Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers and moms-to-be out there. I have no children yet, but here some pics of my two boys. The orange tabby is Rhett Butler and the other one is Raider. Both boys were adpoted. Rhett was adopted from the Lubbock pound…when Postman tried to pick him up, he reached out with his paw and scratched Postman on the nose. Right then and there I knew Rhett was a keeper and I could help the fact that he was named Rhett Butler. Gone With The Wind is one of my favorite movies. Rhett is definitely a momma’s boy. We got Raider about year later. Yes…he is named after the TTU mascot. We weren’t too thrilled about his real name “Theodore”. He has definitely lived up to his name Raider. Raider loves to play fetch with straws. That’s right folks straws. Throw one and he will go get and bring it back to you. They both give me joy and I don’t know what I would do without them in my life.

Also…happy Mother’s Day to the NASCAR moms…
Tony and Mom Stewart

Elliott and Mom Sadler

Looks like the Biff won! Every time I hear him called Biff it reminds me of Biff in the Back to the Future trilogy. I am glad…Biffle isn’t really a favorite of mine, but no Hendrick driver was in victory lane. Rats–my boys…Tony, Kevin, and Elliott had a rotten night.
Tony
Tony qualified 12th and well..finished 12th. No worse…no better. Tony’s car wasn’t all that great last night. He was in the time top for awhile, but began to slip back. The lowest he ran was Tony wasn’t having a good night either. He finished 12th. The only good thing about 12th…I only gained 5 points in my contest on SmokeVip.com. You have to guess where Tony is going to place and the race winner. I picked Tony to finish 7th and Greg Biffle to win. Whereever Tony finishes you get that many points. For example I picked him to finish 7th and he finished 12th–thus 5 points added to my score. The lower score the better. After last week, I have a total of 5 points. I guess the right spot last week…he finished 5th.
Elliott
Elliott qualified 8th, but his car kept him from running well. At one time I heard he didn’t have any front or back grip. That’s not good at Darlington. He finished 29th.
Kevin
Kevin got bit by the track itself…did you see that piece of racetrack that ended up punching a hole in Kevin’s radiator. Yikes. He finished 37th.

Other news from Darlington…looks like DJ is officially going to Toyota to be on Michael Waltrip’s Toyota team next year. I wonder who will take DJ’s #88? It will be interesting to see.

That’s right folks…Kinky Friedman has collected 169,574 signatures to get his name of the ballot for the Texas governor race! He only needed 45,500 signatures…that almost 4 times as many signatures he needed.

And…I can say mine and Postman’s signatures are part of those 169,574 signatures.

I haven’t been too thrilled with Governor Good Hair. I am quite fed up with his handling of the school finance issue. And I wasn’t excited about the Democrat candidate Chris Bell or Carol Keeton Strayhorn. Strayhorn like Kinky had to collect signatures to get her name on the ballot. She is running as an Independent instead of a Republican. My thoughts on this is she probably couldn’t beat Governor Good Hair in the Republican primary.

I think Texas is ready for an independent..no holds barred kind of governor. If Minnesota can elect Jesse “The Body” Ventura, why can’t Texas elect a Jewish Cowboy?

Kinky…Why The Hell Not?

This one is for a fellow Elliott fan in Texas…this one’s for you Phyllis. My husband and I met Phyllis this past April at Texas Motor Speedway. She is a wonderful person and a huge Elliott Sadler fan. I am looking forward to seeing her in for the November race at TMS. Have a great weekend Phyllis! (**I found this pic of Elliott on Off the Pace –another fellow Elliott fan..great site.)

Congrats to Kasey!

Kasey wins the pole for the Dodge Charger 500 on Saturday night…and we all know what happens when he wins the pole…he wins. He has 3 wins in Cup and they are all from the pole.
I am hoping this isn’t the case. I would really like to see Smoke win so we can all see him climb the fence. Of course I would be happy with Kevin or Elliott winning either. Anybody but a Hendrick driver for me!

Top Ten
1. Kasey Kahne
2. Ryan Newman
3. Clint Bowyer (R)
4. David Stremme (R)
5. Denny Hamlin (R)
6. Elliott Sadler
7. Carl Edwards
8. Brian Vickers
9. Greg Biffle
10. Kurt Busch
Other Notables
12. Tony Stewart
13. Kevin Harvick
17. Mark Martin
22. Dale Earnhardt Jr.

This makes 3 Dodges in the Top Ten as well as 3 rookies.

Congrats to Denny Hamlin for winning the pole for tonight’s Busch race.

Other notables
8. Mark Martin
9. Tony Stewart
17. Kevin Harvick
22. Burney Lamar (R)

Good Luck Boys!

Sexy Driver Contest
I don’t know why Fox has this contest. Because several of the drivers that should have been voted on through in the contest weren’t. For example…Dale Jr. was ousted by Mikey W. and Tony was ousted by Jimmie “Bushy Brows” Johnson.
I am devastated to see that Elliott was ousted by Jeff. I know there was a huge “Vote for Elliott” campaign out there, but we did out best and it looks like Jeff won. That’s crap! We all know who the real winner is anyway! I think I will drown my sorrys in my stash of MMs..boo hoo!

Next up for voting..Big Shrub vs DJ…and DJ is way ahead of Big Shrub.

Dale Jarrett to Toyota???
Rumors have been going around that DJ will move over to Michael Waltrip’s Toyota team.
According to NASCAR.com, Michael is scheduled to make a live announcement Saturday at 12:30 p.m. on SPEED regarding the future of his organization.According to a source close to the situation, Waltrip plans to announce a deal with a current Cup driver.

I guess we will all have to wait and see…let the Silly Season begin.