Back for More Education at BYU!?

Richard and I are back in Utah this week, for our 4th Annual (together at least as I have been out many other times, but it is not as fun as with my sweetie) BYU Education Week.

This is sort of a summer camp for adults, Mormon Style...Also, we get to visit old friends, eat out at great new places, visit relatives, eat out at more great new places, go to Temple Square and walk around the Temple and enjoy the beautiful flowers and the serenity of the Temple Grounds, and of course, EAT OUT AT GREAT NEW PLACES!!!

We left temperatures in Tulsa of 106+ daily for the past 6 weeks or so for the 90's here with the cool shade and cool evenings and nights and dry air...a pretty good trade for a while. 

We had a great drive out together.  We listened to an audio book by Glenn Beck entitiled, "The Overton Window".  Pretty thought provoking stuff.  I plan on getting lots more organic seeds, food storage, and being more political even than I have been in the past!!!  Since I have just been reading the last chapters of Alma in ghe Book of Mormon, the book took on a special significance to me.  Also, how can anyone deny the situation we are in today politically and socially in the USA.  It indeed is time, if ever there was one, to re-raise the Title of Liberty and live it....

We get to go and have dinner with our old friends, Terry and Judy Nisson tonight.  That is a good thing.  We have not seen Terry since they moved from Tulsa about 20+ years ago.  I have seen Judy and keep up with her by emailing her.  Fun is expected and - eating out in a great new place called Madelyn's Steak House.
We only had soup for lunch in preparation for a great dinner.  I say preparation is the key to success, right.

All for this day...Go forth and serve...

To My Bestest Friend (except for Jesus and Richard) Scarlett!

Happy Happy Birthday, Scarlett dear...
I wish you happiness throughout this new year..
If I had a wish then it would be...
A trip to Hawaii for you and me!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DOC..
XOXOXXO

OKIE STYLE GRANOLA

Homemade Granola




Ingredients



• 4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats

• 2 cups sweetened, shredded coconut

• 2 cups sliced almonds

• 1 1/2 cups dried cherries, chopped

• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

• 1/3 cup good honey

• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

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Directions



Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.



Toss the oats, coconut, almonds, and cherries together in a large bowl. Pour the vegetable oil and honey over the oat mixture. Add the cinnamon, and stir with a wooden spoon until all the oats and nuts are coated with the liquids. Pour onto a sheet pan. Bake, stirring occasionally with a spatula, until the mixture turns a nice, even golden brown, about 25 to 30 minutes. Remove the granola from the oven and allow to cool, stirring occasionally. Store the cooled granola in an airtight container.



You can use any nut and any dried fruit…..

Why "Okie" and not "Sissy's!

Back in 1976 I worked in a Girl Scout Camp above Park City, UT.  I was the camp nurse.  If anyone has ever been a councilor or worker in a Girls Scout Camp (or probably any other summer camp) you know that everyone gets a 'camp name' to use instead of their real name.  Well, mine was OKIE...real genuine, huh, since I was the only one there from Oklahoma!!!  Now my nickname in our family forever has been, 'Sissy"...but, that just did not seem to fit.  Also, with my plans for the hot-pepper business I spoke of in an earlier posting, "Sissy's Fire" just didn't seem to be, you know, hot-peppery enough...So, since in the short future I will be a famous hot-pepper product mogul, I though it would sound more secure and strong to use, "OKIE FIRE".  Does that explain anything??? Perhaps not, but it made for a good posting today...
Love and Power to all to Walk the Walk...Elaine