Why Donkeys Love Karla Vargas

Ron Lyons (00:00):
Yes. So you love being the age you are right now. I love it. It's a good time in your life to be this, this age.

Karla Vargas (00:06):
My daughter doesn't agree with that cuz she's 21 and sometimes they'd say, oh, is that your sister?

Ron Lyons (00:13):
Welcome to CelinaRadio.com recorded right here in Celina, Texas, a quiet little dusty sleepy town that

has absolutely nothing going on

Ron Lyons (00:33):

Guys. This is Celina, Texas, and we've got everything going on here. But right now this music straight from Spain is just absolutely blowing my mind. This stuff is so great. And you're gonna understand why I have music from Spain on the show today. When you hear more about today's guest and her story, what she does, how she got to where she's at and where she's headed, but who is it? It's Karla Vargas. She runs the donkey and horse rescue right there on Preston road by Brookshires. You've seen her donkeys out there plenty of times. But what you may not know is that every single one of them has had their life saved by Karla and something else you probably don't know is that Karla is a classically trained executive chef. But if you think that's all there is to Karla Vargas, then you're in for a real surprise. And don't forget about July the eighth. When our video drops, what video you might ask. Well, only the video of the chief of police. John, Cullison having an indoor fishing challenge with Celina mayor, Sean Terry and they participated in this little event that we created for them to help raise awareness for Karla's rescue. And after you listen to today's show, you're gonna understand, and we're gonna tell you how you can help as well. But guys, for right now, let's sit back and listen to my interview with Karla Vargas.

Ron Lyons (02:18):
Guys. I am here with Karla Vargas and you may not know that name just yet, but you will. And the

reason you will believe it or not is probably because of a donkey. So, Karla, how are you doing today?

Karla Vargas (02:35):
I'm doing great. Thank you so much for having me here with you.

Ron Lyons (02:38):

Absolutely. It's my pleasure. And we wanted to talk because you actually are known for having the donkey rescue that's in Celina near nearly. Everybody has to have seen it by now. And it's located right there by Brookshires and people drive by, they see these donkeys and then now I think you've got a banner up or a sign. So people are, they're starting to pay attention. So what's the name of the place over there? Like what do you, what do you call that donkey? I'm gonna, I'm gonna call it a donkey hangout. It's really a rescue. What, what do you call that?

Karla Vargas (03:12):
I call that my Haven. So Haven.

Ron Lyons (03:14):

Yes. Is there, is there an official business name of that? Is there a website? Is there anything like that where people could go and find out about that?

Karla Vargas (03:22):
Absolutely. It's called donkey and horse rescue.org.

Ron Lyons (03:26):

Okay. That sounds awesome. And I wanna know all about that and we're gonna give a little bit into who you are and stuff like that as well. But, but right now let's, let's talk about those donkeys. I mean, what an amazing thing. I actually have to myself, handful of horses, all that fun stuff, and I love them. They are so much fun. Now my donkeys are minis. Okay. So I don't know if that officially counts as a real donkey or not, but tell us, tell us about that out there. What's what's going on out there.

Karla Vargas (03:57):
We have a total of 28 donkeys right now. So we have all kinds and miniatures. We have standard sizes.

We have regular sizes have a couple mules mules they're called we named them Ricky and Lucy.

Ron Lyons (04:15): Nice, nice.

Karla Vargas (04:17):

So their husband and wife. Right. And, but they are standard mules. So they're a little different than the donkeys. They're part of the equine world anyways. And I have a couple of horses on the Haven up there too, that they are for adoption. Every single one of those babies are ready to be adopted and go to their forever home.

Ron Lyons (04:39):

So you, I'm assuming that you either bring these, as you say, these babies, these, these donkeys and, and these equine animals, because it sounds like you, you do more than just donkeys. I mean you, would you take a horse for example, could you do that there or not? Yes. So you, you don't probably just find those walking around the streets of Celina, but how do you get them? Like how do they find their way to the Haven?

Karla Vargas (05:10):

They I have to go find them. I have to go to the skilled pens and I say, I have to, but I don't have to. My heart is, is out there for them. There's a lot of animals that need homes and people are not aware of this slaughter homes or this holding pens. I go to Bowie holding kill pen. I go to Elkhart, BA, Texas. There's another kill pen behind Texas Motor Speedway. I mainly work with those four places and you go there and you pay a bail to get the horses or the mules or the donkeys out of that place. Because they're fixing the head out to Canada or Mexico and they are already tagged for meat or glue.

Ron Lyons (06:03): Wow.

Karla Vargas (06:04):

And so I created this organization 12 years ago. And I just dedicated my soul for those babies out there. My heart goes out there for them and I'm, I'm a small rescue here in Celina, across the street from

Ron Lyons (06:21):
Brook shows. Well, you may be a small rescue, but what you're doing is amazing and you're in a great

location right there. So how many, how many animals do you think you have out there right now?

Karla Vargas (06:34):
Right now they are about 25.

Ron Lyons (06:38):

Wow. 25. And you've gotta take care of those. You've gotta feed 'em. I'm assuming there's vet bills. There's yes. All kinds of things. I know, just with my handful that I have on my property, they, they take a fair amount of, you know, effort to keep everything good. Keep 'em alive, keep 'em happy. So how do you function? How do you finance these little animals and keeping them alive?

Karla Vargas (07:02):

I know, right. My husband and I will have deep conversations about that. <Laugh> it takes a lot of money. You have to find the people that are willing to help you with donations as well. I have a website that has a link to a PayPal account. I've been using Williamson Stevens, which is a hospital in Argo and Paul point for the last seven years. I love them. They, they actually have five of my donkeys out there right now waiting to be castrated. Oh,

Ron Lyons (07:37): Wow.

Karla Vargas (07:39):

There's a lot of boys that need to be castrated and those are unfortunately the ones that they are, you know, filling up those kill pens, cuz nobody wants to deal with those. So they require more money. So I'm yes. I, I do need help from the, you know, any other person that is willing to help me

Ron Lyons (07:56):

Yeah. From the community. So yes, I have a feeling that there's gonna be a lot of people out there who would love to help you and help save lives and that sort of thing. And so they can do that through your website. Is that correct? They can actually, you said there's a PayPal link or whatever. Mm-Hmm <affirmative>. And is there any other contact information? Is there an email, a phone number? Is there anything else like that, that you want to share that people could reach out to you and maybe offer some sort of financial support or anything like that?

Karla Vargas (08:28):

Yes, there's actually, I have a Q code at a banner there. There's several banners at the location in Celina with my Haven is, and if you scan that cure code, it leads you to my website. It has a phone number that I, it it's directly to my cell phone. Okay. So I'm answering constantly, you know, phone calls from people. And there's a lot of people that have called me the last couple months ever since Celina lifestyle

magazine did that ad. And I am very thankful for, for the support of that and so happy and so blessed to continue to do this, to be honest. And thank you for having me here too.

Ron Lyons (09:09):

Oh yeah, no, it is absolutely my pleasure. When I found out a little bit about what was going on over there, I knew I had to find you whoever you were, and I didn't know at the time and reach out and see if we could talk about what was going on. And as it turns out, it's actually a fantastic and amazing story. So you'll drive. How far do you what's what's the furthest kill pin that you go to right now to do a rescue?

Karla Vargas (09:36):
Well, it's about four hour drive.

Ron Lyons (09:39):

Okay. So you'll take off four hours and then I, I'm assuming you have some sort of a process. You, you make your selections, you pay the yes. The fee to, to save these lives. You load 'em up in a trailer. Yes. And then you bring 'em back to Celina, Texas. And tell me what happens from there. Is there a veterinarian involved or what's the process?

Karla Vargas (09:59):

Yes. So I take a decision if on my way back from the slaughter pen, I just go straight to Williamson Stevens or another vet clinic in just at clinic and just drop the babies and just say, okay, this horse comes with me or this donkey comes directly, you know, just take 'em to the hospital. They need immediate attention. And so, but if, if not, then they'll come to Celina with me. And then we start a quarantine process right there where we decided where, which direction we're going with them, whether they need a farrier, they need extra attention or, you know, just turn 'em out there and the quarantine pin and just let 'em be donkeys and acclimate themselves

Ron Lyons (10:46):

And let them sit out there and watch all the people drive by Preston road. And I've seen so many people pull over and like do pictures. Mm-Hmm <affirmative> and you know, they'll, they'll bring apples and stuff like that out there. They'll do all kinds of stuff. So it's what a, what a great location. Yes. To have all this, if you're gonna do it, you could be stuck off in, you know, some corner of Celina that nobody knows about, but you're right on Preston road and everybody goes to Brookshire's. Right. So everybody knows you're there.

Karla Vargas (11:14):
Yes. They, I will lo I love that actually they can go grocery store and they can also go donkey shopping.

That's

Ron Lyons (11:20):

Right. It's all right there together. That's amazing what a blessing that is. Yes. And I, I have to ask, we're gonna talk a little bit about you of course, but how, how far back in your memory do you have of like your first experience with a donkey or something like that? That just kind of sticks out in your mind because I'm, I'm certain, there's some, there's something there that makes you love them so much.

Karla Vargas (11:45):
Yes. well, when I was the age of four, I got my first horse with my father and at the age of nine they put

me on a donkey.

Ron Lyons (11:58):
Wow. So, so you started at that point and did you know back then you were like, okay, I love these guys.

They're awesome.

Karla Vargas (12:04):

They are absolutely. I mean, they touch my soul. I love them. Donkey's more than anything. They are the abandoned, just forgotten animal, you know, and they carry the cross in their back. Wow. And so they, the youngest baby donkey is the one that carried Jesus to the crucifix. So I absolutely love that from the donkeys. And again, I love, you know, my horses and meals, but any kind of challenge I get, I'll take them that the donkeys have a particular spot in my heart.

Ron Lyons (12:41):

Yep. And I can tell that, and I knew that after talking to you for just a few minutes, I was like, okay. Yeah, she loves these animals. So you're just taken by them and it's, and it's what your mission in life is, is to take care of them. But that's not the only thing you do. You are also involved in your life with some very reg and Royal horses. Okay. And we're talking about and illusions, correct? Correct. Okay. And you just had me meet somebody while ago out there. And that was, that was a, a very, very awesome thing for me. I'm so glad you asked me to come over here. Tell me, tell me who it is that I just met out there.

Karla Vargas (13:18):

You met Catalina, our friend from Spain, that he is he's from hu Spain. And he is a professional horsemanship from dressage, which in Spain, they call DOMA Classica. So that's just something that it's fascinating for me. I'm come coming from the Western, you know, world cutting and roping and barrels and dressage is totally a different world. And so he's, we're very blessed to have him here. My friend cat hired him to, to train her an Angelian horses. And it's just a fabulous work. What he does

Ron Lyons (14:02):

It is, it's amazing to watch him in just the regalness of the horse. And then you understand the connection between the trainer and the horse, and then you get it. Yes. It's very formal and it's very beautiful. Mm-Hmm <affirmative> so, so to me, I see you out here with an delusions and in this world, and I've watched you some today doing all of this stuff with these very Regal Royal horses, I keep saying. And then you save donkeys.

Karla Vargas (14:32): Yes. <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (14:34):

I be, it's awesome. I mean, what a great thing do you feel like sometimes you see this other world and you know, these little donkeys, these little guys are never really gonna have that opportunity to be in the arena to be in the show, to be in the, you know, in the, in the spotlight, so to speak. So your heart kind of goes out to 'em a little more, because absolutely like you said, they're kind of forgotten.

Karla Vargas (14:56):

Absolutely. I think that they deserve the same chance and that's what drives me to go to those kill pens and take four, five hours of my time, or even missing a show or a day of work just to just go out there for them because they need to be out of there.

Ron Lyons (15:16):

I hope that you are enjoying this episode of Celina radio.com with Karla Vargas. As you can tell, she is doing some amazing work, but she needs our help. Celinaradio.Com has partnered with some of the city leaders in an effort to raise awareness about her mission over there to save these little donkeys. So if you will go to Celina radio.com/donkey and see how you can get involved, how you can help and have a little fun along the way. So the line of radio.com, thanks you, and I know Karla Vargas and every one of those little babies out there is very, very grateful for all of your help, your love and support. Give me an idea. So if a person was going to help you, obviously financial help is always good because there's so many expenses is there, is that the primary way? Are there other ways that people can, can help? Like would, would it be possible, for example, for someone to say, go buy some hay or some feed or a, you know, a mineral block or something like that? It, it just, what, what ways can people help?

Karla Vargas (16:39):

Yes. Absolutely all the above actually. I have found wonderful people in the community of Celina where ever since again, ad it's, you know, it's brought me with a lot of people that wants to help. And I have had a lady Kim that she donates, you know, Hey, calling to tractor supply and say, Hey, have Karla go pick it up. You know, DNL people knows me as well. And so the donkey Haven, I want 10 bells for the donkey Haven. Okay. Then they call me and Karla, here, there you go. Your lucky day, <laugh> very,

Ron Lyons (17:15): Very, very cool. Or

Karla Vargas (17:17):

Just, you know, come with me. One of those days to this slaughterhouse, I invite you to take a day off and you write with me, I'll be the driver. I have the trailer and let's just go out there. You pay the bail. If you want to donate some money or you just donate it straight to wings, Stevens. I have that bill

Ron Lyons (17:35):
There too. You know, you've kind of got a running balance that, yeah,

Karla Vargas (17:39):
Yeah. It's constant for the last 12 years, by the way is endless

Ron Lyons (17:43):
<Laugh> I can only imagine. And, and so that brings up a good question. How long have you been doing

this?

Karla Vargas (17:49):

12 years. And as long as my heart keeps telling me to do it and my passion I'm physically capable and mentally capable to do it, I will not

Ron Lyons (17:57):

Stop. Yeah. I don't really see you stopping anytime soon. I think this is kind of your, see, this is your, this is part of your calling, but ironically, this wasn't your original calling, so to speak, you are actually a formally trained culinary, a chef. What's what's the correct term. What's how, what is

Karla Vargas (18:19):
That? I am executive chef graduated in Mexico city.

Ron Lyons (18:22):

So you technically have a lot of knowledge about cooking and food and all that sort of thing. So you, you, I see these and allusions to the donkeys. And then I see an executive chef to someone who's out here doing rescue work and working with these horses and stuff. And it's, it's amazing. So would you call that balance or imbalance? To me it sounds like balance

Karla Vargas (18:46):
Sounds pretty good. You just have a good glass of Bino and good cooking <laugh> after you ride these

horses or you go rescue some doggies. What, I'm just very blessed

Ron Lyons (18:59):
To be honest. Absolutely. Yes, no, I agree with that. So how long ago did you go through all of your

culinary training?

Karla Vargas (19:07):
22 years ago, I graduated so

Ron Lyons (19:09):
22 years ago. And, and do you miss that work at all or is it just not really? Nah, not so much anymore.

Karla Vargas (19:17):

I do. I actually do. I mean, I love restaurants and if, if I had a chance, I will, I will put a good restaurant around here, but it's just time consuming. So I, I don't wanna give up on my babies and donkey and it's, it's one of the other

Ron Lyons (19:33):

<Laugh> right. No, I understand. It's, it's usually the one thing tends to take all of our time and all of our resources and our money and stuff like that. And I certainly understand that. So we're gonna talk a little bit, since you talked about, you had put a restaurant in somewhere around here, we're gonna talk just a little bit about that and we're gonna learn a little bit more about you personally. Are you okay with that with

Karla Vargas (19:59): That'm

Ron Lyons (19:59):

Perfectly fine. We're we we've gone down this road. We're talking about kill pins and rescuing donkeys. And, and so in the spirit of balance, we wanna learn a little bit more about you. So tell us how many, first of all, cuz I already know the answer to this. How many different languages do you speak?

Karla Vargas (20:18): Two,

Ron Lyons (20:19):
You speak two and you speak them both very well. So thank you. What's your, what's your primary

language?

Karla Vargas (20:24): Spanish.

Ron Lyons (20:25):
Okay. And you've heard me trying to speak a little Spanish today. <Laugh> give me, give me a grade. So

far a being really good and a F being really bad. How's my Spanish so far.

Karla Vargas (20:37):
You're actually a B I'll give you a B,

Ron Lyons (20:40):
I'll take that for a guy who hasn't used his Spanish in a long time. I'll take that. You've

Karla Vargas (20:44): Got great accents. So

Ron Lyons (20:46):
Yeah, I like that. I've got questions right here on these pieces of paper and you've not heard anything

about these. You don't know anything about what's on these pages, is that correct?

Karla Vargas (20:56): Yes, that is

Ron Lyons (20:57):

Correct. And you've got a little apprehensive look on your face right now. You're yep. Okay. So I'm, I'm not even gonna let go in any particular order. I'm just gonna literally jump into these and see how you do. Okay. So there's no right or wrong answer because this is all about you.

Karla Vargas (21:13): Okay. Awesome.

Ron Lyons (21:15):
All right. So let's see. What's the weirdest crush you've ever had on somebody uhoh

Karla Vargas (21:21):
Oh, I think it was a neighbor.

Ron Lyons (21:23): Oh yeah. Black

Karla Vargas (21:24):
Can mix. You were oh yeah. Back in Mexico city.

Ron Lyons (21:26):

<Laugh> Uhhuh <affirmative> okay. All right. And, and I'm sure there's a little bit of a story there mm- hmm <affirmative> but we're gonna probably have a follow up interview. So I'm gonna ask you about that whenever

Karla Vargas (21:38): <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (21:39):
I'm gonna ask you actually, when we're not recording what you, that

Karla Vargas (21:42): That's a good idea.

Ron Lyons (21:43):

That's probably a good idea. Yeah. So if I told you right now that I lost my phone, this is actually a question. If I said I lost my phone and I need to borrow yours for the next hour, would you be comfortable letting me borrow your phone for an hour? Absolutely.

Karla Vargas (21:57):
Yeah. I'll give you the password right now. <Laugh>

Ron Lyons (22:00):
I'll get that awesome.

Karla Vargas (22:01):
They can choose. What donkey do you want? Cuz it's real Don fix.

Ron Lyons (22:05):

That is awesome. Give me, give me an idea of what is one of the most useless things that they teach in college right now? Like what's a useless major direction or class or something that they teach. What's something you think is just like, why do they even teach that?

Karla Vargas (22:21):

Okay. To me when I was in culinary school, why do I need biology and chemistry for <laugh> like, I'm not gonna do that in the kitchen. Yeah.

Ron Lyons (22:31):
So it just didn't make any sense, right? No.

Karla Vargas (22:33): Yeah.

Ron Lyons (22:33):
Yeah. I didn't. I would agree with you. I, my question is why do we need math?

Karla Vargas (22:38):
Well, math, you needed for to know if you're gonna make or lose money.

Ron Lyons (22:43):

You're supposed to agree with me that we do not need math because I am not good at it. So not to get back serious and everything, but you could probably shed a lot of tears just over the stuff that you're working with, the rescue and stuff.

Karla Vargas (22:57):
I, yeah, actually I did that yesterday too. Delivering a donkey and this donkey kept coming back

Ron Lyons (23:05): Out

Karla Vargas (23:05): The

Ron Lyons (23:05):
Gate. Oh my gosh. Was it just terrible? I mean, it was heartbreaking.

Karla Vargas (23:10):
It was, but it was just so it just, it just makes my heart happy cuz it is a wonderful family that rescued

him at Santo, Texas.

Ron Lyons (23:20):

So, oh, so he did actually get rescued? Yes. Okay. Yeah. All right. Now I can actually feel a little bit better cuz I'm sitting here literally my heart breaking. I'm thinking, oh my gosh. If the one, if he kept coming back to the gate, I would just be

Karla Vargas (23:34):
When he was drop off to his forever home. So he is like, mommy, can I have another hug?

Ron Lyons (23:39):
Oh man. That's so awesome. Okay. That is fantastic. If, if you could level up in life, like they do on video

games

Karla Vargas (23:50): <Laugh> oh my gosh.

Ron Lyons (23:52):
<Laugh> yeah. I don't know how many video games you play, but you, you actually start out

Karla Vargas (23:58): Mario bro.

Ron Lyons (23:59): There you go. Right.

Karla Vargas (24:01): Can I go to level

Ron Lyons (24:02):
Six? Yeah, you might could. So what's what's your next level in life? What's the next level for you?

Karla Vargas (24:08):
Move it to my barn. Yeah. Get get with this royalty horses that you said they stole your heart a little bit

while ago, right? Yeah. I would love to continue with that for the rest of my life.

Ron Lyons (24:22):

So you are kind of starting your own business now totally aside and separate from the rescue. The rescue is like a persistent, it's gonna be their kind of thing. Yes. What is this new adventure that you're trying to go on? What are you trying to do?

Karla Vargas (24:37):

We're trying to get settled with all our anal ocean horses and the studs and just educate the community about them. I mean there's a lot of cutting horses and Arab horses around here. Not so much of the anal ocean since this babies were important from Spain Maga. They're just absolutely beautiful souls and just get, get people, you know, get to know them. Right. And especially with Catalina, we're very blessed to have him here. Absolutely.

Ron Lyons (25:13):

Super, super nice guy. And I feel like when I'm talking to him, I feel like I'm talking to some sort of a, like a really special person. Like he's just like, like almost as almost Royal as the horses. Does that make sense?

Karla Vargas (25:28):

Yes. That's, that's kind of like how I feel

Ron Lyons (25:31):

Very dignified, very just I don't know the, the kind of stuff you see in movies and TV. So I am very, very interested in what he's doing here and I know he's, he's also working to establish himself in this country. And so we definitely want to be a part of helping him do that. It's just been, we, we want to help you. We want to help him. We want Celinas an amazing community. And, and when this community wraps around you, thank you. There is virtually nothing that you can't accomplish. So I think you guys in the right place at the right time, but back to my less serious questions here, do you go ever to eat anywhere in Celina? Like did you ever go over to the Celina square and eat or anything like that?

Karla Vargas (26:16):
Oh my gosh. Yes. All the time.

Ron Lyons (26:18): Give me an idea of

Karla Vargas (26:20):
Joey knows me all the time. It's supposed to walk out. He's like, again, <laugh>

Ron Lyons (26:24):
You're like, they're like you're back and you're like, gosh, sure am. Yeah. It's awesome. So what do you

get when you go to toasted Walnut?

Karla Vargas (26:31):
I love their brisket tacos. Oh

Ron Lyons (26:34):
Really? Wow. Very, very interesting. Mm-Hmm

Karla Vargas (26:37):
<Affirmative> tender Frito pie is my favorite.

Ron Lyons (26:40):
Really? <laugh> yeah. Did you know? I didn't even know they had that.

Karla Vargas (26:44): Oh gosh.

Ron Lyons (26:44):

Like I literally just discovered that right now. I had no idea. All right. On a scale of one to 10, one being terrible, 10 being great. How would you rate your, I know this is gonna sound weird. Your age that you are now, like are like, like I love being it. So I'm like, it's like level 10 being my age where it's like, it's terrible. It's a level one being my age. What rate? The age you're

Karla Vargas (27:10):
At right now. Oh, I am in 10 or 15. Really?

Ron Lyons (27:14):
Oh yeah. So you love being the age you are right now. I love it. It's a good time in your life to be this, this

Karla Vargas (27:20):
Age. My daughter doesn't agree with that cuz she's 21 and sometimes they think, oh, is that your sister?

No.

Ron Lyons (27:27): Oh man. Sorry,

Karla Vargas (27:28): Maria.

Ron Lyons (27:28):
It is awesome. Yeah. I love that. Do you believe that it's a God thing that you are where you are right

now? Absolutely.

Karla Vargas (27:37):
He put me right here and it' the best, the best moment of my life.

Ron Lyons (27:40):

That is fantastic. What a great, what a great thing. And you told me before, and maybe I'm not supposed to talk about this, but I'm gonna mention it anyways. And you and we, and I can, I can edit it out if you need to, but it's you were actually a cheerleader at some point, is that correct?

Karla Vargas (27:58): Yes <laugh>.

Ron Lyons (27:59):
Yes. Tell, tell us about that cheerleader

Karla Vargas (28:02):
National cheerleader for four years. And I was a captain of the team leaving high school and I got

recruited a team in Dallas.

Ron Lyons (28:13):
Wow. That is awesome. Yeah. And I won't push too hard on that, but you have been a cheerleader. Yes.

And so what was that like? Was that awesome or was that, Karla Vargas (28:22):

That was awesome. That was again, but I wouldn't change those moments to this moments right now, you know, 18 comparing to 44. I am the best of my life.

Ron Lyons (28:33):
Very good. It's always good to enjoy where you're at right now. So do you have from your entire life, do

you have a movie that you really like?

Karla Vargas (28:42): Yes. Harry Potter.

Ron Lyons (28:44): Wow.

Karla Vargas (28:45):
I'm a good fan of Harry Potter.

Ron Lyons (28:46):
So Harry Potter and Frito pie <laugh>

Karla Vargas (28:49): Yes. And, and good VNO

Ron Lyons (28:53):
Right. Absolutely. I mean, you've gotta have that. Right. You

Karla Vargas (28:56):
Gotta have that with the Frito pie too.

Ron Lyons (28:58):
So this former cheerleader who is very involved with these very Regal horses, saves donkeys, eats Frito

pie and watches Harry Potter. So do you ever look at your life and think, wow, but that's amazing.

Karla Vargas (29:12): That is amazing.

Ron Lyons (29:13):
It's not boring. Nope. It's not, it's not dull. It's not bad. It's it's fun, right?

Karla Vargas (29:19): It is amazing. Yes.

Ron Lyons (29:20): Yes, absolutely.

Karla Vargas (29:21): So very blessed.

Ron Lyons (29:23):

And, and I agree with that. I think that everything you're doing here, I mean, it truly is. It's like, well, I'm gonna say it's God's work because that's what I think it is. Anytime you can save an animal, my wife has done rescue for years and I see all of these cases and I see just the heartbreak and the tears and the crying and the agony and all of that stuff that goes into that. Yes. That a lot of people never see. Absolutely. They, they never, they never realize what it takes behind the scenes. Yes. To be that person. And, and, but thankfully in Celina, Texas, guess what? We've got you Karla Vargas. And I, I just appreciate everything you're doing. I know everybody else is. I would encourage everybody to go to your website, to come visit with you, to, to be a part of everything you've got going on. And I'm gonna ask you this, would you be willing down the road? You, you, you are gonna get your, your new business is gonna get going. You're gonna get kind of settled in. You've got some things going on with, in, in the whole horse world right now, once everything gets settled down, would you come back and do a follow up episode with us? Oh,

Karla Vargas (30:32):
I would love to. Thank you so

Ron Lyons (30:34):

Much. Fantastic. We're gonna, we're gonna take, I, I did some great video today. Okay. Of the, the, the royalty from Spain. That's what I'm gonna call him because he's awesome. And, and we're gonna put that up. We're also going to go out to the Haven and we're gonna do some video out there. So all of that will be put together and post it up and hopefully we will get you some focus and some attention and, and really kinda, yeah. You, you know what, and let me just tell y'all something right now. Let me tell you how real this, this girl is right now. We're literally sitting in a trailer on a horse property. We're doing this podcast. There's a thousand things going on, but she, she literally unplugs everything just long enough to do this. We're sitting in here. There's a giant wasp flying around us that obviously came in while ago. I pointed out while we're talking so that she can see it. She looks at, looks back at me, shrugs on your shoulders. Like no big deal. That, that is just one more facet of somebody that I'm just gonna say the amazing Karla Vargus.

Karla Vargas (31:46):
Oh, you're so thank you so much. Thank

Ron Lyons (31:48):
You. Thank you so much for being on the show and I look forward to having you on me too.

Karla Vargas (31:53):
Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate you

Ron Lyons (31:58):

Guys. That is Karla Vargas and obviously she's pretty awesome. So check out her website, check out the thing that we're doing in conjunction with the chief of police and the mayor of the city of Celina. And

we're trying to get a little help for Karla for the donkeys and just be an awesome community. So it's Celina radio.com/donkey. The video of the challenge between the chief and the mayor drops on July the eighth. You're gonna want to see that cuz it was an awesome time and there's a little surprise in there. That's just gonna kind of make everything even more fun. But anyways guys, that's gonna wrap it up for today. You are awesome. Celina, Texas is awesome. And this is Celina radio.com. Share it with your friends, post it on your social media and check out the rest of our episodes. We've got some fantastic stuff coming up and you're gonna love it. So guys as always, God bless, and we'll see you on the next show.