Long Time Longmire! or TOYODA!

Yesterday, we mowed some more and now my back is aching, but that's okay, because I needed the exercise and the rescue ranch looks beautiful, with the exception of a few pens that still need mowing.

Right now it is 9:30 in the morning and a couple of our great volunteers, Kay and Jim, are already out there walking our dogs for us.

Before writing this I checked my e-mail. My dear friend Mari sent me an incredibly great video to watch about a beautiful, nine-year-old girl's performance on Hollands Got Talent and she was so talented it made me tear up, because you could feel the love. So if you would like to have a feel-good moment you can check it out by clicking here.

I have some exciting news to tell you about our upcoming Longmire—Texas Style video spoof. Finally, the stars have lined up for us: the date and time, the actor's and crew's availability to be at, a secret location, the first week of April, to get our dear friend and videographer, Gerry Olert, to shoot the last two scenes.

If you recall, we are making this spoof, in hopes that the real Longmire cast and crew will invite us to come to one of their sets, in Northern New Mexico, to watch them shoot a scene.

 After we have our wrap party, and Gerry goes and does his editing magic and we get to post it on YouTube, we are asking everyone that we know, including y'all that read my blog, to please help us make it go viral by cross-posting it to all of your friends.

And as a teaser (in hopes that y'all will help us, get it out there) here are a few pictures of our Vic, played by lovely Lisa and our Ruby, played by too-sweet Eileen and Little Debbie and me.

After our friends/volunteers walked our dogs we went to eat lunch, at the famous Apple Store, in Medina. Tony and I were the last to arrive, because he had to lock our gate and we also had to stop at two temporary signal lights on 16, because of road construction.

We parked Trigger, across the street from the Apple Store, next to June's car and before we went inside to eat, I took this picture of this cute bumper sticker, that is on June's Toyota's back window. 

Our lunch was delicious and fun, of course, because we did a lot of laughing. And when we got back home, I went Online to Amazon and immediately purchased two of the TOYODA bumper stickers, one for Chet to put on his Toyota and one for me to put on one of my guitar cases.

Late this afternoon I went over to Kinky's Lodge and I had a fun visit with him. We sat outside, on his porch, with The Friedmans while watching a few Hummingbirds test-the-water, in five of his five feeders.

Before I came back home, Kinky asked me to listen to his latest song that he has written, because Kent and Ruthie had loved it. So we went back into his office and sat down. When Kinky started to play his guitar and sing his song, Sophie, who was sitting under his desk, started rapidly scratching at the rug and Kinky, paused and asked her to please stop doing that. And she immediately stopped.

His beloved overweight Sophie, who definitely needs to exercise more or go to, a fat camp for dogs, started rapidly scratching the rug again. And Kink paused again and she immediately quit scratching the rug.

Well, throughout the singing of his beautiful song, Sophie continued to scratch the rug every time that he started singing. When the song ended I told Kinky that I loved the song, too and then I said, "Kinky, Sophie was scratching the rug, only because she wanted to play percussions with you." And that made Kinky laugh.

Well, it is now 4:30 and I must finish writing this, because it is beginning to thunder outside and that means that I need to go unplug everything now.

Y'all have a great evening!  

And, I Was Right!

Last night, I went to bed early, and thank goodness that I did! Last night we had two different electrical storms, and fortunately, I slept right through them, because I was so tired.

This morning, I woke up refreshed, unlike yesterday morning. After doing my morning chores, drinking breakfast with Tony—I walked eight fast miles, and really enjoyed it! And, I am planning on doing another eight miles tomorrow with Leslie.

After catching up on my paperwork, returning phone calls and e-mails—I made lunch for Tone and me. I made my version of Moo Goo Gai Pan—without the moo or the goo or the gai—it was all vegetables and rice! I used all of T.'s trailer-grown onions, too, and Tony cleaned his plate, with the help of Hank and Little Girl—they like Chinese food.

After cleaning up the kitchen, Trigger took us to Kerrville. Our first stop was at Wolfmueller's Books to see Jon and Sandy. "Hi, Tony and Nancy," Mary Jo said, as we entered the bookstore. We visited with her for a few minutes, and then we went back to the office to find Jon, Sandy wasn't there, because she was home decorating. We had a fun chat, and caught up with each other's news—then we left to go shopping.

While Tone filled up Trig, at the pumps, I speed shopped inside H.E.B gathering our supplies! When I was over in the produce section my cell phone rang. "Where are you?" Tony asked.

"By the avocados," I answered. Ten seconds later—so was T.! I tore off part of my shopping list and sent him shopping over on isle one, to get bananas, apples, kale and lemons, while I sacked up some ginger, Breton crackers, and some Laughing Cow cheese.

Tony and I met up on isle one, where the kale used to be, but there was no kale! He and I then searched for kale, but we never found any. I guess, they were out of kale.

On our way to the check out counter, I saw that H.E.B had 'drastically' cut their prices on some cute, plastic cups and plates, so I bought eight of each. I bought them, because when we have company, I sometimes run out of plates and glasses. I think I saved over nine dollars—even though I was out sixteen dollars!

As Tone and I were fixin' to check out our full cart, a man said, "Hi Tony and Cousin Nancy!" I figured that it was Les, but I was wrong—it was our good friend, Pat G.! We had a short, but fun visit with him, and then we left the store with our groceries, and Trigger brought us home.

After unloading all of the groceries, I surprised Tony! Normally, we put up the groceries together, but this time—I didn't help him. As he started putting away our supplies, I went into the bathroom, and returned with my hair dryer, and plugged it into a socket. "What are you fixin' to do with that?" T. asked.

"I'm going to heat up the labels on these plastic plates and glasses. Someone told me that if you heat up the labels, they will peel off easily." And I was right! The labels slid off with no problem! When I was done, I hand washed my new party of eight dinnerware, and then I hand dryed them. When I was done, I took them into Outer Space, and put them inside my new cabinet. Here's a picture of them!

Tony and I then went over to the Lodge—to check on the Friedmans, because Kinky was gone, and he wouldn't be back until around five.

The Friedmans were fine and glad to see us, but not as much as the Hummingbirds were! Kinky's feeders were empty, so Tony and I filled his feeders with baby blue, sugar water. Talk about a bunch of happy little hummers glad to see us!

As we headed back to the rescue ranch, just after going over the river, but before going through the woods—we saw our first snake of the year! Yikes! It was a three foot long—water moccasin! It was resting next to the bridge, and when it saw Trigger—it dove off into the water, and quickly disappeared—thank goodness! I'm scared to death of snakes, so the rest of our journey was spent in silence—as I tried to forget seeing that snake. Snakes are another thing I dislike about Texas summers.

Kinky called me, a few minutes ago, to thank us for filling up his feeders for him, and then he asked us to please give him a wake up call in the morning, at six-thirty, because he is doing Imus at seven-thirty—fifteen minutes before I do the Harley Show! I hope that y'all can catch us both!

Y'all have a great evening!