdseed, that had fallen onto our porch.

When we were done—the front porch looked great—no clutter! Hazel and I had feng shui-ed it! Yeah! Before we went inside, Tony and Aaron drove up in Kermit. "Nance, the porch looks great," Tony said, and Aaron agreed with Tony. We talked about a couple of our dogs, and what we needed to do, when I spotted a big black wasp—trying to make a nest on the porch ceiling!

"Oh no!" I said, as I pointed to its location—right above our window.

"So much for blue paint," Aaron remarked.

"Aaron, the sky blue paint works—this wasp is simply stupid or sick, that's all!" I said, in defense. "This is the very first black wasp to do this! Here Tony please take this, and let Hazel suck up the wasp!"

Aaron didn't like my idea, but not as much as T. did. "On the count of three," I said. "I will turn Hazel on, and then do it real fast! Okay? One, two, three!" Hazel immediately came to life, Tone hesitated for a couple of seconds, and then he stuck the long wand up to the ceiling—swhoosh—the black wasp was gone, and so was its soon to be wannabe nest! "Thank you, Tony." Tony said nothing.

The men then left the porch, jumped into Kermit and quickly sped away. After I had unplugged Hazel, from the wall socket inside, and was wrapping up the electrical cord, I realized that I could not empty the nearly full bagless vacuum bucket, for several days—because that angry black wasp might still be alive in there—making plans to get even with me! That really sucked.

After Hazel went back into the closet, I made lunch for Tony and me. We had organic chicken, asparagus soup and some of my delicious beans. When my kitchen was cleaned, I returned some new phone calls. After that I went outside to the garden to see Tony. He was busy planting his new seedlings, so I got inspired and decided to plant my Fairy Tale Pumpkin seeds, courtesy of Grace A., who gave me the giant pumpkin, and Carol V., who did the dirty work for me—cutting up the gigantic thing, cooking it, and removing all of the seeds, which she shared with me—along with a half of a loaf of her delicious pumpkin bread, and several bags of cooked pumpkin meat!

I can't wait to plant the pumpkin seedlings into the new "Cousin Nancy's Fairy Tale Pumpkin Patch," which is now located in the alley, right next to our front yard!

Y'all have a great evening! Tone and I are fixin' to go outside to visit with Beckham, and feed him a few grapes. I love that little wild hog. I'm going to really miss him, but I am so happy that he is going to have a really great life, at the Trails End Guest House, just outside of Kerrville.