I think I've got the hang of making granola now, it's no longer a major operation. The batch is doubled from the recipes I compared and picked ingredients from. It has about equal parts oats and nuts (various), and I use a mix of avocado oil and honey for the toasting and sweetness. Parchment paper on a rimmed baking sheet and this batch fills it but isn't too much. Bake an hour, turn every 20 minutes, and add raisins after it finishes baking. This batch of 1/2 cup servings lasts about 3 weeks. It meets my goal of getting fiber and of eating more nuts (as a healthy snack or regular part of the diet.) It costs less than buying it at the store and doesn't have sodium and preservatives. A major objective was to have a mix that isn't too sticky or sweet, and I've reached that by doubling everything except the oil and honey.

Cat sitting this week, with a new obstacle to surmount. There was a glass storm door installed outside the main back door onto the screened-in porch. The regular door and the storm door each have installed a pet door at the same level. This was yesterday, she left today, and the cats haven't figured out how to push through both pet doors (frankly, I think the doors are so close together they're going to have to crawl under rather than just push through.) Can we have the cats accustomed to using two doors by the time she returns, or will they get stuck out on the porch in the heat? I can only handle one cat regularly, a second one I can give a few pats when his food bowl is down, the third cat I've only touched once in four years and it surprised both of us. So no picking up a cat and stuffing them through the door a few times to give the idea. (Dogs are easier to train. My pitbull Cinnamon figured out the garage door flap the first try and each time she came in I gave her a treat. She went in and out until she got all of the treats. Poppy sat in the yard unhappily, and that night she sat barking at the door until I saw Cinnamon walk out, walk around her, and back in the flap so Poppy could draft in behind her. It took Poppy four days to figure out the door. All dogs since then have seen others use it and had no problems.)

First world issues.