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Skywatch Friday – Flowers and More

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Here is the Full Pink Moon from just a few days ago. It’s not pink. It has not ever really been pink. Now if you insist, I have the skillz and appz to make it pink.

From the Tulsa Botanic Garden. They had ultralife size origami, only with other materials and they called it florigami. It was cool, I’m guessing this is a giant begonia. Sorry if I am wrong, I often am.

And these are some big lillies.

And these are some tulips.

Tulips at the Health Zone

My gym is part of a hospital system that I think spends more on landscaping than they do on medical stuff (I’m kidding.) So these are the tulips from my gym. Does your gym have tulips? Maybe you need a cheaper gym. Maybe I do also.

Me leaving PT earlier this week cuz I hit 120 degrees on the knee bend test. That is a critical point in knee replacement physical therapy. Hurts like you know what but things are getting better quickly. Also, this week I was able to get on the stationary bike and turn the pedals. That was also painful but I loved it just the same.

From my latest money making venture. I’ve been saving the families aluminum cans for a long time. My wife gave me the ultimatum that they needed to be gone by the time book group starts or she’ll get rid of them for me. Hey she never asks me for a thing or ever gets mean or anything so we she makes a request I’m all over it. (most of the time). So I bagged them up and weighed them. 30 pounds!!

Drove 22 miles to a metals recycling place in north Tulsa. Got in line drove through the hole into the building. They threw my bags on scales and they suddenly weighed 17 pounds. Got paid in cash and I’m still trying figure out where my missing 13 pounds of cans went. To be fair, the scales are literally big enough to drive a car onto so I am not surprised that they are not true in the entire range. I’m not sure that I cleared a profit but hey I got to see a different part of Tulsa society. I sure lead a sheltered life is all I am going to say.

Went for a walk and found these small bluish-purply blooms and thought they were pretty cool. Just so you know, in Oklahoma, bluish-purply is word.

And late one day caught the American Flag flying.

I’m linking with the fine photobloggers at My Corner of the World and Skywatch Friday.

Skywatch Friday – Birthdays and Blooms

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Last Sunday our family celebrated a birthday, mine. A big milestone birthday, 70. Oops, how did that happen. I’m still here. Heather made me a great breakfast of blueberry pancakes, eggs, and bacon. It was great.

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And then we headed to the Tulsa Botanic Garden. Their tulips were peak, in my opinion. It was a little overcast which makes the colors pop!!

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All sorts of different colors and varieties.

As a bonus, they had a “florigami” exhibition going on. Florigami is like life sized origami. The works on display were incredible.

I loved this huge florigami tulip on top of the hill overlooking the gardens.

The tulips were everywhere. I have about twenty times as many photos of tulips as what will show up in this post and instagram. Oh well, I got them if I need them.

They had some beautiful wisteria also.

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And rotating florigami.

Alan Heather Logan botanic garden

I stole this photo from Heather’s facebook page.

And then we went to Eerie Abbey Ales in downtown Tulsa and had a beer.

And then the nearby La Tertulia restaurant for some decent New Mexico style Mexican food. Green chili enchiladas.

Home for birthday cake. This one lasted three days. I love sheetcake birthday cakes.

Can’t believe I’m 70. That is getting up there.

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Skywatch Friday – Staying Home or Going Out?

On our street looking west

I get lots of skywatch photos from my front and back yards, and that is great except…

The Overlook on Tulsa’s Turkey Mountain

I like getting out as well.

On our street looking east. I love this mackerel sky.

Another day, looking west again.

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We have no daffodils in our yard though. Gotta drive to them.

I always love a flag snapping in a strong, cold, spring breeze.

The school where I tutor a first grader is honoring all their teachers, administrators, cafeteria workers, janitors, tutors and everyone else who helps out.

The other day the knee was feeling strong so I fired up the electric mower and got the job done.

On another day the wife and I went to a big box store and bought some cushions for our patio furniture. The cushions were cool but these roosters take a better photo. Can you believe stores let you walk in and take pictures of their stuff? Some stores say no photos but I ignore those signs.

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The afternoon after I mowed, I decided to go take a hike at Turkey Mountain on a little bit more challenging trail. Only a mile long but the killer was about 300 feet of elevation change.

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Here is some switchbacks on the 300 ft climb.

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I loved the br

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You can tell I really liked the bridge since I took two photos of it.

Staying in or Going out? You need to do both!!

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Skywatch Friday – Back on my Feet

My knee is continuing to heal well. As soon as all the scabs drop their own I can back in the pool which will be great!!

I’ve transitioned from Home Health PT to Outpatient PT. So I am going to a place twice a week where I pay people to torture me. They give me homework to do so my therapy cat Lizzie checks it to make sure we are doing everything right. She’s a funny cat. Whenever I got on the bed to do something, she’s right up there with me. If you don’t have a therapy cat I suggest getting one.

I’ve started taking Heather’s cardio drumming classes again. I started out seated and now I can stand for half the class before I have to use the chair.

Last week I went on my first walk all by my lonesome. First I had to check out a fire we had in the greenbelt behind our house. Apparently a squirrel shorted out a transmission line, caught on fire and dropped into some brush which caught on fire. The fire department on was on it quickly fortunately.

I went on walking and heard this loud bird. I could see him but couldn’t figure out what it was so I fired up the iMerlin app on my phone.

Brown Thrasher it said. A new addition to my life list!

Found a big field of henbit. Years past I would attack in our yard but I’ve come to find out that it is an important source of food in the spring for pollinators. So now I let it be.

My little outing was a little less than a mile and left me exhausted, sore, and very happy. Time to get back to the house and put some ice on the leg. So yep, things are looking up.

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March – In like a Lion, out like a Lamb, or something like that

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That’s a saying about Oklahoma that I heard the whole time I have lived here, could apply to Texas as well where I lived before. March can be very mild and it can be bitterly cold. We’ve had both types of days this March.

The worst are the warm, dry, very windy days. That is when we get lots of grass fires. We get a lot of rain in northeast Oklahoma which means that at the end of winter we have all sorts of dead and dormant grass on the ground and it doesn’t take much to set it ablaze. Lots of huge acreage burned, almost 200 homes burned so far this spring.

And then we get the bitterly cold days. I hate those. March is such a heart breaker.

Heather, to the left, and Kodi, (the brown dot to the right of Heather, at a dog park.

Warm days we take our dog Kodi to the dog park. He has gone from being scared and hostile of other dogs to where he is now a social butterfly with both dogs and people. What changed? We don’t know but we love seeing it.

How is your March going so far?

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Skywatch Friday – March Outing

It’s been a couple weeks since my knee replacement surgery. I’m getting a little anxious for this healing thing to get a move on. I snuck outside yesterday and took a photo of our tree outside at the very beginning of the afternoon golden hour. I love spring. It is still cold, but the sun is up high, the wind is blowing, the sky is bright blue.

Today my wife Heather took me on a little outing. We went to see my brother who lives nearby. When I first to the hospital my sister drove down from Colorado and spent several days just checking up on him. She is back home now.

It sure felt nice getting outside.

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Nothing LIke Home!

My wife Heather drove me back from the hospital today. I went in Tuesday and as supposed to be discharged Wednesday. Didn’t work that way. I had complications, which were kind of complicated but they let me go today and boy am I glad. It’s a great hospital and took good care of me but man I was glad to get out of there.

February Days

Misty Day in the backyard

Brilliant Blue Sky and and even more Blue Audi (I keep wanting to write Bluer, but I am not sure that is a word.) I’m kind of in a holding pattern because of upcoming knee replacement.

The only bit of green on Tulsa RiverParks right now. Ironically, I am spending more time than ever in the gym now. The surgeon has exercises that he wants me to do to speed up the healing time afterwar the procedure. Plus, the encourage you continue what you were doing before.

Sharing a truffle latte with my wife after an exercise class. So yoga, weights, water classes, stationary bike, and a little bit of walking. Walking is what really hurts now.

A little bit of ice and snow Wednesday morning. So not too many adventures right but I am eager to get on with it and start recovery.

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