Styrofoam Greeting is a great Thanksgiving party idea! Are you looking for a unique Thanksgiving party idea — a fun way to welcome your guests to your autumn table? These spray-painted Styrofoam cups stuck in a chain link fence spell Happy Thanksgiving. What a fun Thanksgiving craft idea for...
Fall is what happens. Autumn is how you experience it. –Starbucks Tweet Weather Barn on the road to Jones Autumn Wildflowers; Possibly Weeds.This is Autumn Road, quite literally. It’s located about two miles west of I-35 off Britton Road in Eastern Oklahoma County....
There’s not been an autumn when so many yellow leaves have fallen and still so many green leaves were left on the trees. Winters can be pretty brutal in Oklahoma. We’ve been known to have horrible ice storms. Spring can be scary, too, with all the tornadoes. And, there’s been a...
August Reiger is still missing. As of July 28, 2021, August Reiger is still missing. Nixie Adams wrote about him in February 2021 in a post on Medium titled, “Valedictorian Disappears on Hike in Ecuador — The Mysterious Case of 18-Year-Old August Reiger.” “The brilliant poppy...
Future generations will not be able to enjoy Oklahoma City’s world famous Carlyle Motel sign on Route 66. It is gone. The owners sold it back in January and replaced it with this ugly backlit piece of junk. I noticed it today driving home from the kids’ soccer game on the west side of...
In the aftermath of the May 20, 2013, F5 tornado that killed 25 Oklahomans including seven children, a graffiti artist painted a tornado mural. It is located on an abandoned building on the outskirts of downtown Oklahoma City, SW 5th Street just west of Broadway. The entire thing was created using...
Yesterday, my daughter and I went to Target to buy some things. Stuff we might end up taking back. Except, now we can’t because I lost the receipt before I even got out of the parking lot. A gust of wind took hold of it and blew it out of one of the bags. I chased it across the parking lot,...
Housing Crisis During the Great Recession, we cashed in my part of our retirement savings to replace a collapsed sewer line. It was either that or live with sewage in our basement. As you can see, the choice easy. The repair cost us $13,000 in savings. That includes the penalties and taxes early...
A frame of reference is a set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how we approach, perceive or understand something. These New Balance Rainbow shoes for preschoolers provided a frame of reference for me today. I bought Bridgy a pair of these as soon as they hit the shelf back in...
“As the wind ripped the roof off one of the bathrooms, and debris rained down on the children, they remained calm, singing ‘You Are My Sunshine’…” Another Oklahoma Disaster. God Help Us. For the second time this year, I have to explain to my kids why a bunch of kids...
On Sunday, we piled in the Jeep and drove an hour north down the back roads of Logan County. For a few hours I escaped all the gray things that help me navigate my life. The highways, the boulevards the little white lies I tell myself. If I were the wind, I would have been a north gale blowing out...
Oklahoma City Marathon Pictures There was a strong showing for Boston today in the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. The marathon route goes right through our neighborhood so it was easy for me to get some nice shots. I can’t remember a better race, and I loved the OKC ♥ BOS T-shirts. Since...
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