Birds of a Feather! or A Texas Thing!

The other day I posted about Henry Standing (on the table top) Bear with pictures.

So our dear friend Fay, in Toronto, sent me a couple of pictures of Blake Shelton aka Ranger and Henry's twin sister, Miss Moneypenny, making use of table tops, too. She wrote that it must be a Texas thing.

(FYI: Fay & Ian adopted Blake and Miss Moneypenny from our rescue ranch.) Ranger is the giant black dog and Miss Moneypenny looks exactly like Hen.

Y'all have a great day & evening and keep on laughing!

It's Official!

Two days ago my Last Resort metal signs arrived! I was thrilled and could not wait to hang them up, but because it was so cold with nasty weather and because we were working extra hours—it had to be postponed. So let's just say that I was not a happy camper about my signs.

Today has been great. Tony and I worked this morning at Escondida Resort & Spa and a few minutes ago after we got home the sun was shining and it almost felt warm outside, so Tony volunteered to help me put my signs up.

First he put one of the signs inside the tiny cabin and then we went outside to so he could put up the other sign. Here are the before and after pictures of the outdoor sign.

So it is official now—The Last Resort has been named. And I totally love it!

Y'all have a great day & evening and keep on laughing!

Table Top!

Yesterday before Tony and I went to Kerrville to run errands I went outside, on the porch, to bring Henry Standing Bear inside and he made me laugh out loud.

So I skipped back inside the house and grabbed my camera, in hopes that Henry would stay put. Then I went back outside and took this picture of Henry Standing (on top of the table) Bear.

On our way to Kerrville Tony and I were talking about the cold front that was due to blow in within the hour.

When we left Big Foot Ranch it was 71 degrees outside and twenty minutes later when we arrived in Kerrville it was 50 degrees and it was very windy. So to say the least—we ran our errands in record time, so we could get back home and start a fire in our wood burning stove.

Last night as the temperature outside dropped steadily, I relaxed and watched the movie The Art of Racing In The Rain. Omg, it was incredibly great and the story line stayed close to Garth Stein's best selling book. So I highly recommend this great movie to everyone.

Before I went to bed the temperature outside was already 30 degrees and it was starting to sleet, so I put another log on the fire and started the faucets slow dripping.

Henry woke me up around 4:30 in the morning, because he needed to go outside and I am glad that he did. 

It was 27 degrees outside and 63 degrees inside, so I added a couple of logs to the fire and then checked the sinks to make sure they were still dripping. 

Because I was wide awake by now I decided to go ahead and stay up, but Henry went back to bed. I made myself a cup of coffee. And because The Cabin was so quiet in the wee hours of the morning I decided to write until Tony got up. I quit writing at 5:30.

As I finish writing this it is only 30 degrees outside and The Cabin's temperature is a cozy 76 degrees. I just checked the rain gauge, because of all of the sleet and it hardly registered any precipitation.

Then I looked outside at the barn and saw that icicles had formed on the roof's edge, so I took this picture.

Y'all have a great (day) evening and keep on laughing!

Stuck!

Today has been great. This morning we worked next door and in a few hours I am going back over to Escondida Resort to work a few hours this evening.

Yesterday, I decided to paint a sign for my writing cabin. If y'all remember I was going to call it The Dog House.

Anyway, while I was waiting for my board to dry out (It was misting yesterday—not raining) I kept thinking about the name that I was giving to my writing cabin and I decided that there had to be a better name for it, because the theme of my decorating has turned out to be "a cozy cabin in a forest (backyard) and it is all about bears—not dogs.

After spending about an hour coming up with possible names I came up with the name The Gummy Bear Retreat. Because I wear dentures and bear was in the name. I liked it and it made me laugh, but the more I thought about it—it still wasn't right. So back to the drawing board.

Possible names kept floating in and out of my head all afternoon, but none of them stuck. Some were cute and some were funny, but I still wasn't wild about any of them, because the name had to be perfect and it had to make me laugh and make my friends laugh, too.

Around 3:30, I had a light bulb moment! I came up with the perfect name for my writing cabin. I was more than thrilled about the name, so I went Online to BuildASign.com and ordered this metal sign to hang outside on the cabin wall. Here's the sign that will be arriving next Wednesday! It says it all—it's absolutely perfect.

Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!

Warning!

This morning Mari sent me an e-mail warning me that it is M.I.R. (Mercury In Retrograde) Time.
Her words: "This explains a LOT!"

I am relieved to know this depressing information, because like Mari—this does explain a lot.

After reading Mari's e-mail I went to the Old Farmer's Almanac and sadly discovered that Mercury will be in retrograde until November 20th. But the good news is it should not wreak havoc with Thanksgiving Day celebrations.

Y'all have a great day and keep on laughing!

From Bob In New Mexico!

Today has been great. I had a lot of fun at work and so did Tony. Seriously, we love Escondida Resort and all of the staff.

When we got home this afternoon there was a strange package in the mailbox and when Tony gave it to me, he said, "You've got something from Bob in New Mexico?" Then he asked, "Who is Bob in New Mexico and why did he send you something?"

After I had quit laughing and I had explained about Bob I opened the package and burst out laughing when I saw the contents.

I know my dear friend Mari sent this to me from New Mexico, because I had recognized her home address. Also because she and The NoMads went to a dog event in Albuquerque this past week.

After I put on the adorable socks, I put the cute, little alien inside the jar with Bob and then I took these pictures.

Then I named Bob's new green girlfriend Bobbie McGee. And I am going to call them The Bobby McGees or The Bobbsey Twins, because they look so much alike they could pass as brother and sister.

And that is about it for tonight. But before I sign-off on this post tonight I do want to thank Mari for thinking of poor, ole lonely Bob inside a jar by himself and—me and Bobby McGee.

Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!

Kinky & Me!

Tony and I have been busy working. If we weren't working next door, at the fabulous Escondida Resort, we were working outside over here or inside my cabin or running numerous errands in Kerrville, etc. so my excuse for not writing much lately—is at night I've just been too tired after working and then trying to work on writing two books simultaneously.

And yes, I said two books. I've almost finished writing the 3rd novella, but it keeps writing itself and more and more pages are stacking up so fast—it is now just a few pages shy of actually being a book and not a novella.

The other book that I've started working on is non-fiction. I was going to keep it a secret, but a few weeks ago, within a five day frame period, after several of my friends (out of nowhere) suggested that I write a book about Kinky and me—I took it as a sign.

Speaking of signs, this morning while Tony was working next door I went to Kerrville and picked up two more metal signs that I had made for The Cabin and my writing cabin.

But before I show you those funny signs, I want to show you pictures of my writing cabin's progress, because after I built the drainboard Tony installed the bar sink and did the plumbing for me and I love it. Also, I've done a little more decorating. So here are updated pictures.

I love my tiny writing cabin so much and so does Tony and our dogs. Even though I am not completely finished decorating it I love going out there with our four-leggers to write, because it feels so cozy.

Before I sign-off on this post, here are the pictures of my two latest signs that I've already screwed to the walls of my writing cabin and The Cabin. And I hope that they make you laugh out loud.

Y'all have a great evening and keep on laughing!