Once a week after work I get a kitchen pass to go run a few miles. I generally go to the trails on the Arkansas River. I took this picture halfway across the river on a converted railroad bridge looking toward downtown Tulsa.
The weather turned nice this week. It was cold but sunny and not windy. I’ll take that anytime. I took advantage of the weather to do some noon time geocaching. It is a great way to get a little sunshine in. The first day I went out to Sand Springs. The first cache was on the grounds of the local Walmart.
The second cache was pretty cool. It is an earthcache named The Sandy Spring. It is what gave Sand Springs its name. An earth cache typically doesn’t have a container to find. You usually have to measure something or do some research. The Sandy Spring’s web page talks about the history of the spring and how the Arkansas was too salty to drink. To log the cache one must guestimate the water flow from the cache and get a picture of themself to post.
I didn’t have anybody with me to take my picture and none of the women walking their dogs on the path nearby acted even the list bit friendly (I can tell you that unaccompanied males in office clothes in parks and trails at lunch time are social pariah’s) so I took my own picture with the timer on the camera. The result is below. Sweetie hasn’t seen it but if she did she would say “You are doing that thing with your mouth, again”
Want a little hint, don’t tell anybody ok? Its behind the little rocks to the right of the wooden post.
Not too far away I went to check on one of my own caches, Country Club, it had been reported missing and sure enough it had been “muggled.” If you read Harry Potter you know what muggles are. To geocachers muggles are those who are not in the know and take caches, not knowing what the are. Below is a picture of an abandoned house being renovated nearby. This used to be a fashionable area of Tulsa way back when but now it is blighted. I could tell you why but I would be getting off topic. Oh, you had a topic? you ask.
There was a restored mansion nearby that tried to make a go of it as B&B but it burned up in a fire. The rumor was that the fire was due to friction. Friction? Yep, that is what happens when you rub a big mortgage against an insurance policy.
I found a few other caches this week. My total is now up to 736 caches found. My what a lot of time and gasoline wasted you ask. I plead guilty your honor, on the basis of long term temporary insanity and acute OCD.
Cain’s Ballroom is a Tulsa music icon. In the 1930’s and 40’s Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys broadcasted live their Texas Swing music from Cain’s Ballroom almost nightly. Wills and his band is long gone by lots of music is still played at the Ballroom. Read all the details here.
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There are three levels of participation: 12, 25, or 50 books. They all have to be checked out from a library and they all have to be begun and finished in 2009.
I’m going for the 12 book level. I picked up my first book on Tuesday.
Here are my 12 books.
1. “Roads to Quoz” by William Least Heat-Moon – 1/20/2009
2. “Scarpetta” by Patricia Cornwell – 2/20/2009
3. “Runner” by Thomas Perry, due January 2009
4. “Murder in the Latin Quarter” by Cara Black, finished 5/2/2009.
5.”The Associate” by John Grisham , finished in April 2009.
6. “The Monster in the Box” by Ruth Rendell, finished November 2009.
7. “The Year of the Flood” by Margaret Atwood, finished November 2009.
8. “The Associate” by John Grisham
9. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” by Jeff Sharlet, 2009
10. “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown 2009
11. “War Dances” by Sherman Alexie 2009
12. “The Scarecrow” by Michael Connelly 2009
13. “Roadside Crosses” by Jeffery Deaver 2009
14. “Road Dogs” by Elmore Leonard 2009
15. “Parallel Play – Growing up with Undiagnosed Asperger’s” by Tim Page 2009
16. “Runner” by Thomas Perry 2009
17. “That Old Cape Magic” by Richard Russo 2009
18. “Rough Country” by John Sandford
20. “The Addict: One Patient, One Doctor, One Year” by Michael Stein
We finally got a decent sunset here one day and some clouds to photograph.
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I am so proud. Kathy at Oklahoma Booklady has given me the “Great Buddy Award.” I appreciate it very much. If you haven’t aleady check out her site. It is on my blogroll so if she is posting I’m reading and she never disappoints me.
As part of this award I get to pass it on. I have given this much thought and I’ve decided to award the following bloggers:
Baloney of That’s Baloney – Baloney is the one who inspired me to think about blogging so if you want to blame somebody for me polluting the blogoshere talk to her. She is to blame. She has a great sense of humor and her blog can be the funniest I’ve ever read but she has an amazing talent to communicate deep emotion, caring, and feeling on many subjects especially her two sons. So she can make me laugh and make me cry. I think of her blog as a blogging ministry. Plus for many months I think she, Sweetie, and my sister were the only readers I had, I think.
Dawn of Dawn’s Diversions – Dawn is like the friendliest and most expressive blogger on the internet. She just popped onto my blog one day to say hi and I’ve been following her ever since. I love the design of her blog and her profile picture is the best I’ve ever seen. Plus how many other women will put their age right there for everybody to see? She is very generous in her comments and also has a wonderful sense of humor. Also, her photographs show a lot of talent and skill. The sense of community that she has created with her blog is a great example for all of us. She is even organizing a physical get together for all her Oklahoma readers. (All except for one that is.)
As honored Awardees they both get to pass the award on to others of their choosing.
If you live in Tulsa County and you like to read and get free stuff then head over to your local library and get started with the 2009 Adult Reading Program. You pick up an enrollment card, read 6 books by the end of March, turn in the card, and get a book bag! You can enroll online if you want. Check out the details here.
Afterwards head over to Coney Island Hot Dogs and get the Three Coney Special. Three dogs, with cheese, onion, and chili if you wish and a soft drink for $4.70, including tax. Bring your own nitroglycerin pills.
Three coneys, with chili, onions, and cheese, with hot sauce and chili powder for an extra kick.
They are good but really, really, bad for you. You want to know the secret of eating healthy? Uh? I’ll tell you, If it tastes good, spit it out. You’ll live to be a 100! But you won’t enjoy it.
I’m doubling up on my Zocor tonight.
It is asking a lot of a book to be a guide for life for somebody with a disability and I’m not sure this book is it. I think the story of AS changes quickly and I’m not sure that books are the best way to learn. That said, I rate the this book as a 3 stars out of 4 for helping this Dad understand what my son may be in for as he continues to grow up.
I decided to feature another art deco building in Tulsa. Below is the Oklahoma Natural Gas Building constructed in 1928. It was the first art deco building in downtown Tulsa and led to many others. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and you can read all the details here.Find more My World Tuesday entries here.
