By Sheri Hopkins, Lifestyle Contributor
Hello everyone!! Been wet in the River Valley. We needed it, so that’s okay. We are having our family Easter this Saturday at my nephew’s—you all know the one—so I am going to have some stories to tell next week. We are going to cook out and have a big egg hunt for the kids.
Did you all ever hang posters on your wall when you were teenagers?? Back in my day it was Tom Selleck, aka Magnum P.I. I had a poster of him on my wall, and most of the guys back then had Farrah Fawcett. My younger sister was in love with Leif Garrett—she thought he was dreamy. If you are my age, you remember Teen Beat magazine.
Speaking of magazines, there was the National Enquirer. If you ever checked out at the local grocery store or Walmart, you got to stand there and read all the headlines. It was all fake news—like they would have a giant snake swallowing a man or a half-man, half-alligator. You couldn’t help but look at all that crazy stuff.
I had an older brother—his name was Jerry. If it was in the National Enquirer, he believed it. You could not convince him it was not true. We made fun of him, but he didn’t care—it was all true in his eyes.
There was also National Geographic—my dad loved that magazine. There was also True Grit, and those old West magazines. My dad loved all of those. Those were the good old days. My dad passed when I was 18, and let me tell you, I have never stopped missing him.
I had two older brothers, and they were both in the Army. My brother Larry reenlisted and retired from the Army. They were stationed in Panama City, Panama. Keep in mind, Wagoner men are pretty tall, and the Panamanians were not tall people—Wagoners are just big people. My brother and sister-in-law decided to have a yard sale, and she had put in some of my brother’s jeans. One of the customers held a pair up and kept repeating, “Grande!! Grande!!”—which we all know means large!! Needless to say, I don’t think they sold any of them.
You all have a blessed week—hug your loved ones hard.
NO BAKE COCONUT COOKIES
1 ¾ cup sugar
½ cup butter or margarine
½ cup milk
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups quick oats
1 cup coconut
optional chopped almonds
In a a large saucepan, heat the butter, sugar, milk and cocoa. Bring to a full rolling boil and boil for one minute. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla, oats, coconut and almonds (optional) and mix well. Drop by the spoonful onto parchment paper. Let it stand for one hour. Hope you enjoy these. Have a wonderful week and always count your blessings.
