Category Archives: Christmas

Tulsa Winterfest ’09 and Christmas Spirit and does Baloney have a Snuggie?

Big Secret in town. Tulsa is having a Winterfest in downtown Tulsa right next to the BOK center. No lie, go check it out here.

I had to go check this out. Its not a rumor, its true! They have a Christmas tree and an ice rink.  It was pretty lonely the day I was there. But I don’t think they counted on much happening during the workday anyway.

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Here is the ice rink.

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Hey who has the Christmas Spirit yet?

Hey SuperPizzaBoy!! You feeling it!!

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LJ? What about you?!
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Ginger, the Christmas Dog?

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Well, I’m into it!!

Yogi with Cowboys Hat

Lets leave all those grouchy ones and go look at some lights!

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Then lets watch “White Christmas” with Bing and the gang.

Lets go do a little shopping. Sometimes you find find out about your kids when you go shopping. Sometimes you find about your friends also. Sometimes … (you get the picture) For example, son SPB spent some time with his friend Michael. Michael’s mother is my friend Baloney. You remember her right? The Cheater.

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Well SPB and I were in his most hated store, Kohls, when we walked by the Snuggie counter. They are like a throw with arms made into them. Well, SuperPizzaBoy picks one up and says:

Baloney, what are exposing my child to??!! I mean besides sentences ending in prepositions?

What do you do to get in the Christmas Spirit? I mean for those who celebrate Christmas.

Elf Going Rogue

Well, I thought Christmas was going pretty well. I’ve strung lights, made cookies, bought Christmas gifts, gone to church, and put up the tree. True, maybe I missed the boat on a few things. Like I almost helped an old lady across the street but she was kind of slow and I was in a hurry and there wasn’t anything over there for her to go to anyway. But hey, nobody is perfect.

But look what I got recently.

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At first it was like, hey, that’s interesting. I wonder what’s in the bag? It is kind of suggestive, don’t you think? Red bag, and gold embroidered lettering. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to make this. You know they say good things come in small packages.

So I opened it up, and what?

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The dreaded lumps of coal.

So, I don’t know. Is Santa running ahead of schedule? Clearing all the bad boys off the list, because there are so many of us maybe. Or maybe he has to get rid of his coal because of the impending global warming  legislation coming up. Is Santa not green?

Or maybe the coal was a warning from a Rogue Elf? Maybe I need straighten my act up? I don’t know. Maybe the Rogue Elf is actually, The Ghost of Christmas Future? Oh, that’s not good. That doesn’t bode well.

I started to do my research. Who could this Rogue Elf be. After much exhausting surfing on the net and even more games of Facebook Bejewled Blitz trying to figure this out, bingo, I found the Rogue Elf. Her name is Baloney. She  has her own blog,  evil elf dot com. Check it out.

What do you think? Do I deserve lumps of coal or not? Am I not a nice guy? Is it too late or can I redeem myself?

Are you getting coal for Christmas? What did you do to deserve it? We want to know!

Gingerbread and Christmas Trees

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Time to make some gingerbread cookies! SuperPizzaBoy turns into SuperGingerBreadCookieBoy this time of year. Gramps is checking out the action. You know there is kind of a resemblance between pizza dough and gingerbread cookie dough. Kind of, I don’t think pizza sauce would work to well on the cookies though.

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You can tell the kid knows what he is doing.

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They look very pretty in the pan, but you know, the proof is in the eating.

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Now, the tree. We got a new high tech, pre-lighted, narrow model this year. But you still have to decorate it.

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Everything has to be placed with care.

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I hope that you are having half as much fun as we are!

Philbrook Museum of Art – Festival of the Trees

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My Father, Gramps flew in from Idaho yesterday for a little Thanksgiving visit. He is a pretty easy guy to havearound. He likes to go to museums and look at stuff so yesterday he and I went to the Philbrook Museum of Art. It is always a good time to go Philbrook but they have their Festival of the Trees going on right now so it is a doubly good time to go.

Above is Gramps with a Southwest theme. It not only has a Mexican style hat it has Ojo de Dios ornaments on the tree. Ojos were all the rage in New Mexico years ago when I lived there as a very young Yogi.

Check this out, a blue Boy Scout tree and a green “Glovely” tree (made out of work gloves)

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Here is a favorite tree. Made from cut up Christmas Story Books.

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Upstairs they had gingerbread houses. Absolutely gorgeous.

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Now let me clue you in on something about Christmas ok? Here is a little known secret about Christmas. Most people think that Christmas is on December 25. And, that is true to a certain extent, Christmas Day is December 25. But, there is a Christmas Season also that is associated with Christmas Day. Are you with me? Well here is the secret. The Christmas Season is over by December 15. In other words, all the little things that make Christmas fun is over by the middle of December. For example, if you want to see the Festival of the Trees at Philbrook you need to get your little butt down to Philbrook by December 13 because that is the last day! That is true of a lot of other Christmas Season stuff also. Get it done by the middle of December or you will miss out! All that is left is shopping, stress, and tears. Don’t come whining to me, because I’ll give you the big “Ayatollah So!”

While there at Philbrook we decided to check out their collection. Hey the Yogi’s are thrifty and we are going to squeeze the most we can out of our $7.50 entrance fee. You bet. Also, for their regular collection you can use your camera. No flashes though!

They have some really really good stuff.

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I’ve always loved this painting of an elegant socialite.

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A medieval painting of Baby Jesus with a Lamb

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Got to tell you though. You know why I love Tulsa? I’ll tell you why. Tulsan’s have built some great museums and stocked them with fine art but our wild cowboy, oilfield roughneck, outlaw, fun loving self always comes out. In the same gallery where one finds timeless and priceless medieval sacred art is a sculpture of an Art Deco Erte’ like naked flapper girl riding a fish.

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“Yee Haw”