She’s moved out

My MIL, Nana, who is staying with us while she recuperates from a broken hip had a friend, Patty from southeast Oklahoma, visit her this weekend. Nana has a recently purchased house near to that she has moved her furniture into but has not moved herself in yet. She and Patty were going to stay the night in Nana’s new house during Patty’s visit.

Well that darn Nana, she got to thinking about it and announced she was going to go live in her new house. I mean why not, she’s almost all unpacked. So we loaded the stuff up she had at our house and moved it to her house. Took about 15 minutes. And then we decided to have a party. I grilled some buffalo steaks and Sweetie prepared the beverages.

Patty, Sweetie, and Nana out by the pool.

Martini anyone, anyone!

Chips and guacamole

SuperPizzaBoy and I watching “Run Silent, Run Deep” with Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster on Nana’s TV. Those old school navy movies with their bathtub special effects are great.

Nana still can’t drive for a while, but she is on the road to mending. She is very happy to get back into her own house.

Mother In Law Philosophy

Something Old

Something New – On Sale and Still Unwrapped

Still good advice.

I was told to never come back

Last night Sweetie and I attended a function at the Tulsa Country Club, a very swanky old school country club, courtesy some friends. We had a great time and enjoyed ourselves immensely and are very grateful for their generosity.

As much as I enjoyed myself I was a little nervous. You see, I had been to a party there before. A long time ago, even before Sweetie was a part of my life. It was before they had their existing club house. The party was in their old clubhouse. A very fine and distinguished building.

I won’t get into who I was with or what the function was because that doesn’t matter. What matters is that apparently things didn’t go well and I was told that I wasn’t welcome back.

The evening started out just fine. The building looked really elegant with all the late model cars parked in front. Nothing but top shelf here. Don’t be bringing your old junkers.

We had cocktails and then dinner. A photographer came around. Do you see how elegantly my companion and I were dressed. Relaxed and fun loving, that was me back in them days before I turned all serious and stiff like I am now.

I am not sure what happened next. There were lots of rumors, nothing ever proven, personally I think it was something I ate. All I know is that I woke up the next morning to some accusing stares and somebody thrust a newspaper in front of me with this picture and asked if I was happy with myself.

I have to admit that I had a really good time. But, I was told, “do not ever come back.”

And that is why I was nervous last night.

Skywatch Friday – From the Credit Union Parking Lot

I love Skywatch Friday but sometimes I don’t know what to post. I had some good possiblities but I was going home after a run Wednesday night and just had to duck into a credit union parking lot to take this picture.

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Duplicity with Julia Roberts

Sweetie and I went to see “Duplicity” last weekend. A movie starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owens. They play a pair of ex CIA Spies who have gone over to the private sector. They of course fall in love (I didn’t mean to spoil the movie for you!) but don’t quite trust each other. They work as industrial spies for two competing home products companies who CEO’s hate each other.

The movie is kind of a satirical comedy and I love Julia Roberts’ wry performance. She has really turned into a great actress, and she is looking better than ever! Clive did ok.

I found the movie almost impossible to follow. There are so many twists and turns. I would like to see it again. It is one of those movies that could have had several endings, and maybe did. I’m not sure that I liked the end they chose. But they kept me guessing.

I give the movie three stars our of four. The acting was good but the movie was almost impossible to follow.

The movie does have a great website though. Much better than average.

Sweetie and Earth Day

Sweetie gave me and SuperPizzaBoy (and everybody in SPB’s class) Earth Day Cookies today! Nobody else in the entire world would ever think to give us Earth Day Cookies.

Thanks Sweetie, I savored every crumb. You are special.

Watery Wednesday – A Sunday morning walk along the Arkansas River

Sunday morning walk on Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

South Side of the Jenks Pedestrian Bridge at dark thirty in the morning.

Started north. I’m a sucker for any kind of trail. This one is nice, asphalt and well lit, even at dark thirty.

Part of the woods between the trail and the river is eagle habitat. Stay out from November to the middle of March.

Went as far as the new Creek River Spirit Casino, open less than a month. Cost, reportedly about $195 million. 300,000 sqare feet of space. I’ve been watching them build this for a long time. Nope, I didn’t drop in a few quarters before I turned around.

It’s getting light, sun is coming up. Here is a picture of the eagle sanctuary. You can see the river through the trees.

I beg your indulgence here. My employer’s natural gas pipeline crossing the river. My crew at work buys a lot of the gas that goes through this thing from thousands of gas wells in western Oklahoma. This pipeline is ultimately connected to almost all the gas pipelines in the United States. If you live in North America and have a natural gas line to your your house, it is connected to this line.

An hour after I started, a picture of the north side of the Jenks Bridge.

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My World – A noon walk in downtown Tulsa

Monday at noon was the best day so far this Spring here in Tulsa, OK. So I put my hat on, hooked up my ipod, turned it to Miles Davis, grabbed my camera and went for a walk.

On the north side of downtown I came across this crane. I love big manly machinery. I hope that they keep it here a while. I think they are going to demolish a condemned bridge over the railroad tracks. I’ll have to come by periodically and make sure they are doing it right. Also, look at the blue sky. Like I said it was a gorgeous day to be out and about.

I am just a kid when it comes to trains. I love them all.

This is the BOK Tower, built in the mid 1970’s. If it looks familiar it may be because it was designed by Minuru Yamasaki and Associates who also designed the World Trade Center buildings. The BOK tower is 52 stories and 667 feet tall which is almost exactly one half the height of the WTC buildings (1362 feet and 1368 feet). Supposedly the BOK tower is the tallest building in the plains states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. (Wow! the plains states are world renown for their real tall buildings!!)

Sign inside the BOK tower. I’ve never been in a building where walking is not permitted. Beware, we Okies can be strict! I confess, I willfully walked through the Upper Level Lobby. Just try and find me!

Gotta go, I’m on the run from the walking police. Thanks for visiting.

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Rejuvenated Rear End

I’m still higher than a kite about my new license plate number 666BOI. I was so excited I decided to the truck repaired. You see about three years ago I got rear ended by a male nurse on the BA Expressway. (I know ha ha ha, har har har, you all are so darn funny, I’ve heard it all….) and my truck got damaged. I settled with his insurance company and got a check to fix it and never did.

In the meantime I got two cracks on the windshield, both of them eventually spread across the width of the glass.

Well, I can’t have the best license plate in the country be attached to a truck with a rear end that needed fixed. (Again, ha ha ha…. enough). So I took it in to get both the bumper and the windshield fixed.

Before,