Bronco Bites

Yesterday I listed some bucket list things I wanted to do this summer.  Tonight at the grocery store I thought of something else that I have been wanting to do for a long time.  A few years back I took my cousins son Yoshi (he really answers to this) to a BYU football game. At some point during the day, we decided that Bronco Bites sounded like something you would eat. The origin of the name is actually the title of a pre-game radio segment with the head coach of the BYU football team Bronco Mendenhall.  Ever since then I have had this idea to create something to fit the name.

I have narrowed it down a bit over the past couple of years so I have something to work off of.  When I hear "Bronco Bites" I immediately think of two things, small and western. With that in mind I am picturing some sort of bar-b-que slider.  This is where I get stuck...what meat and bar-b-que sauce to use.  I have three different meat ideas and I almost feel like I need make a sauce from scratch for it to truly be my own creation.  Good thing I like grillin'!  Once I get that figured out I will have to see if any other toppings might be involved.  Does it need cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, coleslaw or should it stand alone?  

I'm kind of excited to see where this little food journey takes me.   

Live like you were dying

"...I went skydiving 
I went Rocky Mountain climbing 
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named fu man chu 
And I loved deeper 
And I spoke sweeter 
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying" 
And he said 
"Someday I hope you get the chance 
To live like you were dying" 
Like tomorrow was a gift 
And you've got eternity 
To think about 
What you'd do with it 
What could you do with it 
What did I do with it? 
What would I do with it? 

Tim McGraw-Live like you were dying

I'm still trying to find some balance in my life but lately things have come to mind that I really want to do.  Nobody panic, there is nothing wrong with me.  I just want to live a life that makes me happy.   I don't ever want to look back and think I wish I would have done this or that.  I know that reality has to take its place in this whole thing.  I am certainly not independently wealthy so I can't just take off on some world tour but I can start doing some more things I enjoy.  I hope that as I work toward this goal of balance I can share some of my experiences with you along the way.

I have come up with a few summer bucket list items I am aiming to complete this year:

• learn how to golf
• visit somewhere in Utah that I have never been to
• go camping
• grow vegetables
• photograph landmarks, interesting to me, in Provo and Orem

Hoping for more

I don't feel like I have much personal time these days due to some situations at work.  We have a new person starting tomorrow that will be helping me out so hopefully she can take some of the work load off of me.  I am hoping to get back to doing some blogging and a few of the other hobbies I enjoy,until then... bare with me and my sporadic postings.

On a completely unrelated note, in doing some Genealogy this past summer I learned that the Morrison's are primarily Irish not Scottish as I have always believed. So, in the spirit of what is left of today:

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Again - Jessie Clark Funk

Again - Jessie Clark Funk

Lent 2013

The past several years I have participated in Lent in my own way.  I have given up french fries, soda, chocolate, sugar and TV.  This year I have decided to take a little different approach.  Instead of some tangible item I am giving up complaining.  Yep that is right, complaining.  I do it a lot and I have noticed it has been getting increasing worse the past few months.  Just today I was complaining about all sorts of things.  I really need to stop!  So for the next 40 days I may be mute.

Blessings

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