Miss Carol Takes Me To Skagit County Fair & Linda Lou's Blue Ribbons

The photo documentation you are seeing showed up this Friday morning of the 8th day of the 2025 version of August, from Burlington, Washington's Miss Carol BD.

The text with the photo said, "Look what our classmate entered at the Fair!".

I had to zoom in to the photo to figure out to which classmate Miss Carol was referring.

Linda Lou was the answer.

The fair we are talking about is the Skagit County Fair, which takes place at the fairgrounds in the Skagit Valley town, Mount Vernon, in which I lived prior to moving to Texas.

Via zooming in on the photo I was able to learn that Linda Lou won herself two blue ribbons. One for her renowned Iced Oatmeal Bars. The other for her equally renowned Blackberry Hand Pies.

It has been a few years since I enjoyed participating in Linda Lou's kitchen skills. That would have been back in October of 2018, at my mom's, in Sun Lake, Arizona, when Linda Lou and I cooperated in making Beef Stroganoff.

It has been a few decades since I have been to the Skagit County Fair.

Miss Carol BD included additional text in which she explained how she came to find Linda Lou's Iced Oatmeal Bars and Blackberry Hand Pies.

"I was at the Skagit County Fair part of the day as two of my grandsons have 4-H pigs and one steer so Grandma needed to be there watching them. I also went and looked at the quilts, flowers and photo entries and saw Linda's entry."

Items like this tend to make me a bit homesick....

14th Day In A Row Over 100 Hiking With Decapitated Tandy Hills Prickly Pear Cactus

You are looking at a patch of decapitated Prickly Pear Cactus, sliced off by a mad mower on the Tandy Hills. I don't know what provoked this act of destruction. No crime scene tape was seen on the scene.

I was on the hills hiking before the temperature went over the 100 degree mark, making this Friday the 13th the 14th day in a row we have gone over 100 in North Texas.

My pool is no longer all that refreshing. I like a jolt of cold in my swimming water. I don't like the sensation that feels like swimming in a big pool of hot sweat.

There was a slight breeze blowing on the Tandy Hills today. This made the HEAT tolerable. Somewhat.

Betty Jo Bouvier, the Wild Woman of Woolley, is braving Washington's 90 degree scorcher today to go to the Skagit County Fair to imbibe in the Homebrew Competition.

The State Fair of Texas, in Dallas, starts up next month, I think. How come there is no Homebrew Competition at the Texas State Fair? It's not in a dry zone.

A Seattle Space Needle like tower is to be added to Fair Park, that being the location of the State Fair of Texas. I don't think I've been to the Fair Park zone of Dallas since my mom and dad were here the first week of 2009. For all I know Fair Park's Space Needle like tower is ready to open for the upcoming fair. But I suspect not.

I did not HEAT up too excessively with my hill hiking today. But, I did head for the Town Talk cooler afterwards for some refreshing frigidity.