In Other News…
–by Carla
Didn’t you love Heather’s post about The State Fair of Texas?! Listen, if you’re not from these parts (ok, fine…no, we really don’t all talk like that in Texas), my gentle advice to you is to start looking at airfare today for your flight to Dallas for next year’s Great State Fair of Texas. What a great family tradition it has been all my life and it’s something I’m passing along to the boys already. In fact,
Donald does a bang-up job doing Big Tex: “Hoooooowwwwwwdy Folks! Welcome to the Great State Fair of Texas!” and he’s just two and a half. SO stinkin’ stankin’ cute. We went twice this year. Once on opening day and then the last Friday of the Fair. We paid entry and parking (and of course, coupons) the 1st time, but an awesome friend gave us free tickets with free parking and all we ponied up was money for ….well, more coupons…which were mainly for the corny dogs. Oh my stars, Fletcher’s corny dogs with mustard (if you add anything other than mustard, you’re not from these parts). Not the healthiest thing on earth, but a rare treat once or twice a year. Totally worth it.
Ok enough of all that. I’m craving another corny dog just writing about it all. Well there was that news story once again last week that the recession was “officially” over. I thought we’d gone over that before, but ok. It’s funny, we were having a screen door installed this week and the husband mentioned something about a local mega-development that has been in the works for years but is now on the brink of foreclosure…and I mockingly said, “Well, I don’t know why. I mean, the recession is over!”. And the worker dude who was installing our door popped his head around the corner (he was pretty chatty, come to think of it) and said, “yeah, right…I don’t buy that for a minute”. Maybe he’s got something there. Man, now that I think of it, he really was blabbing up a storm. That’s a far cry from the fix-it man we had when I was a kid. The one with that sleeping disorder that makes you pass out cold exactly where you are….and you just sleep. Mr. Phillips would be working on something and next thing you know, you’d see his shoes sticking out in the hallway and he’d be snoozing. Poor guy. I’ll never forget Mr. Phillips. We had him over a lot.
So this was a quick post without any of the awesome pics I had picked out because I’m having technical trouble…aka “Carla just doesn’t know her way around a computer”. I’ll be sure to brush up on all of that in my spare time … just in time for next Friday’s post.
In other news…did ya happen to notice the new look here at Recession Mamas?
Have a great weekend!
; )
Tags: Big Tex, Dallas, news, recession, State Fair of Texas, weekend
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Love the new look of the Web site, and as always, enjoy your posts!
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Thank you, Mark. Glad you enjoyed it. : )
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:09 pm
I don’t think the recession is over. And even if it is technically then the recovery is going to a “spell” as we say in these parts. Oh poor Mr.Phillips! I imagine that narcolepsy could make it tuff to get those home improvements done.
October 24th, 2009 at 5:19 am
The recession seems to have bottomed out, but there are still lots of bad after effects, like a hangover after a night of binging…except without any of the fun. Sorry if that was terrible. I’m sleep deprived.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Love you girls!! Y’all make me laugh. : )