While we had cabin guests that had escaped the city, we all loaded up and headed to Dallas for our annual visit to the State Fair of Texas. Big Tex is all fancied up in new clothes, but I did not really like his yellow shirt. The auto show has too many expensive cars that average 20 MPG.

We stopped by in the livestock exhibition building to say howdy to our heifer, Miss Kaya. She will be there for the entire fair to be an example of our breed. We thought she was the best looking one there. If you go to the fair, be sure and see her.

One special treat was a sneak preview of the Cotton bowl now that is has 92,000 new seats. The gate was unlocked to the tunnel and of course everyone made a dash like the UT Longhorns to make a grand entrance heading into the arena. About the time the grass was touched, a warden called out, "shame on you" and ran everyone out and she locked the gate.

As everyone does, we had our fill of fair food. I think the song in Charlottes's Web, A Veritable Smorgsbord is very appropriate for food at the fair. In our case we were not the rat, but we did have a great variety of fair food. Let's see.... Turkey Legs, Sausage on a Stick, Tamales, Fresh Lemonade, real Root Beer, fully loaded Funnel Cake, Tacos, Fletcher's Corny Dogs, fresh roasted Corn-on-a- Cob, and so on. If you have never been to the fair, or have not been recently, consider going. It is one of the best entertainment dollars you can spend in Texas.