The sun is still shining in Oklahoma.

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The sun is shining again in Oklahoma!

Indulge me, please, one more shot from my office window.

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I love Skywatch Friday, the participants are so talented and the commenters are so nice and encouraging. The whole experience has been very uplifting and I never go anywhere without looking at the sky all the time. Skywatch is really a bright spot in cyber space. Just think, without Al Gore we wouldn’t have this. Thanks Al, really.

Well, Tulsa has been pretty drab lately. I have been trying like crazy to get a good skywatch photograph but mother nature hasn’t been there for me. So I decided to spice things up a little bit with the first (to my knowledge) XX Skywatch Photograph. So brace yourselves, here goes, ready …

Please don’t think less of me.

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That Old Cape Magic is about Jack Griffin and his parents, his wife, Joy, and her parents. It is about what happens when you don’t live your own life by reacting to your parents life. It is also about choosing to be happy or unhappy.

Jack Griffin is one tortured soul. His parents were ivy league academic snobs, who couldn’t get jobs in the ivy league. He married a woman, Joy, who Jack’s mother dismisses because she hadn’t done any “graduate work.” Jack cannot decide if he wants to continue his present academic gig or return to Hollywood to write scripts for cheap made for TV movies.

This book is about how he tries to resolve these issues in his life. This book isn’t comic like Nobody’s Fool or Straight Man but I liked it. I rate it 2.5 stars out of 4, which is good.

Hey, you want to know how to scare me?

Pull a gun on me. Nope, I’ve read enough detective novels over the years that I know how to handle that pretty easily.

Global warming? Nope, looking forward to the end of cold winters.

Obama taking Sarah’s babies away? Nope, the Democrats are going to get killed in the mid term elections. Besides, I suspect that she has more weapons than the Alaskan National Guard.

Six Flags, – Well you are getting close.

You want a sure way to scare me half to death and induce an anxiety attack. Pull into a drive through and ask me to do the ordering for everybody.

Or worse, make me order at Sonic.
There are two problems.

One, I can only remember one thing at a time. So if some people want cheeseburgers, others hot dogs, and others chicken nuggets. I’m lost. Further if this person wants it plain, the other no ketchup, and on and on. There is no way. Forget the drinks!

Second, the person on the speaker cannot understand me, and I cannot understand them. Try as as I might, I try to talk louder, slower, whatever they cannot make me out. Then when they recite the order back, I have no idea what they are saying. I can hear them find. I just cannot make out words of what they are saying. AAAAAAH. Help.

One of these days I want to pull this stunt.

11 See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.
12 Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.

Song of Solomon 2:11-12 (NIV)

Wow, Mothers Day is almost over. So I better get busy. I didn’t have a post pre-done. Maybe next year – not this.

Sweetie and I were exhausted yesterday and we slept in. Shh!! don’t tell the pastor but we didn’t make the service. Sweetie is teaching 4 year olds this month in Sunday School and I am her assistant. Hey, and I thought the draft is over, some 35 years ago. Nope, it is alive and well at our house. I even know my lottery number. It is 1. (I know that if you are not a male at least as old as I am you don’t know what I’m referring to, that is too bad.)

Anyway, we went and had only 10 kids this morning. Whew, we also had two teeenage assistants who had their act together, double whew. I had my camera my of course I didn’t take any pictures of the kids. I’m not sure their parents would appreciate it if the Mother-in-Law’s second cousin Ethel in Waynoka called to tell them that they saw little Francesca on the internet! Also, there is too much going on to take pictures.

After we got them herded back from big group I did take a picture of their coloring project. We did another little project that was cool, we painted the kids hands then made a hand print. We had blue paint and red paint. We found out with the first two kids that the blue washed off, the red didn’t. We switched to all blue. But there is one cute little girl somewhere out there in Tulsa that is going to spend a few day with a bright red hand.

After church which took quite a while because some of the parents don’t come pick up their kids until 12:30 (Hellooooooo, come pick up your kids!!!! They are cute and adorable but they are yours!!! Don’t be pulling this crap during football season!) We grabbed a bite to eat, went home, changed, grabbed the dogs and went to a local park for some walking.

SuperPizzaBoy had his triton which is a strange cool little rear wheel steered tricycle. He can really make it go. We were out there for an hour so we worked up an appetite.

So, we made a frozen yogurt run at Freshberrys. A local outfit that offers fruit toppings. I had chocolate yogurt with kiwi fruit, blueberries, and raspberrys. Sweetie and SPB got into a tickling contest. I’m not sure who won but they both had a lot of fun.

Afterward, we hung out at the house a little bit and then went and grabbed Nana to go out to, guess what? Eat Again! (How did you know?)

SPB is vowing revenge!

The Yogi family went to Seaworld a couple months ago. They were open for Spring Break. There was hardly anybody there! So no long lines. They have water rides now. So Sweetie and SuperPizzaBoy went riding, I held the purse and the drinks and took pictures.

SPB was up for doing it again.

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The Philcade Building is at the corner of 5th and Boston in downtown Tulsa. It was built by Tulsa Oilman Waite Phillips (brother to Phillip’s 66 founder Frank Phillips). Construction started in 1929 and finished in 1931. It was designed by Leon B. Senter of the Tulsa architectual firm Smith and Senter.

It seems that the Philtower building across the street gets most of the recognition but I prefer the Philcade building because of the elegant arcades on the first floor. The first two floors were built as retail space.
The first floor is very attractive from the street level and at one time there were many retail stores. The storefronts were converted to office space but are slowly being reconverted back to shops as Tulsa downtown seems to be coming back with all devlelopment and construction going on.

To me the detailing is the key to art deco and the exterior detailing in terra cotta does not disappoint.

The interior is stunning. I worked in downtown Tulsa for nearly 16 years before I first walked in. There is lots of gold leaf and the owners of the building keep it in immaculate condition. They will also let you wander around the first floor, look, and take pictures as much as you please, ” please feel free” a security guard told me.

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