The first event came kind of as a surprise.
As I was walking out the door to go to FL
I got a call from the Trumbull County Fair asking if I wanted to come.

It was in ten days.


But once I got there it went ok. It was a little tiring with the whole 9am- 11pm thing.
And we had to give out lots of free samples to get people to understand what a crepe was in the first place

And now
the step by step process of making a caramel crepe.

Step 1. Pour batter and spread batter onto the griddle


Step 2. Let cook for a few seconds..it doesnt take long


Step 3. Turn over crepe


Step 4. Fill with desired amount of caramel


Step 5. Add Ice Cream et cest fini




And yes i AM wearing an American Flag shirt

So after Wyoming I decided to go into business for myself.

I'm still not quite sure that was a good idea, but I'm in a bit too deep now.

I bought a small concession stand


It was in worse shape than it even looked in the beginning.


Each bit of improvement just showed another layer of things that needed to be fixed.
In the end we ended up stripping the whole thing down and rebuild it.
New floor, new plumbing, new roof, new paint, new equipment. The end result looked something like this.


Now I'm off to the fair...
to see how I do..

i Lose things

everyone who has known me for any length of time tends to notice this trend
small things just seem to disappear around me.
sometimes it can be explained
for example the other day i grabbed an apple out of the fridge and put it on the pool table so i could put my coat on
when i went to pick it up
it was gone

as you may have guessed
it went down the left hand middle pocket
and got stuck
noah had to take the table apart to get it back

tonight i was coming home from walmart
my first trip in two months
and i had to go back 3 times for stuff that had fallen off
so it took me around an hour to go 5 miles up the mountain by snowmobile
with my stuff
but i am still missing a chapstick
i leave chapsticks around the country like Hansel and Gretel left bread crumbs

i found a new skiing trail with a spectacular view



and i made it about a third of the way back when i realized that i was missing one of my mittens
that i'd taken off because my hands were getting too sweaty
i eventually found it all the way at then end of the trail

stuff like this happens all the time, so sometimes i get frustrated
and sometimes i just buy multiples of the same thing
so if you see me walking out of a store with 3 of the same shirts
you know why

electronics are a completely different story
they just stop working on me
4 cars, 3 mp3 players, and most recently my computer's cd drive..
this is why i havent bought an ipod

oh well..
at least i have some cute shoes...

full moon + snow = beautiful

over the last couple of days we have gotten about a foot of snow
and a lots of wind
freezing wind
when i opened the door of my cabin my breath was taken away completely
leaving me gasping as i made my way thru thigh high snow drifts to the kitchen

in other words it was our first day real winter weather

in which i promptly got my car stuck

which lead to my spending the better part of a half on hour digging
with a small plastic car kit scrapper
under my car
because i wasnt about to ride back up and admit i'd gotten stuck
i got stubbornness from both sides, i didnt have a chance

when i finally got all of the snow dug out from around the wheels and from under the axel
noah comes down, and drives my car right out...


it figures
stupid boys...wait till we do the grunt work...and then take the glory...