Hippotherapy Session
A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)
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Tulsa State Fair
I took a long lunch today and went to see the Tulsa State Fair. I can get through the Fair pretty quick. The only thing I like to see is critters and a few other things. I don’t give a flip about the crappy food. The big thing this year is Krispy Kreme doughnut hamburgers in addition to deep fried cheese cake. Blech. I don’t care about the midway, I don’t care about the home and garden exhibits, blech. Show me the critters and the 4H Exhibits.
The overwhelming school of choice of 4H is Oklahoma State University. Believe it or not, but about half of Oklahomans will be rooting for Texas during todays OU Texas Game. Yep, I’m not kidding. Sooner Fans and Cowboy Fans hate each other.
As a licensed professional Chemical Engineer I liked the 4H take on the periodic chart.
Oops, this is a critter post, on to the critters!
Is their any domesticated critter more dramatic than Longhorn Cattle?
Lots of other types of cattle also
Goats
Sheep
Bunnies
Camels
Dr. Seuss Critters
and Turkeys
Well, I had a meeting with the boss. Off to the office to help America solve her energy problems.
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
Last weekend the Yogi’s loaded up and went to see “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” in 3D.
The movies are based on the multi-volume “Guardians of Ga’Hoole” books written by Kathryn Lasky. SuperPizzaBoy has read all the books and he tells me that the movie covers the first three books. He also tells me that the books are wonderful and the movie follows the books faithfully.
I thought the movie was wonderful also. The animation is great and the movie was a totally satisfying experience. Some of the fighting scenes are intense so keep that in mind if you have younger kids.
I rate the movie four stars out of four.
Here is the movie site. Lots there, games and such. Here is the book site, lots there also. See the movie, buy the books.
Wild Skies over Oklahoma
Looking to the west from my office on the 17th floor.
Thursday Challenge – Compressor Station
Natural Gas Compressor Station near Greenfield, Oklahoma. Compressing natural gas from wells drilled in the Cana Woodford Shale Field in Canadian County. From here the gas is sent to a processing plant to remove water vapor, ethane, propane, butane, and natural gasoline. The gas is then suitable for domestic, commercial, and industrial uses. The recovered components are liquefied and sold to chemical plants and refineries.
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My Dog Pierre
When I pulled up in the parking lot of the Equestrian Facility where SuperPizzaBoy is taking his Hippotherapy Sessions my dog Pierre ran to greet me.
Pierre is one cool dog. Of course I had never seen this dog before in my life, but he knew that he was my dog and was ready to jump in old 666BOI and go home with me. Before you get your pup trained here, buy them toys or give them a cozy spot, you should have an attachment. We had it.
Because Pierre knew that he was my dog and he had never seen me before in his life.
Of course we couldn’t go home right then and there because we had to watch SPB in the arena.
Are you wondering what I’m talking about? Well let me tell you a story.
Way back when, just before the last of the dinosaurs died out, young Yogi and his family lived in the Ranger Station at Payson, Arizona. We lived in a government issue cinder block house. Here is Yogi with his siblings. (Isn’t Yogi’s sister cute as a button?)
About every two or three months on a Saturday morning when we were all still in bed, Dad would yell, “Here’s Pierre!” and we could hear these dog toenails click clacking down the government linoleum in our hall and run into the bedroom I shared with my brother and jump up onto our bed and just go crazy jumping and licking and barking. It was a magical joyous occasion when Pierre showed up.
Being the little kids that we were we never wondered why or how Pierre got to our house. We just knew that he was there for a little while and then he was gone.
So whenever I see a Basset Hound, I know what his name is and I know that he is mine. And he knows that his name is Pierre and he is mine.
But I have never taken him home.
Hippotherapy
SuperPizzaBoy is doing something new. Hippotherapy, defined in this article as:
“…using the horse as a treatment tool to accomplish therapeutic objectives such as improving balance, strength and motor coordination in providing autism teaching strategies to develop motor and other skills in students with autism. Unlike therapeutic riding, therapists do not focus on teaching riding skills…”
He is taking it at the Rogers State University “Bit by Bit” program. Read more about it here.
Last night was his third class and the only the first I attended. There were about five kids of varying age in the class. Each child had a horse and was attended to by two to four volunteers. The class was led by a therapist who had the kids do various exercises and maneuvers on their horses.
Let me just say, there were lots of smiles.
I’m a fan of Bit by Bit.
My World – Legoland
The family took a trip to Legoland and found ourselves in New York?
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Town and Country School,Tulsa
The following is a news report that aired recently about SuperPizzaBoy’s school here in Tulsa.
SPB has Asperger’s Syndrome a type of autism. The school almost literally saved SPB. He was not flourishing at Union Public Schools. His teachers labored mightily to help him as did the Special Education teachers. The Administration though was totally indifferent.
Anyway, he is a happy bright kid who loves learning and he loves the school where he is doing great. The school is expensive and we are not eligible for the scholarships discussed in the video but that is OK. I don’t know of a better use of our money than getting our child educated.
Today’s verse is from Proverbs 2:6
“The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.” (KJV)
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