Oklahoma Story

[sixdogsmom]

I just returned from a week spent in northwestern Oklahoma where it is dry, dry. They have had only 1/4 inch of rain in the last six weeks. The only thing outnumbering the dust devils are the seismic crews and republicans. Every inch of land all through that area is being thumped, tickled, and seismicly recorded so as not to miss a single possibility for further oil discovery and/or fracking opportunities. Helicopters hover overhead with dangling cables and large machines gathering information from all these seismic implants in the fields, looking like weird aliens from an old Sci Fi movie. Pretty interesting really until you try to go down a paved road and truck after truck pass with all kinds of grampus looking machinery, followed by pickup after pickup carrying the men who work on all this. Every lunch stand is packed with workers, and I saw several "roach coaches" set up beside the road doing a brisk business. Times for that area of Oklahoma are a-changing.

The scheduled basketball game with the famous sweet mans' granddaughter playing for the first time this year was cancelled due to an outbreak of Menengitis in the host clubs' athletic department. One game I am not sorry to have missed. So we spent the time watching the chickens chase grasshoppers and going garage saleing, and visited the junk shops in Enid yesterday. I found some nice things for my greenhouse venture in the spring, and some books and such for the kids. And of course books for me too.

Saturday we went to Red Lobster in Ok City and indulged in endless shrimp. Boy, did we ever. I was one stuffed lady when we left there. Then we went to Remington Park hoping to see a horse race, but the afternoon races are done for the season. So we visited the casino for awhile, where I came out forty dollars to the good. Hooray!

Nice trip and a nice visit, but I am happy to be back home. Got my outdoor fountains going, the plants watered and the birds fed. Welcome home to me! 

[Diane Amberg]

You sure did have a nice trip. I want to go to our Red Lobster too and do that same shrimp feast while it is still on .I found a four dollar off coupon to use also.
I'm interested in that oil activity going on. The powers that seem to be are trying to unhook us as fast as possible from mid eastern oil. We are also seeing many "clean" coal ads here too.
I'm glad to hear you came out ahead on your casino adventure. I've been able to do that once in awhile here, but we rarely go any longer.Atlantic City is failing and the big casinos are closing one after the other. We still have Dover Downs and Delaware Park, but they are attached to the two race tracks, car and horse.it wasn't so long ago that gaming was considered a sin here. How times have changed!