Donuts on Halloween

This picture turned out lighter than it was when I got to church at 4 a.m. Saturday for my donut frosting shift. Andy was frying donuts Friday night, came home and slept about three hours, then was back to captain the first shift. He was there at 1:30 a.m. for his 2 a.m. shift. Oy.

Our stellar crew. Not the best picture of me but I was up at 3:30 a.m. so it is what it is.

Love when my relief shows up a bit early!

We went home and napped until B called. We figured we'd sleep all day if we didn't get out of the house so we did some shopping. We picked up a pizza for dinner and they gave us some trick-or-treat candy. Being out we successfully avoided the trick-or-treaters at home.

I'd say my find of the day was this Melissa & Doug checker/backgammon board for $2. And it has all of the checkers! It was wrapped up tightly in plastic so I took a chance. It's pretty so I might hang it on the wall in L's old room. Now to get Andy to play with me.

Andy at Club 33

Andy's recent work trip took him to California and his client belongs to Disney's exclusive Club 33.

So the client invited Andy and coworkers to dinner at the club.

It was a prix fixe menu and crazy expensive.

A Haunted Mansion decoration for Halloween, I assume?

Fancy.

He brought home fancy chocolate and some souvenirs from the gift shop. I might be able to post more pictures if he gets them from his coworker.

And speaking of Disney, here's L all dressed up for Halloween. The client said he'd take L to Club 33 if she ever gets to Disneyland. She would love that.

Halloween treats

Andy's office had its annual Halloween party the other day. He forgot to dress up. Anyway, he brought home two caramel apples. The big bottle of wine was a gift from a coworker who is leaving and moving to another state.

More mahjong ducks

Andy and I came back from mahjong Monday with three more ducks for our combined collection. Andy won two games and I won one.

It was nice to have our friend Nancy join us. She bought herself a set so maybe we'll play on our own if we can get her husband interested.

Puzzling pumpkins

This 1,000-piece "Heirloom Pumpkins" puzzle was a lot harder than I anticipated. The puzzle colors don't match the poster colors and many of the colors are similar. It did provide a nice resting area for Ruby.

This took a long time but I finished before Halloween!

There's one piece missing and I thought I opened this one new. Fortunately, I found the "missing" piece when I was putting the puzzle away!

Sunflower farm date

How cute are these two?

L sent a few pictures from their Saturday night date outing.

Sunflower fields are amazing.

My pretty girl.

This is a sweet one.

Last crop day

Another crop day, another gift waiting for me at my station Sunday morning - stickers and a fall car coaster.

I finished our Key West 2025 vacation pictures.

Darla won the 10 a.m. "in your seat" drawing!

Group picture.

And the big group picture (minus Darla and Alice).

On the drive home Cindy took me down Staunton's Main Street. This is a new mural.

Andy had no dinner planned so we went to Magarita's. I don't recall ever seeing a Day of the Dead shrine there before so that was neat.

Delicious as usual.

Saturday at the crop

Lots of scrapbooking was happening on Saturday.

Cindy and I took a lunch break at our usual place - Chicken Salad Chick.

I got started on the Alaskan cruise album.

This page describes all the games we played with our new-found Houston friends. So fun.

Our table.

Dinner offering at the hotel - teriyaki chicken, broccoli and salad.

At about 10 p.m. this soccer dad wanders into the room and starts asking the organizer, Glenda, all about scrapbooking. He must have talked to her for at least 15 minutes, looking at various scrapbooks and asking questions. Cindy and I think he must have lost a bet with the other soccer parents staying at the hotel and was forced to come and see what scrapbooking was all about.

For some reason, Drury Inn thought it was a good idea to put a full mirror on a closet right next to the entrance for the bathroom. I draped my sweatshirt ober the mirror so we'd srop running into it. It worked - kind of like those stickers they put on windows so birds don't crash.

We made it to the crop

The scrapbooking crop started at 9 a.m. Friday but that's too early. Cindy and I were up and out by then, but we were hitting yard sales. You don't see buck urine on suburban yard sale. Obviously we weren't in the burbs. He had lots of hunting knives for sale too.

The second yard sale we went to in Gillespie had so much stuff and so reasonably (and kind of low) prices. Cindy got this footstool for $5 and the table for $2! We dropped it off at her house before continuing on our way. Look at those cute vintage pumpkin things - $1.50 for all three. And the fall reversible table runner was $2.

Didn't buy this lol. Look closely.

Why didn't I buy this?

I took my work earrings out when I got home Thursday and forget to put in my hoops. I found some Halloween earrings I thought maybe I'd wear again so I'm sporting skeletons.

We got to the crop around 2:30 p.m.

Treats were waiting for us.

Dinner at the hotel was pork carnitas with a very generous double pour of wine.

Cindy being creative with paper scraps.

I finished my album of E's wedding.