Well, part of the back story is that Madame has FINALLY been in touch with us. For awhile there we--Willard, Auntie, and I--were watching the news with our fingers crossed, hoping against hope she wouldn't turn up in connection with any more episodes like the one in St. Louis, when she and that ridgerunnin' brother of hers crashed the gate at Anheuser-Busch.

First, she called Auntie. I happened to be there when she got in touch, interviewing Auntie for the Blogger Inquirer. (Check out http://librarycat.blogstream.com. Is that Auntie not the CUTEST thing in a bonnet?) They were--her and her brother, whose name, it seems, is Roscoe--just outside Omaha, out of diesel fuel (but not Bud Light) and needed money to fill up the truck and go on.

I hadn't checked my email in awhile. This evening, I found this, from early this AM:
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Willard here.
I forgot to tell you, I was watching Good Morning America the other morning when they were showing the third of their seven wonders of America series. Chris Cuomo was at the Grand Canyon showing that clear overlook they built.
OMG that looked like Sadie in the background with a sign saying "Hi Auntie". There was an older roly-poly man with a beard. I did a double-take. The beard was braided. So unless there are two people running around looking like Madame and her ridge-running brother they made it to Colorado. What do these two think they are?? Thelma and Louise????
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The longer I thought about it, the more I thought that A) it probably WAS Madame and Roscoe, but B) nope, I don't think Thelma and Louise will quite work, cause best I remember, neither one of them had a braided beard--and since Sadie's a woman, they can't be doing Butch and Sundance, either. Nor can they be doing Bonnie and Clyde; unless you count beer bottles as a weapon, Madame and Roscoe aren't armed.

That was before I got a phone call from Auntie, though. She was at her boyfriend's and couldn't talk long, but she said that she had been watching GMA the morning they broadcast from the Little Bighorn Battlefield and could have SWORN she saw an old lady with a flower in her hat, standing behind Chris Cuomo, holding a sign that said "HI, AUNTIE" in one hand and a Bud Light in the other.

Well, we don't know where that pair of hillbilly terrorists (remember that poor truck driver back in Maryland? He's STILL in therapy) will turn up next, but we do know this: they didn't drive the diesel off a cliff--

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Meanwhile, may I welcome a new member to Blogstream? He's a friend of mine from other boards, other times, other places, who came over to check out FW and Auntie and decided to join us. His blog is at http://gnostix1.blogstream.com/--and he answers to the name g1. (That's a one, not a lowercase L.) He seems to have encountered some characters who can give Madame a run for her money at the art of the con. Check his blog out--I think he's a great addition!

Until next time, fair thee well!