Stay tuned for the Rematch

Sunday night - the only two poeple that matter will be me & Dee Snyder.

The first time you came to Pryor you kicked my ass and sent me screaming back to my tent like a little girl.

Then I saw your caffine deprived ass on Gone Country and realized that you are not the devil... you are just a man....

and now you are coming back to Rocklahoma....

and THE REMATCH IS ON!!!!

Summer Blogging

I need an extra 5 minutes a day... In a week that would add up to over a half hour - more than enough time to get a couple of blogs down. Of course you and I both know that I would squander an extra 5 minutes - just as I squander the actual time the good lord gave me. (PS unrelated to anything - does anyone else thing the burger king guy is CREEPY???) But I can dream about having that time and using it for good and not evil.

Summer is flying by and there is apparently nothing to do about it. My birthday was last week and it came and went with minimal fan far, luckily. I did have to wear the proverbial sombrero twice in one week (once the sombrero was literal) which was a first. Country fever has come and gone (bye bye red dirt) and so has the fourth of july. Now I stare down Rocklahoma event and the whole thing will be over before you know it....

Where is summer going??? STOP! SLOW DOWN! WHOA SUMMER, EASY GIRL!

Blondes have more fun!!!

I think it is official. I had a hair appointment this evening. After my second sit through the 20 minute dye routine in an effort to cover up the line that showed up where my roots were - the unveiling occurred. I was blonde. No I mean really blonde! LOL. I've always been varying levels of blonde, and getting blonder all the time - so this is not a departure on a massive magnatude - but I don't think i've actually hit the Platinum level previously - but after another glance in the mirror and quick google of the term "Platinum Blonde" - I think i'm officially there!!

Therefore there is only 1 thing to do. Get out there and show it off - play it up and have some summer fun. You know what they say.... Blonde's do have more fun **wink**

All MJ all the time!

I've tried to avoid the coverage of all Michael Jackson all the time! which seems to be on ever single networks and in fact I've done a good job. I was a child of the 80s and so I was a fan of beat it and thriller when I was a kid. But tonite I got caught (accidently but like a train wreck I can't turn off) watching a 2003 NBC interview and it confirmed my previous thoughts. I hate that anyone is dead - but seriously, was that man not a freak? come on, just a little bit? yeah, I'm afraid that he was. Weird. Very weird.

Where to begin

My cracked out rambling catch up blog.....

Should I begin with all the fun I had with family over Memorial day? I should as there was shopping and riding and kareoke and fun fun fun....

Now doesn't that look like some REAL fun???!!!! Sadly that seems so long ago now and summer is full swing upon us - it's HOT HOT HOT but please note that I am not complaining - I am simply stating facts. I will take HOT HOT HOT over even chilly any day of the week!!! I love the heat - turn it up. My garden is faring okay in the heat - but the grass in my yard is already starting to suffer. Poor horses. At least they not standing on concrete - that would suck, speaking of concrete Country Fever sure was hot - at least in a temperature sort of way!! Musically it was HOT too - but I think only me and three other people thought so! I absolutely love the music they had this year and enjoyed seeing them. I especially enjoyed the fact that they were private shows just for me and no body else, well i guess techincally they were for everyone else - who cared to buy a ticket, but i'm guessing there weren't that many who did. I could go on and on about the way I think it should have been done - but it's not my deal. I did however very much enjoy Robert Earl Keen, Mike McClure, Reckless Kelly, Jack Ingram, and Jerry Jeff Walker. I only saw tidbits of the other acts - though Cross and Stoney seem to be puttin on a good show and having a great time. I certainly loved that the music i was hearing was stuff I knew and loved. Ohhhh and the bestest part about the whole weekend was that I got my book signed... You know the one - the Dancehalls and Dreamers book that Pat did - well ive already had Pat sign it but I really really wanted each artist to sign it in their spot (it features different texas acts at different texas dancehalls) SO!!! I totally got the hook up to get it signed. Sadly I didnt get to see them sign it - but heard all about how impressed they were that the book was there. I got Robert Earl (who signed twice, once with an arrow to his picture - like i don't know who REK is!!!) and Wade Bowen and JACK INGRAM who put "Johnanna :heart:" ---sigh--- anyway I got Ray Wyle Hubbard!! and Cross Canadian and Randy Rogers Band and all I really lack is Kevin Fowler and Cory Morrow - both who will be easy enough! (that will Willie unsigned, but if i didn't get it last year I just don't know how i can ever get it)... Isn't that awesome - okay, well it's awesome to me. REK and JJW they really are like the Willie/Waylon/Cash of the Texas Red Dirt Movement and I loved seeing both of them again! I enjoyed everyone I saw - plus it was good to hang with friends old and new - as one of my Fav Volunteers said to me - this is getting to be like a Reunion - where you see faces you don't see any other time! There are attendees who have never missed a year - and who I only see those 4 days a year. Plus, we all know my affinity for the Blue Shirts (security boys) I love getting to know them and having fun during the event....

See i've already forgotten the sore feet and sore legs and sore knees and I've almost caught up on my sleep too.

Well, I really really need to be working - the reason i haven't been blogging is because i've been trying to play catch up - and i still aint caught up... but I did need to get this down before people started thinking I was dead! Country fever has my sweat and my blood - but they can't have my tears or my life LOL...

Okay, that's all that got time for right now

Carry on.....

"Knock Knock" - Can Colt Come out & Play??

Answered the door about 7:00 pm last night to two young girls who had been fans of colt puppy since about 2 years ago when they came by peddling cookies or other school supporting treats. It was not the treats they remembered - it was the big black dog named colt who did all the cool tricks. After that first encounter they would occassionally knock on the door and no matter who would answer the door - they would say "can colt come out and play?"

I had been expecting that knock for about six months now and last night it finally came. Their little faces just looked crushed and one of them finally said - I just don't know what to say. The other admitted that she hadn't seen colt outside when they driven by or when she was in school (as the school is right next door - literally).

They soon busied themselves playing with the new kittens - all 100 of them, that are so full of life and all over the garage and now the porch as well.

Anyway, it was both painful but also sweet to know that it wasn't just in my eyes that he was such a cool dog!

From Lobster to Baked Chicken

I'm soooo behind on my blogging - I have lots of pictures and good times to catch everyone up on. In the mean time I thought you'd appreciate this. Country fever quickly approaches, which will require among other things, me to wear shorts so that I don't die of a heat stroke. So if I gotta be in shorts - then we all know that brown fat is easier to look at than white fat!

Now normally I end up sometime in may getting enough sun exposure to have at least the beginnings of tan covering my otherwise "whiter than sourcream" (new phrase I learned recent like) self. Not this year - between busy life and lots of rain it just hasn't worked out. So, when I had a few hours to kill yesterday morning in the bright sunshine of home I decided it was time for action. I armed myself with the baby oil (cause we all know you can't fry chicken w/out oil) and my new 70's rockin lounge chairs and I hit the yard! I must say I only meant to be out there 20-30 minutes - that would have probably been the perfect amount of time. But w/ a good book and the hot sun beating down on me - I guess I did not fully appreciate the passage of time. An hour and a half later - I thought i'd spent a good 30 minutes in the sun and had better get back in.

Anyway, I'm sporting a bit of a sunburn today, that despite my best efforts at turning myself in a rotisserie manner - is not the least bit uniform. So not only will I have a little tan at fever - I can now be the walking comic relief!!! (actually not THAT bad, and not blistered thankfully)

Okay, that's all for now

Toodles & Carry On.....

More kitty pics.

Thanks to all my inquiries. And thanks to my loyal followers (yes both of you LOL) for letting me turn the blog into an ad page for a few days LOL....

My first Craigs List Posting

I've resorted to asking strangers for help. Help for me in finding homes for 1000 Cats! Okay, not 1000 i'm an exaggerator by nature - but lots & lots of cats. I posted this ad on Craigslist & I am adding a photo slide show here as well.......

Help the Cats!!!!


I am knee deep in Cats and I’m not even a Cat Person. I am begging someone – anyone to PLEASE help. Help ME & Help the Cats!!!

Let me tell you my cat story….

I’m a dog person and my cat story starts with a dog. Not just any dog – but the world’s coolest dog. As my great dane /lab mix wonderful dog hit his older years we moved to a house with a few acres. Not long after our arrival came this cat. This one stray cat. This one stray cat took a liking to my dog. I never really considered the cat ours – but none the less I started putting out food for her. (as I would any animal) She became more and more attached to my dog. She showed up more and more and would track my dog until he just gave up and let her lay on top of him. We thought it was funny. She had a litter of kittens – we gave them away. A year or so later she had another – again, same deal. I’m not sure what happened but last year we didn’t get the litter given away and suddenly I was feeding 3 cats. Then two more cats showed up out of no where. 5 cats. Still – NOT MY CATS. But still I put out feed and by now they were living 80% of the time in my garage.

My angel of a dog passed away right before Christmas and I decided to keep putting the money I was spending on his monthly upkeep towards other animals maybe I’d adopt a shelter, but I soon realized I was spending that money on cat food. One of the kittens had now had a kitten – again gave the kitten away.

No real concern until I began to notice through this spring that every cat on the place looked preggos… each day they were a little fatter and a little hungrier!!! Until one day I had a barn had 3 kittens in it. Then a month or 2 later I found a drawer w/ 5 kittens in my garage and this past weekend my company found an old barrel in my tack room with ANOTHER 5 kittens and then yesterday I came home and found at least three newbies in a box in the garage and then today the old original momma cat has given birth again to God knows how many.

I know that if I’m going to take responsibility enough to feed 1 I should get it fixed but I just never even thought of it as anything other than feeding a stray. Now I’m buying cat food in 40lb bags and my garage is a giant litter box!!!!

HELP! I'll be glad to answer questions or give details or meet you with a box of cats!!!

Dear Concerned Followers:

All 2ish of you LOL...

It has been brought to my attn that I've not blogged in weeks. I would have sworn that it was more like 5-6 days - but that's just how my life is racing along I guess. Is something wrong you ask?

No, no, all is well I have just been crazy busy at work and then crazy busy at home. We have gotten new prison cases one of our big cases has really hit the document production phase and so all 8 hours that I am at work I have more to do than I can do - in fact this morning I'm sitting on my couch logged into the office server redacting DOC records that need to be produced tomorrow. NOTE THAT I AM NOT COMPLAINING! i like it when we are busy busy and would almost prefer that always be the case!

Additionally i've had company two weekends in a row that have kept me busy and I've been helping a dear friend in the evenings whose place flooded a couple of weeks ago.

I'm not only neglecting the blog - I had been neglecting the house (though i took off early friday and whipped it a little bit into shape for company sake) and thank goodness for my lawn boy or i'd be up to my eyeballs in weeds. I have some horse feet that need attention and some fencing and other outside chores that should outrank blogging on the priority list. But at least this weekend I did get horse back several times at 5am one morning so you know I was dedicated LOL - acutally Cade was dedicated but i'm tickled that we got to squeeze in some good rides.

Okay, back to my DOC records and i'll try to make a bigger post later with some photos of all the fun!