We just got back from the San Diego, California area for our summer vacation. Of course we spent a day at their wonderful zoo. A highlight was the panda exhibit.
Check out Camera Critters for other photographs of animals.
Weekend Reflections – San Diego’s Balboa Park
Skywatch – Carlsbad California State Park #1
Check Skywatch Friday for views of the sky from all over the world.
Geocaching Kokopelli Series
Don’t tell Sweetie but our next trip is to go find these caches in southwest Utah. I want it to be a surprise!
She would really like to go to Hawaii on our next vacation but don’t you think this would be more fun?
Geocaching Picnik in the Heat
Last weekend was HOT and HUMID. I went to see my favorite MIL Nana and check into why her swimming pool filter wasn’t working. I finally figured it out and got it fixed, grabbed a few of her cookies that were right out of the oven and then hurried on home to help Sweetie clean house went to find a few geocaches (don’t tell Sweetie, OK).
There were four of them scattered down a trail along a turnpike. Have I mentioned that it was hot?
(I subscribe to Picnik.com now and I just love playing with it. I know that over processing photos can be annoying and I promise to be more subtle in the future but let me have my fun now, please.)
I found four caches in all, here are a couple of them.
Four caches was enough. I was cooked.
By the time this is posted the Yogi’s will be headed for cooler climes. Hopefully I’ll have more to write about than heat and geocaches when I get back.
“The Sorcer’s Apprentice”
It’s HOT in Oklahoma these days. We decided to beat the heat this weekend by going to the movies.
We were chilling. We got there early and got the special footrest seats.
Can you guess whose feet belongs to who?
We went to see The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. It stars Nicholas Cage in what is for him a restrained performance, which means that he is over the top.
I could tell you what the movie is about but who cares. It is about saving the world from ultimate evil via a reluctant hero who has to learn what to do and at the same time get the girl. What else, oh, yeah, here is the girl, Becky:
Becky is very sweet, I told SuperPizzaBoy that he should be looking for sweet girls like Becky. I love the name if nothing else. He said that he is not ready. I’m glad to hear to hear that son.
Anyway, a kids movie that the parents can like. It has action, romance, wonderful special effects, great fighting scenes, dragons, special powers, and they keep the language cleaned up (Thanks Disney!)
I give it four stars out of four. Go see it!
Rascal Flatts – “Nothing Like This” Tour with Kellie Pickler, Natural Gas People, and Introducing “BOK Bingo”
Friday night Sweetie and I left SuperPizzaBoy in the capable hands of Anna the baby sitter and off we went to see Rascall Flatts in concert at the BOK Center in Tulsa. I am not much of a Rascal Flatts fan but I got free tickets from my employer, so off we went.
One of the openers was Kellie Pickler. Let me tell you something, she can sing. We had seen her before but I was really impressed with her this time. She really has a great voice.
Then came the guys of Rascal Flatts.
Left to right, Joe Don Rooney (from Picher, Oklahoma), Gary LeVox, and Jay Demarcus. Of course, I kept asking which one was Rascall Flats until somebody clued me in.
They put on a great show. The band was great, the singing was wonderful, but even more than that they really connected with their audience. They’ve made fans out of Sweetie and I. We’ll be looking for our first Rascall Flat’s cd. Here is a review of the show from the Tulsa World.
I guess that it was a night for the Oklahoma natural gas industry also.
I spotted Susan and Sonja in the audience. Former coworkers and dear friends. Except they’ll kill me now.
Also, former coworker and fellow geocacher David, looking right at us.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot Sweetie and me.
You know I just can’t get this “stick the camera out and take the picture of us” right. I need to work on it.
Hey, I’m going to start a new game. Its called “BOK Bingo.” It’s kind of like Walmart Bingo only geared toward concerts. I’m trying to come up with squares now.
Lets see, you have “picture taking”, “giant cans of crappy bar”, “cowboy hats”, “short dresses with cowboy boots”, and “leg tattoos”. Anybody else have any other categories that you want to submit?
The concert is great, I give it four stars out of four. Go see it if you can, play some BOK Bingo!
Mount Yogi Observatory – Latest Research and Findings
Our Astronomers have been working overtime.
We had this to report:
2 Praise him, all his angels,
praise him, all his heavenly hosts.
3 Praise him, sun and moon,
praise him, all you shining stars.
4 Praise him, you highest heavens
and you waters above the skies.
Psalm 148:2-4 (NIV)
Biblegateway.com
Check out My Great Aunt B’s site for other pairings of pics and verse.
Geocaching 101
(Updated 12-12-2023)
I have been asked to explain what geocaching is and how to do it. Geocaching.com has this great little short video that explains the basics of what it is and how to get started. It does a lot better job explaining it than I can.
Be careful, it can turn into an obsession.
There has even been a movie made about geocaching. Its called Splinterheads and here is a trailer.
You need at a minimum two things to go geocaching. First is a free membership at geocaching.com, second is a GPS receiver or a smart phone to download the geocaching app. Base models of GPS’s cost less than $100 new. Check your local Walmart, Academy or other sporting goods store, Amazon, and I’ve bought several at huge discounts on ebay. Know though that almost everybody uses a smartphone these days.
If you live close to Tulsa and want to go find a few let me know and we can meet up. There are well over a thousand caches in the city we’ll go see if we can find some.
Weekend Reflections – Pepsi Lake on Turkey Mountain
I’ve been running and exploring the trails on Turkey Mountain after work. There is a ridiculously fabulous complex network of trails and just a few of them are marked, there are very few people there, and so I’m lost half the time but I love the feeling of not knowing exactly where I am.
This was near my turnaround point, you can see the sun is getting kind of low. It was almost pitch black by the time I got back to my car.
Check out Weekend Reflections for other mirrored surfaces from all over.
Everybody have a great weekend.