The other day when he and Ellie came to visit us, I cooked Mr. Food's delicious (pigs-in-a-blanket) recipe—Dressed Up Weenie Wellingtons and they loved them even though they are vegetarians. Anyway, I am thrilled to get this recipe, because I've decided it is time for me to quit eating meat and be a vegetarian, after watching this show where the guest speaker basically said, "To be healthy eat live food and you will live. Eat dead food and you will die."
His statement hit me in the head like a brick, even though I have yet to be hit in the head by a brick—thank goodness. So the next time we go to Kerrville I am buying the ingredients to make mummy dogs.
This afternoon we received an awesome Christmas gift box from our dear friend Nancy D. and her sweet cat Theodora, who live up there, in Chicago.
Nancy and Theodora made some delicious homemade candy, a canister of Harry & David Chocolate-Peppermint Wafer Rolls and a box of Made In Italy Noccioghiotti Assorted Pralines that Tony and I are already fighting over.
Theodora and Nancy also sent Tony this really cool toothpick holder and they sent me a set of four, fabulous Egyptian cotton towels, like our mother's used to use in the kitchen.
Tony loves his cleverly concealed toothpick holder and I am thrilled to get the kitchen towels, because in my opinion those are the best kitchen towels ever made.
But the coolest gift Nancy and Theodora gave to me is the TEXAS U.F.O. LICENSE! Seriously, I love it and you can see why.
On the front of my A. Leon's Texas U.F.O. License I especially love that AREA-51 is highlighted in large, red letters and I am still laughing about the hilarious pertinent information provided. Such as:
BIRTHDATE: 10/23/1492
EXP. DATE: 10/23/3085
SEX: Yes
HEIGHT: 3'3"
WEIGHT: Weightless
HAIR: None
EYES: Black
Our dear friends also included two Hanuka presents for us to give to Kinky. So after Tony and I had stuffed our faces with their homemade candy, wafer rolls and assorted pralines I picked up the phone and punched in Kinky's cell phone number to let him know that we were going to be dropping off Nancy's and Theodora's presents.
I punched in Kinky's number twice and each time I got this recording "Hello, this is Gladys Goo...Please leave me a message and I will get back to you as soon as possible."
After apologizing to Ms. Gladys Whats-Her-Name twice, I then punched in Wolfmueller's Books phone number. "Hi Nancy," Sandy said.
"Hi Sandy....I just tried to call Kinky's cell phone twice and I got some frumpy-sounding woman named Gladys. Did Kinky change his cell phone number?"
"I don't think so," Sandy replied. "Hang up and I will call him and then call you right back." Click.
About a minute passed by and then our phone rang. "Nancy, I just called Kinky on his cell phone and talked to him. And you do have his correct number. I told him about you trying to call him. So he is waiting for you to call...."
After adios-ing Sandy, I punched in Kinky's cell phone number for the third time, but this time I heard, "Hey Nance! How are you?"
"Hi Kink...."
"Nance, I should be back at the ranch in a few hours...." After our funny conversation and then me telling him about needing to drop off Nancy's and Theodora's holiday gifts—Tony and I drove over to his ranch and we left his presents on the passenger's front seat in his truck, because The Friedmans were trying to get out his kitchen door, so they could come greet us and we did not want them to get out.
My (A. Leon's) Texas U.F.O. License is now safely tucked away in my purse and tomorrow I plan to buy the ingredients and make those vegan mummy veggie dogs and that is about it for tonight.
Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!
