Monday Morning Musings - Howdy Folks!

WOO HOO!!! I'm so excited y'all! I get to go to the Great State Fair of Texas today! With Oprah. I'm so sick and tired of hearing everyone talk on their blogs and of Facebook about going to the fair, and I have to miss out. I have heard tales from friends of fried butter, fried coke, and fried pecan pie. You know, the pecan tree is the state tree of TX.

"Men from lesser states may know their state capital but you – you know your state's bird, tree and reptile. You display your pride with your Lone Star tattoo… and contempt for any state that doesn’t start with Tex and end with iss.”

But I digress. Set your DVR's, you don't want to miss it. It IS the biggest state fair in the US of A. I can just hear Big Tex now, "Howdy Folks! Welcome to the State Fair of Texas!"

Whew! Back to life as normal. Or as normal as it can possibly get around here. I had some big undertakings goin' on round here this month. I was in charge of collecting donated items for Humanitarian School Kits for a big service night we had with the women at my church. Then I turned around and got to be in charge of Red Ribbon Week at the kids school. But that is all over now. And I must say, after spending 2 1/2 hours at the school every day last week, I have a much greater appreciation for teachers. Here is Zac and some of his friends during Red Ribbon Week.

On Friday I handed out my last pack of Smarties and said for the last time, "Be a Smartie, don't do drugs", tore down the Red Ribbon decorations, went home and packed my bags and hit the door baby. It was time again for my 24 hour Scrapbook Crop. Please pretend like I don't look so nasty in the photo below. I worked hard and came home with an 84 page album of our 2 weeks with Mike and Sheila this summer.

LaRee and I were all by ourselves this year because Laura had to go and pop out a kid and Dianna had to do homework. We missed you girls!

YAY!!! Steve painted the mud room wall. It is my sincere hope that before winter hits, this room will be complete with shelves for shoes and backpacks and hooks for coats and jackets. Hint, hint baby.

I have been on this "making doughnuts" kick lately. I don't know if it is the fall weather or what, but it just feels like doughnut making weather to me. The girls love getting in on the action.

If you wanna know how I make 'em, it is so dang easy. Now my Bishop's wife, she made doughnuts for the whole neighborhood last week and she made, made her doughnuts. In fact, Zac was watching her make them and he told her that I had just made doughnuts that week. Then he watched her a little longer and said, "Oh! Did you make your own dough? My mom just used dough out of a can for ours." So my doughnuts aren't as fabulous as hers, but for the likes of me, they will do. Here's how I make 'em:

I just get the refrigerated biscuit dough and use a bottle top (real fancy pants here) to make a hole in the center. Then I heat up some canola oil in a big pan and drop the dough in. It takes less than a minute for the first side to cook, then I flip 'em over and cook the other side. Then I drop them in a bowl of powdered sugar. Like I said, they aren't fancy, but we think they're yummy round here.