When we last visited Jim’s folks ranch a couple of weeks ago, their grandson Joseph helped them pick out goats. During his summer visit with the grandparents, he is bonding further with the goats and informs us that they like overdone peanut butter cookies. Sorry, Grandma Margie!
When we visited a couple of weeks ago, every morning the sounds of country singer Marty Robbins wafted through the house… “Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl….”
So this five year-old is now a country singer, cowboy (don’t want to see him with cows as he’s an expert at locking up our Zoe with our smart dog being none the wiser) and has a future in animal husbandry if he doesn’t go into something silly like physics.
We’ve some news for this future rancher. “Don’t tell anyone the only protein you eat is chicken fingers! Have some veggies and starch, an egg and maybe even beef so you can grow up into a big cowboy. After all, you loved my festive coleslaw. That’s a start. Love, Aunt Dee”
Cooking with Dee 
btw Jim introduced Scotland to Marty Robbins. At our going-away party he sang that song. No, he doesn’t drink, but we had the restaurant rocking.
Everyone sang “Deep in the Heart of Texas” and it was a fond farewell indeed. We miss Scotland.
Love that Marty Robbins song. Now go look for “Red Velvet Slippers” by Juni Fisher, and you’ll hear poor Felina’s side of the story!
Great song! Of course I downloaded it on iTunes but already had Marty Robbins’ original El Paso.
Jim remembered there are other sequels by Marty Robbins, here: ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso_(song)#San_Angelo