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Happy Mother’s Day

Todays the day that we celebrate our Mothers. I don’t know why we are only supposed to be celebrate Mothers one day a year. Probably because they are too busy working the rest of the time. What do you think?

Here is Sweetie, my Wife and Mother of my son, SuperPizzaBoy

Sweetie and SPB are inseparable. He is one loved child.

They run together

They certainly have lots of fun together

She loves to pull pranks on him

She even made him a SuperPizzaBoy costume one time

They are inseparable

Happy Mother’s Day Sweetie!!

Here is my Mother, Granny.

She has been gone for several years now. I miss her tremendously and think about her all the time. I can tell you that she would not appreciate a picture of her in her bathrobe on the world wide web, but hey this is one of my favorites. She was a great Mom, what can I say. She had that Irish twinkle in her eye all the time, loved children, especially her children, grandchildren, and great grand child. She loved to go trout fishing, and visit with her friends and family. She and I exchanged weekly letters for years. I’m not talking emails, I’m talking the real deal with stamps!

She grew up in the mountains and told her forest ranger husband, that she would go anywhere as long as she could see the mountains. From her resting place in Idaho you can see the back side of the Tetons in Wyoming.

Here she is with SuperPizzaBoy.

Happy Mother’s Day Everybody!!

Look Who is Blogging Now

The world’s greatest sister, Ellen, who lives in Colorado with the world’s greatest brother-in-law Irv has started her own blog Ellen’s Blog. Please go check it out. Her latest post is about her trip to Hawaii. As a bonus, BIL Irv shows off a geocache that he found. Hawaii and geocaches, it doesn’t get better than that unless they can throw in some Fat Tire Beer.

If we are nice to her she met share a few photos with us from her trip to Australia.

Ellen is a fellow Forest Service kid, except she is a lot smarter and better looking than I am. Now if I can just get brother Bob in Fresno blogging our lives will be a total open book.

Logan’s Lightning Thieves and Ready…Set…Run 2010

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Do you like to Run? Do you like to Walk? Do you like to help a good cause? The Autism Center of Tulsa is having their fourth annual Ready…Set…Run! 5K and Fun Run on May 8 at Hunter Park in Tulsa. The race is both a fund raiser for the Autism Center and a time for the Autism Community to get together.

You can enter the 5K or the fun run by clicking on the banner on the sidebar. If you can’t make it out that day and would like to donate as little as a dollar you can also do it by clicking on the banner. Or if you don’t feel like donating any money but want to leave a comment that is very much appreciated also. Or if you want to help volunteer on race day that would be great, we need lots of help that day and we can find you a job to do just let us know here. Either way, please join SuperPizzaBoy’s team. This year it is “Logan’s Lightning Thieves.”

If you know anybody in the northeast Oklahoma area who has a child with autism especially those who are newly diagnosed and are looking for information please refer them to the Autism Center of Tulsa. The Autism Center doesn’t provide treatment instead they are a clearinghouse of information for parents, doctors, and other health providers. They also have parent support groups, sponsor family fun nights and other events that are either free or low cost to the families. They have also done things like provide training to the Tulsa Police Department on how to deal with people with autism.

Here is some scenes from last year’s race.

The lineup for the Fun Run

SuperPizzaBoy and Sweetie. His team last year was named “Logan’s SuperPizzaPeople.” In addition to being a potential broadway star and video game champion SPB has a form of autism called Asperger’s Syndrome.

Come on out and have some fun with us this year.

My World – Road Trip to Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri

The family went on a spring break trip to Branson in southwest Missouri to go to the Silver Dollar City theme park. It’s only a few hours from Tulsa but we have never been. I’ve always kind of rolled my eyes at Branson because of the general chessiness of the whole “show” thing and I’m not a fan of amusement parks.

But hey, Sweetie rented us a cabin, we packed up and went and we had a great time, especially SuperPizzaBoy.

Sweetie booked us a great cabin complete with rocking chairs in the front and plumbing and a fireplace inside.

It was furnished very nicely.

The local food was good, especially the stuffed hamburgers at Chester’s.

It was an electronics free weekend so we played Mexican dominoes.

Ate some smores

and relaxed

At Silver Dollar City we did some rides.

(Not actually that one, but I liked the picture.)

We saw some corny skits

We saw Doc Gizmo do his science show

We checked out some shops

We clowned around a little bit

In Branson we saw a light show,

Drove down the strip and saw King Kong attacking the city

Oh, and of course, you will never guess, the whole point of the trip,

We went geocaching!! There were two in the park but they involved taking rides that had long lines. The Yogi’s avoid lines so I found two out on Tablerock Lake.

We saw some deer coming back from the caches.

So the last night we toasted to a good trip

And drove back home to Tulsa

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Tulsa Home and Garden Show and Happy Birthday Sis!!

Photographs from the Show, some correlate to the Home and Garden Bingo Game I’ve been playing.

There was some beer drinking going on, not a whole lot. Now I really like my malted beverages but this stuff looked, flat and warm. It looked to me like a bunch of people carrying their urine samples around. Not very appetizing.

I looked all over for a beauty queen. They used to be at the show. Perched on stools talking to people and handing out autographed stills. Not this year. I found me a cheerleader instead. She is very attractive; I bet she used to be a beauty queen.

Found me a Man Cave. Sweetie keeps saying she is going to fix one up for me. Well, I like hanging with her.

Lots of cooking demonstrations going on. Very expensive stuff.

The Master Gardeners had their bugs out. Gross!!! What if those things got loose. We could have a District 9 situation on our hands.

Lots and lots of manly mowing machines. Sweetie wouldn’t let me buy one. I thought I’d look good on one. Don’t you agree?

High dollar mops. Very expensive and very colorful also.

The one shot I couldn’t get was somebody in a hot tub. I mean how better else to demonstrate your product other than getting in one? Sweetie and I walked around at the end of my shift and I finally found somebody in a hot tub!

BINGO!! I win.

My last shift is today from 3 pm to 6 pm. Come by the Autism Center of Tulsa booth on “Yale Avenue” and say hello. I’ve already met two bloggers I have never met in person before. Driller of Driller’s Place came by and said hello as did Trail Zombie of ...miles to go before I sleep. It’s always great to meet bloggers that I’ve only known online.

And today is very special. It’s my Sister Ellen’s Birthday today! Happy Birthday Ellen!!!

I hope that you have a good one!

Buying a New Car round Two

Poor Sweetie hates car shopping. We went out about a month ago and test drove a few cars and talked to A few salesman. Then we started pondering and decided to get her another Toyota Highlander but then the whole safety issue blew up and even the Wall Street Journal was writing that Toyota has historically been slow to respond to safety defects so as we oilfield trash say, we P&A’d the Highlander. (Plugged and Abandoned to you genteel non-oilfield trash.)

So we’ve decided to go after the Honda Pilot, a somewhat larger mid-size SUV which we finalized when we were surfing through the Honda City website and got satisfied with the decision that we made.

So off we went to one of our local Honda Dealers. As we drove up we could see the salesman looking out the window at us and I remarked to Sweetie. “I wonder which one of the blood sucking maggots (“BSM”) we are going to get.”

Turns out, we didn’t get a BSM. We got a real nice young man (about my age in other words), Joe. Joe was cool. He showed the cars, explained the various trim lines, the various features, how stuff worked. He didn’t insinuate himself on us, didn’t ask if we were Sooner fans, blah blah blah, didn’t point us to the most expensive car on the lot. Hey in other words he is a professional salesman acting professionally.

We went on a test drive and liked it. He took our car and had his used car guys look at it while we wandered around the showroom. They had a beautiful old 1966 Honda sports car.

And then he presented us an offer without us having to wait a long time. We weren’t ready yet to buy, we always sleep on it. We have to check things out, do a gut check. It has got to feel right. I’m just that kind of guy. He was ok with that. He didn’t do the old “Well somebody else was looking at that one and they are coming back, blah blah blah.” He didn’t do any games at all. And he said, “I’m not one that is going to pestering you on the phone.” Wow.

We went home and checked out their offer online. Their offer is right in line with what the car is worth and their offer on the trade in is in line also.

OK, but I’m not here to get an average deal. I mean who else is buying cars in February? So I’ll be calling Joe today. With any luck at all Sweetie will have a new car soon!

Boys Night Out – Joe Momma’s Pizza

http://www.joemommas.com/

The Whole Family

I was checking out the blogs I follow this morning and came across this post by Jill of All Trades. She is showing a very pretty floral collage she made on piknik.com. I clicked on over there and it is interesting and very powerful but I got to thinking that I could do that with some software that I already have on my own computer. So I fired up Corel Media One and sure enough I could do it. So this is my first experimental collage.

Next one, I’ll get in a few more people.

Play Ball!!!

Last week the Yogi’s went to see our AA Tulsa Drillers play Midland at Driller’s Stadium at the County Fairgrounds. I love Driller’s Stadium but this is its last year. They are moving into a fancy new field in downtown Tulsa next year. I’m sure I’ll like it also, but I’m going to miss Driller’s Stadium

Sweetie and SuperPizzaBoy hate baseball but it was Fireworks Night and SPB loves the treats. So they indulge me on Fireworks nights. As you can tell they come well prepared. Sweetie brought her crackberry and son brought a Harry Potter book.

Sweetie trys to act interested, she asks every now and then if anybody has scored a touchdown or not. She does that even though I score the games and give her a running commentary about what the guy batting did last time he was up or what he did last time we are at the game. I think the whole scoring thing kind of embarrasses her. It is kind of nerdy but I find it fun. I have score books from when I lived in Houston back in the 80’s and had season tickets to the Astros and later when I lived in Dallas and went to Ranger’s games.

One think about the stadium I love is that with the everpresent Oklahoma south wind the outfield flag always looks wonderful, especially against a pretty eastern sky at sunset.

“Finally” said Sweetie and SPB, “the game is over!” time for some fireworks.

Do you like going to baseball games? Tell us about it!

Kansas Trip

Just got back from Kansas. I attended the Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association Meeting in Wichita. My employer had a booth, I talked to customers, competitors, and all sorts of other people. I also attended some really good talks and discussions.

The short story? Natural gas prices are going to stay down, oil prices are going to stay up. What does that mean? The producers are drilling more oil wells, less gas wells. Darn it! I’m a gas guy. Oh well.

The political take. They are resigned to Obama’s changed tax laws in regard to oil and gas drilling. What does it mean? Drilling wells will be less profitable, so less drilling will occur, so look out, increased oil imports are going to happen.

What about me? I had a great time. My sister Ellen was in town on business from Colorado. She is a geocacher (“eoripolyard” is her geocaching handle.) So guess what? We went geocaching. We found seven in downtown Wichita including a webcam cache. Sweetie helped us with that by remotely operating a webcam in Wichita, Kansas from Tulsa, Oklahoma. (You want to do that?, stay tuned to the end of this broadcast!)

So, who cares about our energy concerns. The big news is that I found 19 caches over three days of my trip, Woo hoo!! Lets have a party! I’m up to 829 total caches found. Below is a partial screenshot of my logs.

Thank you my fellow American taxpayers. Your spending billions of dollars on supersecret GPS satellite technology not only helps keeps our troops, sailors, and airmen safe, it allows me to find Tupperware containers in our city parks and highway rest stops!!! Isn’t this country great or what? Who cares about Obama taking our guns? I don’t want him scrambling the GPS signals again.

For those of you who are patient. Do you want to operate a web cam? Here is the link!

You can take control of this camera mounted high atop a building in downtown Wichita and move it left and right, up and down, and zoom in. Its fun during the day to track people as they walk. You can even take still images of what you see!! You can stalk people in downtown Wichita from anywhere on the planet!

To find out about webcam geocaches. Check out this link to the webcam cache my sister and I found using the same webcam.

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