Happy Herman's Hideaway

(This article was originally supposed to be submitted last week. I know we had sun this week!)

Hello dearest San Saba souls, and how have you been this past week? I tell ya, I have been seriously thinking about making a movie titled "The Day Flies Ate Texas!" If I thought I was in a battle with Rowena and her gang, well, it was just a game because what I am waging against flies is full on warfare!

I run around the house so much snapping at them, I am surprised I haven’t chipped a tooth or ten! I tell you between the flies and mosquitos, I feel as if I am staring in some sort of low budget B movie directed by someone with a sick sense of humor who represents a heart worm manufacturer!

May I just say I am tired of rain and all it entails, such as lightning and thunder? Sometimes the lightning hits so close to the house, I feel as though it is trying to be our new lighting system; as if Mother Nature fancies herself our interior decorator and lighting expert.

I screamed out a couple times and told mom…BLINDED BY THE LIGHT!” Then a few moments later I would scream and say…”DEAFENED BY THE NOISE!” Mom would cover me by the blanket and pat me to try and calm me down but it would only last until the next flash and bang.

I tell you guys, I am about at the point of putting an ad in the paper to see if anyone has new body parts to help mom out. I will take mechanical ones, that would be fine and they can even be rusty because they would still work better than mom’s. I tell you what, if mom was bread she would be moldy and even starving birds would look and fly away still hungry!

Now do not get me wrong, I love the woman to pieces but actually I have to because, well, she is falling to pieces! I would buy a bunch of super glue but I am afraid the smell of it would cause her to go into anaphylactic shock and send her into seizures or something; that is how weird she is. The other day I asked dad if maybe we should take her back home to outer space and find one of her own kind to help her.

Want to know something though? Through everything, mom is still a laughing hyena. Mom had a new home health nurse named Tina come by on Friday and oh my very goodness, they had such a great time together! Mom had her laughing and Tina asked if she could hug mom right away.

You see, even though mom is in the worst health she has ever experienced in her life and that is saying a lot, she refuses to let it dampen her spirits, hurt her heart, make her stop seeing the magic in life, or sharing her joy with everyone she meets. Mom tells me she learns so much from me but sometimes life works both ways.

I love you my San Saba sweethearts. Mom and I think you are so wonderful and precious! I adore talking and sharing my world with you each week and I hope you enjoy my doing so, too. I believe that is one of the greatest gifts we can give each other in life.

Humans seem to always be searching for the next best thing, when merely sitting with someone and laughing, sharing the joy of a moment can be the best, most exciting and soul and mind expanding experience in life.

Our Shawn and Minna took a vacation to the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee this past week and he came home saying it was right up there with his vacations to Costa Rica and Alaska; it was that beautiful. You see, perspective is the key to all things. When your heart is opened, so many wonderful things of life rush into to it. I sure know that is why my tail wags so often!

You are so very special and thank you for being.