Last week's heat was probably the cause of a bit of a soft week.  Fredericksburg sales dropped about $300 but then who wants to eat a Ribeye Sandwich when it's 103 degrees!   We still went thru 2 1/2 whole ribeyes so it wasn't a complete bust.  Then, we got to welcome some new members to the Big Red family when we set up at Staunton Walmart for the first time.  Store Manager Tim and Joni, who handles the Children's Miracle Network funds from Staunton, made us feel quite at home.  While it wasn't a great weekend which I had expected since Staunton is a huge volume store, the three days were solid and we raised a decent amount for CMN.  Funnel Cake sales were off a bit--I was also competing against the Augusta County Fair two miles down the road where they probably had six Funnel Cake stands--but I sold the hell out of fresh squeezed lemonade and hot dogs.  Also, I couldn't really complain about my volume because Peggy totally flaked out on me Saturday and Sunday and I had to work it by myself.  Actually, we think she may have had a kidney stone attack on Wednesday, spent the day in the hospital, then worked Thursday and Friday in the heat.  By Saturday morning, she was shot. Most of you know that I live in a complete fog, but once again I need your help.  One of my customers came up with a brand new T-shirt with the caption: BFF:l.  Anyone know what that means?  She didn't and I sure don't.  I also saw a pick-up truck with Health Consultants on the side.  Right under it said, "Meter Reader".  Think about that one!  Do they go around reading peoples heart monitors?  Or do they now have Blood Pressure thingies attached to the Electric Company meter at the side of a house?  Sunday, about 1:00 pm, an elderly lady came up to the stand and ordered a lemonade.  She was dressed to the nines, obviously just coming from church.  I was waiting for some type of blessing when she took a sip and said, " Damn, that's good," and walked away.  Where is Jerry when you need him. Now, a note about the blog.  As you can tell, I'm now a part of Houseofalls.com, the home site of my son's serious side, Jasonfalls.com; his humorous, sarcastic and totally perverted side, Fallsofftherocker.com; and Big Red's Cleaning Crew site, Grantfalls.com where you can find every picture taken of my grandson since his birth, plus a couple of movies he has now starred in.  Obviously, this is still a work in progress, especially my blog.  So please let me know what you think, any suggestions, etc.  Also, if this works right, when I post this missive, you will automatically get a notice that there is something new with the link to click on if you for some reason want to read it.  If it doesn't work right, either out of my stupitiy, I did something wrong; or Jason screwed up.  In that case, you'll find him hanging from the huge oak tree outside my back door. I did get some bad news.  Americrown, who is the concessionaire for Nascar races, decided last week to do Funnel Cakes in house and cancelled me out of my races at the last minute.  So I didn't go to Watkins Glen and won't be in Michigan this week.  I'm  scrambling trying to get refunds for the motel fees, camp ground fees and camper rental fees that I had to pay in full  last February.  Kansas in September is still a possibility.  They will let me know on that shortly.  Damn fools!!!!!! Noah, my main man at RIR--for those of you that don't speak Funnelcakeeze, that's Richmond International Raceway--did save next weekend when I was supposed to be in Michigan.  He called and asked me to do the Total Cage Combat Event at RIR on Saturday.  Sounds right up my ally, whatever it is.  I think they put two steroid laddened goons in a cage and one comes out alive while thousands of drunken fans go nuts.  So we're headed back to Richmond after Fredericksburg on Thursday. This has led me to contemplate several philosophical questions:  Do beer drinking rednecks eat funnel cakes?  Do the same beer drinking rednecks have designated drivers that swill lemonade and sweet tea?  Do I need to wear my bullitproof apron?  The answers to these and other such things next time.