Yesterday was almost great. Tony and I met our friends for our monthly luncheon at Toucan Jim's, in Center Point.
During our fun lunch, Denise told us about frog poop, that she is constantly having to scrape off of her porch and statues .Kris, Jim, Deb and I started laughing and making jokes about frog poop, even though we had no idea what frog poop looks like.
When we had exhausted that interesting subject I told our friends about purchasing a new electronic device, that was going to be delivered to me when we returned home. I was all excited about getting it and we had a long discussion about iPads and Kindles.
While we were eating lunch or were laughing between bites, the song YMCA by The Village People, started playing. So Denise held up her arms making the Y, the M, the C and the A. We started laughing and then Kris, Deb and I joined her. And I am pretty sure that our husbands thought we had all gone temporarily insane.
As always our lunch with our good friends was a lot of fun and the food at Toucan Jim's was delicious.
When we got home my electronic device was in our mailbox! And after spending over four frustrating hours with it I pulled its plug and packed it back into its box. Then I went Online and canceled my order and filled out the return merchandise form, so I could get refunded.
By then it was past 7:30 and I was too exhausted from messing with It to post anything. So I spent the rest of my evening doing paperwork.
Today has started out great. Kinky's and our good friend, Simone, from Amsterdam, is coming over shortly so we can visit an catch up with each others news and I am looking forward to it, even though right now I am wishing that the I had time to take a short nap. And that is about it for today, because I plan to get as much writing in as possible.
Y'all have a great day and evening!
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Long In The Teeth! or Karin's & My Roundup!
Today has been fun, but because I will be turning sixty-years-old at midnight, I am feeling a little bit tired, which is normal, I guess for the elderly, but actually I am tired tonight, because of Tony's early birthday presents that he gave to me today—which I had asked him for, because I have wanted them for a very long time. Now, if I don't fall to sleep, from being outside late this afternoon, in the heat, for over three hours, using my birthday presents, I want to write about the last two days.
Last Friday morning Karin came out early and so did our fabulous volunteers, Jim, Lisa, Eileen, June and Ellen. After introducing Karin to everyone, Tony and I went back to doing our chores as they walked our dogs.
After they had walked our dogs, the volunteers took turns riding with Tone, in Kermit, so he could show them a midden, while we visited in Outer Space. As always, it was a fun visit, because these women are some of the funniest women I've ever known.
In between our laughter and good times, Lisa gave me her secret Banana Bread recipe, which I happily swore to her to never give out her recipe to anyone, but little does Lisa know that I have officially stolen it and am now calling it "Cousin Nancy's Best Banana Bread" recipe. And Lisa can't sue me, because her name is never mentioned in my mouth-watering recipe. Sorry Lisa. You're young and you will learn about me in time. : )
While Ellen and Lisa were gone with Tony, sweet Ellen asked me if she could treat me to lunch, with Karin and the Fab 4 joining us, tomorrow, for my birthday and of course, I said, "Yes! That sounds like a lot of fun..."
When it was time for "The Girls" to go, they invited us to join them for lunch in Kerrville, but we couldn't, because we had a tight schedule, because of a pig named Shirley. "We've only got enough time to go to Papa Don's Pizza & Wings, in Medina, to eat a delicious pizza, because Dr. Lindstrom is coming out at 2:00 to remove a fatty-tumor from Shirley and then go float Shalom's teeth, because she is long in the teeth and having trouble eating and...." I said.
At 1:30, Aaron arrived to help Tony help Dr. James and fifteen minutes later James arrived. Because I don't "do blood" I stayed inside the trailer and did paperwork, while Karin stood back and watched Shirley's operation.
While Dr. Lindstrom sewed up Shirley, I went outside to visit with Karin. "Nance, can you go round up Shalom for us and put her inside the corral to save us some time?" Tony asked, as he filled a feed bucket with some horse feed.
"Sure! Karin come and go with me. It will be fun," I said, as Karin jumped into Kermit's passenger seat.
Fifteen minutes later we returned to the rescue ranch. "We've got them in the corral!" I declared, proudly, as Dr. James was finishing packing up his medical stuff. Then Karin and I took off for the corral, because Tony and Aaron were climbing into his truck.
When we arrived the donkeys and Shalom were outside of the corral eating grass nearby. "What the hay!" I cursed, trying to figure out how they had gotten out. "Dang-it!" Were the words I sort of said, "That other gate over there is opened," as the men drove up and looked surprised.
Five minutes later, thanks to T., Shalom was penned up and they went to work on her teeth, as Karin and I stood nearby, visiting with the sweet donkeys.
Last Friday morning Karin came out early and so did our fabulous volunteers, Jim, Lisa, Eileen, June and Ellen. After introducing Karin to everyone, Tony and I went back to doing our chores as they walked our dogs.
After they had walked our dogs, the volunteers took turns riding with Tone, in Kermit, so he could show them a midden, while we visited in Outer Space. As always, it was a fun visit, because these women are some of the funniest women I've ever known.
In between our laughter and good times, Lisa gave me her secret Banana Bread recipe, which I happily swore to her to never give out her recipe to anyone, but little does Lisa know that I have officially stolen it and am now calling it "Cousin Nancy's Best Banana Bread" recipe. And Lisa can't sue me, because her name is never mentioned in my mouth-watering recipe. Sorry Lisa. You're young and you will learn about me in time. : )
While Ellen and Lisa were gone with Tony, sweet Ellen asked me if she could treat me to lunch, with Karin and the Fab 4 joining us, tomorrow, for my birthday and of course, I said, "Yes! That sounds like a lot of fun..."
When it was time for "The Girls" to go, they invited us to join them for lunch in Kerrville, but we couldn't, because we had a tight schedule, because of a pig named Shirley. "We've only got enough time to go to Papa Don's Pizza & Wings, in Medina, to eat a delicious pizza, because Dr. Lindstrom is coming out at 2:00 to remove a fatty-tumor from Shirley and then go float Shalom's teeth, because she is long in the teeth and having trouble eating and...." I said.
At 1:30, Aaron arrived to help Tony help Dr. James and fifteen minutes later James arrived. Because I don't "do blood" I stayed inside the trailer and did paperwork, while Karin stood back and watched Shirley's operation.
While Dr. Lindstrom sewed up Shirley, I went outside to visit with Karin. "Nance, can you go round up Shalom for us and put her inside the corral to save us some time?" Tony asked, as he filled a feed bucket with some horse feed.
"Sure! Karin come and go with me. It will be fun," I said, as Karin jumped into Kermit's passenger seat.
Fifteen minutes later we returned to the rescue ranch. "We've got them in the corral!" I declared, proudly, as Dr. James was finishing packing up his medical stuff. Then Karin and I took off for the corral, because Tony and Aaron were climbing into his truck.
When we arrived the donkeys and Shalom were outside of the corral eating grass nearby. "What the hay!" I cursed, trying to figure out how they had gotten out. "Dang-it!" Were the words I sort of said, "That other gate over there is opened," as the men drove up and looked surprised.
Five minutes later, thanks to T., Shalom was penned up and they went to work on her teeth, as Karin and I stood nearby, visiting with the sweet donkeys.
Twenty minutes later, after thanking and paying Dr. Lindstrom and Aaron, Tony drove Karin's car for her and I followed them in Trigger to go to Carol's, so we could caravan to Center Point, because she needed to pick up some hay for her horses and since Toucan Jim's was nearby, we went there to drink a beer and to show Karin the Hill Country's version of "Margaritaville" in Texas and we had a great time. Then we adios-ed each other and went different directions, so we could all get home safely before dark-thirty.
It is now 9:40, my bedtime, so that is about it for tonight. Sorry, Mari and good night, y'all.
Y'all have a great evening and please keep praying that we get some more rain!
To Be Continued....
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
No Store Does More! Part II!
Continued from yesterday....
Early Monday morning Tony and I were outside feeding the dogs and cleaning their pens before the sun came up and the dogs seemed to enjoy their surprise sunrise breakfast. When we were done outside I had only thirty minutes to get cleaned up, so I could get on the road by 8:30.
At 8:24 I kissed T. inside the trailer and told him, "I love you. Wish me luck!" and as I opened the front door to leave I closed the door and headed to the kitchen table. "I almost forgot to take my "Rescue Remedy" drops that Ellen bought for me at Whole Foods, to help me stay calm when Sandy drives us to San Antone." Then I put five droplets of the "Rescue Remedy" into a glass of water and swallowed. "Now, I am ready to leave," I said, as I slipped the little bottle into my purse, in case Sandy's driving drove me to drinking—more drops.
When Trigger and I arrived at Wolfmueller's Book Store I was six minutes early and Patty and Sandy were ready to go and get our road trip started. "Nancy, you ride in the backseat, so you can't see the speedometer and Patty, you sit up here with me," Sandy said, as she handed me a plastic bag, "I put a few magazines and maps about Terlingua for you to read, when we get on the freeways."
"Thank you, Sandy." Then we climbed into Sandy's SUV, buckled up, waved goodbye to Jon and took off and we were already laughing before Sandy pulled out of the parking. After we had all caught up with each other's latest news Sandy and I started telling Patty about our exciting, upcoming adventure to Terlingua and Patty thought it sounded real cool.
Everything was fun and fine until we got on the entrance ramp of I-10, at Comfort, because Sandy floored her "Car With No Name" and that's when I opened up the sack of articles to read about Terlingua, as we sped past one car and then many cars sped past us. As I clutched my hands, and tried to relax the "Rescue Remedy" kicked-in, thank goodness, because I instantly became fearless of Sandy's race car driving skills and the San Antone traffic, for the rest of the day. Thank you, Ellen!
As we approached the Alamo City limits we decided to go to Whole Foods first and I must admit that I was extremely impressed how well Sandy knew her way around the streets of San Antonio.
When the three of us walked into Whole Foods we grabbed grocery carts and then we followed each other up the isles as Sandy and Patty suggested some of their favorite foods I might want to try. I had a blast at Whole Foods, strolling the isles of healthy food with my friends as we laughed about this and that. And I ended up buying Sha Sha Ginger Snaps, Hatch Chile Goat Cheese, Amy's Lentil Soup, 365 Organic German Mustard, Near East mixes: Couscous Toasted Pine Nut, Wild Mushroom and Herb, and Quinoa Blend Roasted Red Pepper and Basil, organic bread, cheddar cheese and Patty's favorite Acai Green Superfruit Tea made by The Republic of Tea.
When we arrived at P. F. Changs for an early lunch, around 11:00, the restaurant was nearly empty except for ten people, sitting at three tables, so one of their young, pretty waitresses walks up to us, who was obviously having a bad day, led us across the room to a table, in a dark corner, because it was right next to a giant, hanging, black, plastic, temporary wall covering and the three of us looked at each other and one of them said, "We don't want to sit here could we please sit somewhere else? Like a booth?"
She tried to make a smile, but she couldn't pull it off and then she led us over to a booth and then walked away. Even though I was feeling no pain because of Ellen's magic drops, I was worried about the waitress' bad vibes souring our lunch, but thank goodness I didn't have to worry long, because the nicest woman, wearing a big smile, came over to our table, introduced herself to us, handed us menus and then she asked us what we wanted to drink and then she went to get our drinks and that's when we let out a group sigh of relief that we had a fun waitress and lunch was going to be fun after all.
As we drank our iced teas we decided to order several dishes and share them and when the friendly waitress returned to take our order Patty surprised us when she said, "I am treating my friends to lunch and we want to share the dishes. We'd like to have Dynamite Chicken, Lettuce Wraps.."
As we dined at P. F. Chang's their lunch crowd filled up the restaurant and the food we ate was absolutely delicious and the many topics of conversation were interesting to say the least and were filled with laughter.
Our last stop was at Target, because Sandy and Patty love Target and also because I have not been inside a Target store since 1995, when I left Austin and moved to Utopia. When we walked inside Target I said, "Wow! Kerrville needs a Target store. I'de forgotten how cool Target is," and then we started shopping together.
An hour later we were ready to check out and the coolest thing that I purchased was a small, pretty, pink George Foreman Champ for fifteen dollars, because now I could start grilling vegetables, etc. again because I can't grill outside because of our drought and the Burn Ban effect.
As Sandy drove us home all we could talk about was how much fun we had had and what we might do the next time when Patty returns to Kerrville and when we reached Comfort and got off of I-10 it was no big deal to me, because those Rescue Remedy drops had worked and had temporarily cured me of my fear of traffic.
When we were halfway through Comfort Sandy gave Patty me and me a historical driving tour of the town and it was quite interesting and then when we got to Center Point she surprised us. "Y'all, have got to see this place!" she said, as she turned off into a parking lot, "Y'all are going to love it..."
And Sandy had not lied to us, because the second that Patty and I walked into Toucan Jim's outdoor beautiful garden restaurant and grill we fell in love with Toucan Jim's! "This is what Fort Lauderdale looks like," Patty exclaimed, as Jimmy Buffet music filled the air, as we admired the palm trees, plants and brightly painted beach furniture and bar, "Just like Fort Lauderdale."
"I feel like we just walked into a time warp," I noted, "From dry, hot Texas to Margaritaville."
"Sandy!" a man hollered from a table near the bar, "I want to buy you ladies a beer," he said as he stood up and they hugged each other.
"Y'all this Mark, he and his wife are dear friends of ours. Mark I want you to meet my friends Patty and Nancy..."
A few minutes later Mark brought us our drinks and sat down at our table to visit with us and he had us laughing so hard my back started aching, so I excused myself and went into the restroom and swallowed a few more magic drops in hopes that it would relax my back the way it had relaxed me.
Even though Mark wanted to buy us another round of drinks Sandy declined, because she knew we needed to get home. And the rest of the way back to Wolfmuellers Books all we talked about was what a fun time we had all had.
When I got home Tony was glad to see me and me him and as he helped me carry in my shopping bags I told him all about my fun day and when he was helping me unpack my sacks he started laughing. "You bought a pink George Foreman grill! No way I'm going to cook on it," he teased, and that was not a lie, because yesterday morning after I had used it to cook breakfast and lunch and had told him how much I loved it—he took me to Walmart and bought me a giant George Foreman grill, as an early birthday present! And I love it and have named it George.
Early Monday morning Tony and I were outside feeding the dogs and cleaning their pens before the sun came up and the dogs seemed to enjoy their surprise sunrise breakfast. When we were done outside I had only thirty minutes to get cleaned up, so I could get on the road by 8:30.
At 8:24 I kissed T. inside the trailer and told him, "I love you. Wish me luck!" and as I opened the front door to leave I closed the door and headed to the kitchen table. "I almost forgot to take my "Rescue Remedy" drops that Ellen bought for me at Whole Foods, to help me stay calm when Sandy drives us to San Antone." Then I put five droplets of the "Rescue Remedy" into a glass of water and swallowed. "Now, I am ready to leave," I said, as I slipped the little bottle into my purse, in case Sandy's driving drove me to drinking—more drops.
When Trigger and I arrived at Wolfmueller's Book Store I was six minutes early and Patty and Sandy were ready to go and get our road trip started. "Nancy, you ride in the backseat, so you can't see the speedometer and Patty, you sit up here with me," Sandy said, as she handed me a plastic bag, "I put a few magazines and maps about Terlingua for you to read, when we get on the freeways."
"Thank you, Sandy." Then we climbed into Sandy's SUV, buckled up, waved goodbye to Jon and took off and we were already laughing before Sandy pulled out of the parking. After we had all caught up with each other's latest news Sandy and I started telling Patty about our exciting, upcoming adventure to Terlingua and Patty thought it sounded real cool.
Everything was fun and fine until we got on the entrance ramp of I-10, at Comfort, because Sandy floored her "Car With No Name" and that's when I opened up the sack of articles to read about Terlingua, as we sped past one car and then many cars sped past us. As I clutched my hands, and tried to relax the "Rescue Remedy" kicked-in, thank goodness, because I instantly became fearless of Sandy's race car driving skills and the San Antone traffic, for the rest of the day. Thank you, Ellen!
As we approached the Alamo City limits we decided to go to Whole Foods first and I must admit that I was extremely impressed how well Sandy knew her way around the streets of San Antonio.
When the three of us walked into Whole Foods we grabbed grocery carts and then we followed each other up the isles as Sandy and Patty suggested some of their favorite foods I might want to try. I had a blast at Whole Foods, strolling the isles of healthy food with my friends as we laughed about this and that. And I ended up buying Sha Sha Ginger Snaps, Hatch Chile Goat Cheese, Amy's Lentil Soup, 365 Organic German Mustard, Near East mixes: Couscous Toasted Pine Nut, Wild Mushroom and Herb, and Quinoa Blend Roasted Red Pepper and Basil, organic bread, cheddar cheese and Patty's favorite Acai Green Superfruit Tea made by The Republic of Tea.
When we arrived at P. F. Changs for an early lunch, around 11:00, the restaurant was nearly empty except for ten people, sitting at three tables, so one of their young, pretty waitresses walks up to us, who was obviously having a bad day, led us across the room to a table, in a dark corner, because it was right next to a giant, hanging, black, plastic, temporary wall covering and the three of us looked at each other and one of them said, "We don't want to sit here could we please sit somewhere else? Like a booth?"
She tried to make a smile, but she couldn't pull it off and then she led us over to a booth and then walked away. Even though I was feeling no pain because of Ellen's magic drops, I was worried about the waitress' bad vibes souring our lunch, but thank goodness I didn't have to worry long, because the nicest woman, wearing a big smile, came over to our table, introduced herself to us, handed us menus and then she asked us what we wanted to drink and then she went to get our drinks and that's when we let out a group sigh of relief that we had a fun waitress and lunch was going to be fun after all.
As we drank our iced teas we decided to order several dishes and share them and when the friendly waitress returned to take our order Patty surprised us when she said, "I am treating my friends to lunch and we want to share the dishes. We'd like to have Dynamite Chicken, Lettuce Wraps.."
As we dined at P. F. Chang's their lunch crowd filled up the restaurant and the food we ate was absolutely delicious and the many topics of conversation were interesting to say the least and were filled with laughter.
Our last stop was at Target, because Sandy and Patty love Target and also because I have not been inside a Target store since 1995, when I left Austin and moved to Utopia. When we walked inside Target I said, "Wow! Kerrville needs a Target store. I'de forgotten how cool Target is," and then we started shopping together.
An hour later we were ready to check out and the coolest thing that I purchased was a small, pretty, pink George Foreman Champ for fifteen dollars, because now I could start grilling vegetables, etc. again because I can't grill outside because of our drought and the Burn Ban effect.
As Sandy drove us home all we could talk about was how much fun we had had and what we might do the next time when Patty returns to Kerrville and when we reached Comfort and got off of I-10 it was no big deal to me, because those Rescue Remedy drops had worked and had temporarily cured me of my fear of traffic.
When we were halfway through Comfort Sandy gave Patty me and me a historical driving tour of the town and it was quite interesting and then when we got to Center Point she surprised us. "Y'all, have got to see this place!" she said, as she turned off into a parking lot, "Y'all are going to love it..."
And Sandy had not lied to us, because the second that Patty and I walked into Toucan Jim's outdoor beautiful garden restaurant and grill we fell in love with Toucan Jim's! "This is what Fort Lauderdale looks like," Patty exclaimed, as Jimmy Buffet music filled the air, as we admired the palm trees, plants and brightly painted beach furniture and bar, "Just like Fort Lauderdale."
"I feel like we just walked into a time warp," I noted, "From dry, hot Texas to Margaritaville."
"Sandy!" a man hollered from a table near the bar, "I want to buy you ladies a beer," he said as he stood up and they hugged each other.
"Y'all this Mark, he and his wife are dear friends of ours. Mark I want you to meet my friends Patty and Nancy..."
A few minutes later Mark brought us our drinks and sat down at our table to visit with us and he had us laughing so hard my back started aching, so I excused myself and went into the restroom and swallowed a few more magic drops in hopes that it would relax my back the way it had relaxed me.
Even though Mark wanted to buy us another round of drinks Sandy declined, because she knew we needed to get home. And the rest of the way back to Wolfmuellers Books all we talked about was what a fun time we had all had.
When I got home Tony was glad to see me and me him and as he helped me carry in my shopping bags I told him all about my fun day and when he was helping me unpack my sacks he started laughing. "You bought a pink George Foreman grill! No way I'm going to cook on it," he teased, and that was not a lie, because yesterday morning after I had used it to cook breakfast and lunch and had told him how much I loved it—he took me to Walmart and bought me a giant George Foreman grill, as an early birthday present! And I love it and have named it George.
After we left Walmart we stopped at H-E-B to quickly get a few groceries and as were checking out a nice friendly woman handed me a copy of H-E-B's August "My Texas Life" magazine and as we walked to Trigger I flipped through the pages and nearly flipped out when I saw another full one page ad for our rescue ranch. "Tony, I can't believe this! I love H-E-B so much for helping us, again. I can't wait to show it to Kinky...."
As Trigger took us home I said, "You know Whole Foods and Target are great stores, but H-E-B is the very best in Texas, because "No Store Does More." Thank you, H-E-B! We love you!
Y'all have a great evening and please keep praying for rain for us!
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