Doughnuts & caskets

Andy got home from his Texas trip at about 11:30 p.m. last night. He immediately got to work making chocolate frosting for the church's last doughnut day of the Farmers Market season. It's been the tradition to make a bag of chocolate batter for the last day, and Andy came up with the idea a couple years ago that they needed frosting. He used 16 pounds of powdered sugar to make enough frosting for 53 dozen doughnuts. Instead of one bag of chocolate mix this year, two bags were ordered, making about 110 dozen chocolate cake doughnuts. Of course, they made the regular doughnuts, too. As you can see in the picture, there are chocolate cake doughnuts, chocolate-frosted chocolate cake doughnuts, powdered sugar doughnuts - both regular and chocolate - and the old standby, cinnamon sugar-coated doughnuts. B and his friends, IR and B, had a lot to choose from when they woke up in morning.

We took the girls to Forest Park this morning for the Second Annual Casket Races. I heard about it last year and thought we should see it this year. Ten teams competed, pushing caskets down the street in a race. Racing caskets may seem odd, but according to the village, "With all the famous folks buried in Forest Park (and the fact that thirty times the living population are interred in Forest Park cemeteries) it's a perfect fit!"

After the race, L went from store to store doing a little trick-or-treating. She had a "Scream" mask to wear while trick-or-treating, but kept taking it off because it was bothering her. I managed to get a picture of the girls by one of the caskets. I think this one came in last.