Whole Wheat Honey Oat Bread

     Bread by request.  Yes, I can.  My cousin Pil (last name Pilarinos) asked me if I ever made whole wheat bread.  I told her I could make anything.  She asked if I could make a whole wheat bread for my Aunt Soul.  I found a recipe on King Arthur Flour using whole wheat, oats, some honey, sugar, cinnamon and vanilla.  I really thought the bread would sweet, but it just has a hint of sweetness.  This is a great loaf for sandwiches, for a snack with a little peanut butter, or for French toast.  It sliced very easily despite it being so soft.  I hope my Aunt Soul likes it.
     I know I've talked about my aunts and uncles names before and that Aunt Soul's name is actually Soulita.  When Richard and I were young Aunt Soul, Uncle Nick (who was Greek), and Pil moved to Waxahachie, Texas.  My mother, brother, and I took a train trip to see them.  It truly was the middle of no where Texas back then.  There were small clusters of houses, but lots of wide open space.  While there, Rick and I caught a horned toad.  We had never seen anything like it before.  Living by Lake Pontchartrain we had seen all matter of fish, turtles, snakes, frogs, and lizards, but never a toad with "spikes."  We put the toad in a box and brought it home on the train.  The few other kids in the neighborhood were just as amazed by this toad as we were.  We had the toad outside playing with it, and it got away.  I think the poor thing was fed up with it's fame and us.
     Pil and Aunt Soul ended up in Waxahachie after Katrina.  It was much bigger than they remembered.  It is now a suburb of Dallas/Fort Worth.  They moved to Alexandria because Wayne and I moved to Pineville.  Wayne and I moved to Pineveille because his sisters had moved to Moreauville (which makes Pineville look like New York City). His sisters are no longer in the area, as I've mentioned before Gerry died a couple of years ago, and Ms. Carol is living in Picayune.  Pil is living in a small apartment that she loves, and Aunt Soul, now 92, is in a nursing home.  It's nice to have some family living near by.  I hope Pil and Aunt Soul enjoy the bread, because it contains one very special ingredient - love.