Columnist Sally Ann Shurmur writes, “The good news is the Pokes won’t lose on Saturday, Nov. 9 or Saturday, Nov. 16.”
Staring at 1-7 with just four games to go, Wyoming Coach Jay Sawvel announced Monday that redshirt freshman Kaden Anderson is the starter at quarterback moving forward.
Anderson is an easy kid to root for, as Cody Tucker tells us in a 7220sports.com story this week.
Anderson lost his dad to brain cancer in August 2020 and had two ACL tears in high school, which pretty much erased the D1 offers he had collected to that point. Sound familiar?
So it will be Anderson on Saturday at 2 p.m., in Albuquerque, facing a much improved New Mexico team.
The Pokes have a bye on Nov. 9, then head to Fort Collins for a Friday night Border War on Nov. 15.
So that’s two Saturdays in a row free to get those holiday honey-do’s done.
The final home game is Saturday night, Nov. 23, when Boise State visits Laramie.
And the season concludes after Thanksgiving with a Nov. 30 date at Washington State.
Yes, we could finish 5-7 and on a positive note heading into the off-season.
Or…
In an attempt at transparency, I must sadly share that we were not in Laramie for last Saturday’s loss to Utah State.
I have postponed some health stuff because of football season and the legs have decided that that was a very dumb idea.
I started doctoring in January and was scheduled for some fixing in October, but then decided that it could wait until after football season. After all, we were coming off nine wins and had almost everybody back, right?
So last week the driver and wheelchair pusher finally said “no,” and we watched every play in my comfy living room.
Last time we missed a home game - 8:15 p.m. start and nowhere to sleep - the keyboard trolls had a big time. Even said I wasn’t a “real fan.”
Dandy.
Let me just grab the season ticket invoices and the Cowboy Joe Club membership fees and 62 years of game attendance and we can chat then.
In another update for readers of this space, the elusive holiday baking sugars have been found, all six bottles.
I understand someone looked online in an attempt to get them for me after last week’s column, and I am stunned at that kindness.
My driver found them at the local big box, two days after the manager said he hadn’t a clue.
The sea salt caramel sugar was perfect atop caramel brownies, especially served warm with vanilla ice cream.
And the gingerbread spice smells as good as it sounds and is fabulous in a cup of scalding hot coffee.
This weather has produced some great stuff in the kitchen, where the crockpot is my favorite appliance.
Recently, we have had ham and beans and beef stew, almost like Peggy Jane the Mom’s.
She worked on hers all afternoon, adding boiling water from the tea kettle to the flour-tossed chunks of beef in a gigantic skillet to slowly make the gravy.
As a working girl, I never had time for that so I load everything in the crockpot in the morning and it’s perfect at dinner time.
Mom always told us when we were little not to eat a bay leaf if we happened to come across one hidden in the stew. Actually, she told us it would kill us.
I remembered that story as I plucked a bay leaf out of my bowl of stew, ladeled up by Owen.
As I told him the story, I wondered aloud if he had hidden it on purpose.
Mom always said bay leaves were the magic ingredient in her stew.
Perhaps Kaden Anderson and Harrison Waylee have some magic in store Saturday for Pokes fans.
Sally Ann Shurmur can be reached at: SallyAnnShurmur@gmail.com
