Cow Chip Queen

Last Wednesday, my friend Kathleen and I worked a three-hour evening shift at the Kansas State Fair in the Newman University booth. Before we worked at the booth, we met her mom and a couple of her mom's fellow Red Hat friends at the beer garden inside the fairgrounds. Her mom had been at the fair all day with the Red Hats since it was their special day at the fair. One of the activities was a cow chip throwing contest which Kathleen's mom, Lovella, won by wide margin. Here she is with her winner's ribbon and the winning cow chip.

Lovella says she's bronzing the cow chip, and as she said this Kathleen's dad did a big eye roll. It was quite enjoyable to meet Kathleen's folks along with Lovella's friends Thelma and Louise. I kid. Louise was only her middle name, her first name was actually Georgia. But I preferred calling her Louise for some strange reason. We (all but Thelma) made our way over to the Cottonwood building, where some of us dined on delicious chicken and noodles. The cow chip came with us, but Lovella kept it in the plastic bag while we ate.

Fair fun

I went to the Kansas State Fair last Friday. Took a vacation day and worked a two-hour shift at the Newman University booth (my alma mater). The shift was easy and it got me free access to the fair for the rest of the day. On the way to Hutchinson that morning, my friend Laurie (she is a Newman grad, too, and worked the same shift as I did) stopped at the Carriage Crossing restaurant in Yoder for breakfast. Pure heaven. I was too busy eating to take a picture of the plate. But you won't be disappointed if you ever decide to eat breakfast there.

At the fair I was delighted to see this sign in the restrooms:

My Mom is a germ freak and is constantly washing hands and encouraging others to do the same. I always knew you were right and now I have proof!

I also got nose to nose with this camel at the Hedrick's petting zoo:


Then Laurie and I attended the Gretchen Wilson concert that night. I know about two of her songs, but I went anyway. It was fun except for the stand-all-through-the-concert-and-spill-beer gals to my right who were blocking the big screen so I couldn't see a whole lot. Oh well. They were having fun. Here's one picture I took at the concert that I didn't think turned out half bad considering we were all the way up in row 29 of the grandstand:


I went back to the fair on Saturday and worked another shift at the Newman booth with another friend, Kathleen. I was too delirious to take any pictures that day. Sue me.