Let me tell you the story of how we met Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman.
The reason I bring this story up right now is that just a few minutes ago we received our 1st order of Ree Drummond's new cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks Dinnertime.
Our daughter Sabrina spends time online hunting down things of interest. Years ago when she worked at a Museum in Tulsa, she had discovered a blogger named Ree Drummond. At the time, Ree was not as well known as she is today.
Sabrina ordered The Pioneer Woman's calendar (no longer available) to give her co-workers for holiday gifts. Sabrina continued to follow Ree's blog.
At one point, Ree announced that she was going to have a cooking demonstration at her lodge and invited followers to put their name in a drawing to be invited to this demonstration. Sabrina put her name in and she was selected to go, along with a guest.
Her guest?? Jeff, her dad.
On the appointed day, Sabrina and Jeff drove up to the lodge and had a great time with several other guests participating in the cooking demonstration with Ree Drummond and her guest from New York. Among other things they learned to make pretzels. The highpoint of the afternoon, though, was the delicious lunch which Ree served to her guests.
That day sealed Sabrina's enthusiasm for The Pioneer Woman and started Sweet Tooth ordering all her cookbooks, her autobiography and some of the Charlie story books which Ree wrote.
In addition, Sabrina's enthisiasm for Ree caught on with me and Jeff. We have become devoted followers of her cooking show. We even place our commercials on her show.
Every Sunday afternoon we sit down to watch Ree's t.v. program which we have DVRed from its Saturday debut. Sometimes we even catch our ad on the show and that is a lot of fun too.
So, Pioneer Woman, we have adopted you completely. We know the feeling of the beginning of the empty nester stage of life as you sent your oldest daughter off to college. We have used your recipes for our meals and we truly enjoy the idea of a vegetarian, now devoted to eating beef!! We also enjoyed watching you create Falafel in Pita Bread this past week, a sandwich we truly love as well.
Oklahoma has many wonderful celebrities. Ree Drummond is certainly one of our favorites.
Monday, October 19, 2015
Thursday, October 1, 2015
What You Should Know About Credit Card Chip Technology
October is a special month for credit card technology. Retailers are required to have new credit card processing machines in place which will accept the new chip technology, as well as the magnetic strip on your card. Gas stations have until 2017 to install that technology.
You will be relieved to know that Sweet Tooth has had its new credit card machines for about 2 weeks. Frankly, there is very little change on our side about how to use credit cards with the chip on them. Let me tell you a few things you need to know about this new technology.
A chip card is a debit or credit card with a built-in microchip which you can easily see on the front of your card. The chip provides greater security and convenience for you when you use your credit card. The microchip is encrypted and that makes it extremely difficult for someone to copy or counterfeit your credit card.
European countries and Canada have had this technology for a while. If you made a recent trip to one of those places you may have run into some difficulty if your credit card did not have the microchip. Even though chip cards may have a magnetic strip on the back, it is much better and more secure for you to use the chip.
Because we are a retailer, we do not require a PIN number to process purchases. However if you are attempting to withdraw money from an ATM you may find that you cannot do so without a PIN number.
Jeff is due a huge pat on the back for working early to make certain that Sweet Tooth had the correct technology for accepting chip credit cards. I think I need a pat on the back for remembering how to process that card. We have already had several customers make purchases with their new chip credit card. Those customers have the security of knowing that they will not be a victim of fraud as long as they use their "chip".
You will be relieved to know that Sweet Tooth has had its new credit card machines for about 2 weeks. Frankly, there is very little change on our side about how to use credit cards with the chip on them. Let me tell you a few things you need to know about this new technology.
A chip card is a debit or credit card with a built-in microchip which you can easily see on the front of your card. The chip provides greater security and convenience for you when you use your credit card. The microchip is encrypted and that makes it extremely difficult for someone to copy or counterfeit your credit card.
European countries and Canada have had this technology for a while. If you made a recent trip to one of those places you may have run into some difficulty if your credit card did not have the microchip. Even though chip cards may have a magnetic strip on the back, it is much better and more secure for you to use the chip.
Because we are a retailer, we do not require a PIN number to process purchases. However if you are attempting to withdraw money from an ATM you may find that you cannot do so without a PIN number.
Jeff is due a huge pat on the back for working early to make certain that Sweet Tooth had the correct technology for accepting chip credit cards. I think I need a pat on the back for remembering how to process that card. We have already had several customers make purchases with their new chip credit card. Those customers have the security of knowing that they will not be a victim of fraud as long as they use their "chip".
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