As you know, I rarely correspond with you concerning my wishes for Christmas. Usually, it is a holiday I'd rather ignore since because of the seasonal nature of my business, I never have any money in December, can never do what I'd like to do and would rather forget the whole month. This year is worse than usual as the evil dwellers at the hospital and the turkey that will be yielding the knife on my lower extremities next month, have deleted what funds I had left from my last successful event in Martinsville which seems like months ago.

However, this year I'd like to request one thing. Can you please get my days and nights straightened up?  I've seen 4AM 18 out of the last 19 days and last night, endured a Walker, Texas Ranger Marathon. That was awful.

Santa, if you can do this, I'll make you a deal. As you know, I have recently followed in the path of other great scientific minds, like Louie Pasteur, Jonas Salk and Kermit the Frog and conducted experiments with fresh made donuts. Yesterday culminated those experiments with my successfully producing them from Big Red at a location nearby (Meineke in Forest). While not successful financially, I spent 4 times what I took  in just on supplies, plus no one knew I'd be there or what my donuts were like, I proved that it could be done, and they were fantastic. This time, I only did glazed and sugar donuts, but will add cinnamon and powdered sugar next time out.

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If you can fix the night and day business where I sleep when it's dark and am awake when the sun shines, I'll leave you a plate of donuts under the tree on Christmas Eve. You'll have to find me at Peggy's in Harrisonburg since my sister and niece can't stand me during the holidays, but I'll take care of you and try to curb my Bah Humbugness.

Thanks. Santa

From

The Fat Donut and Funnel Cake Guy, formerlly known as the Fat Funnel Cake Guy

Big Red's venture to the VSHL state championship games was successful but a bit disappointing yesterday at Liberty. And, as expected, the night game was brutally cold.

The first game featured local Brookville High School and a huge crowd. Over the years we've discovered we do far better at lopsided games--fans will keep us busy throughout the entire game. When a game is close, fans tends to stay in their seats. 

Brookville won the game on a field goal with about 30 seconds remaining in the 4th quarter. While pregame and halftime were great, we did very little during the game. Thus, our disappointment.

The second game between Briar Wood and Christiansburg was much smaller crowd. We closed shortly into the 4th quarter when the temperatures were nearing 25.

Still not a bust but nowhere near what we did with Amherst in the finals several years ago.

The important thing from yesterday was the information we gleamed from a fan during the second game. While waiting for a corn dog to cook, he told Peggy, "I wonder if they grow dem corndogs in Virginia. You know dem good hot dogs are growed over in West Virginia."

Hmmmmm. Folks, even I couldn't make that one up.

For the 3rd time in the past five years, Big Red will be doing its thing at the VHSL state championships Saturday at Liberty. And, one of the games will feature a local school so large crowds are expected.

The first game is at noon with the Brookville Bees taking on James Monroe from Fredericksburg. The nightcap will feature Christiansburg vs Brior Woods.

The last time we had a state championship game with a local school was with Amherst in 2007 which set a football game record for Big Red that was just broken this year. So, we are preparing for another big day.

In other Big Red news, I hope to have a local spot to play with fresh made donuts next week, an item I may be adding to our menu. What???? Fresh made donuts???? Hmmmm.