Perfect Saturday

WOW!  what a great day I had today.  We welcomed our good friends Teri and John from Broken Arrow and they brought friends Phyllis and Dale.  We took our time getting up this morning, drank coffee and ate coffee cake and home-made granola made by Teri.  A light breakfast of egg and spinach muffin topped with sauteed morel mushrooms and onion, with fresh fruit on the side got us ready for a busy day.
After breakfast, we walked through the back woods to hunt for more mushrooms.  It was quite the adventure for all of us.  We were successful and brought home more than a dozen, which we sliced and fried up at dinner time. 
We were out in the woods for almost two hours!  Skeeter and Itzel stuck with us the entire time. We were all tired when we got back to the house.  After showers and a short nap, we went to town, gave a quick driving tour of Watonga, and ended up at the winery.  We had packed a "picnic" lunch of sandwiches and cheetos and shared it with Brad, the owner, while he gave our guests a tour of his operation. We didn't solve any of the world's problems, but just had a relaxing visit. 

At around 5:00 pm we headed to Okeene to see the Rattlesnake Roundup.  We knew Katie Ballew would be playing on stage so we wanted to be there to hear her and the band she is playing with, called "Yesterday's Wine".  It suddenly turned cold and windy and it was pretty miserable out on the grounds.  But inside the Rattlesnake tent it was cozy.  We listened to the stories of some old timers and watched the snake handlers in a big enclosed pen.  I even learned a thing or two about rattlesnakes! 

Andy had smoked a brisket yesterday, so we had it slow-cooking in the oven all day while we ran around. We then had brisket tacos with home-made guacamole, pico de gallo, and a sharp smoky dip, along with black beans.  We were all stuffed.  Andy had made a new dessert (thanks, DeeAnn for the recipe!) with chocolate graham crackers and ice cream -- too good to pass up.

We didn't have time to go to Roman Nose Park today but will definitely do that tomorrow!