{"id":15771,"date":"2025-11-27T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15771"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:43:50","slug":"thanksgiving-2025-skywatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=15771","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2025 Skywatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Things change fast this time of year. At the beginning of the month we had lots of fall color on the trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We had some rain and some wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now all the fall color is on the ground. I enjoy the bare trees though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I went geocaching on a two mile long trail in Osage County. I found ten geocaches. It was heavenly. Didn’t see anybody besides a few cows and a bunch of squirrels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of my wife’s family in western Oklahoma since this photo from out there. Eastern Oklahoma has lots of trees and western part of the state has big skies. I love both the east and the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wedenesday evening I saw what I called an auspicious sky. The whole sky was pink and gave everything on the ground an rosy pink glow. I loved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a small crew of three at our house for Thanksgiving this year. Just me, Heather and our son Logan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heather is cooking a delicious dinner. Still a lot of work but we appreciate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there is sadness this year. Bob my brother passed away last week. He had a debilitating illness for six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Navy vet through and through. And a huge runner. Over 50 marathons and over a 100 half marathons and countless 5K’s. He had huge physical toughness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When he wasn’t deployed, and after he retired, he would come to Tulsa for Thanksgiving and we would run together, go hiking, check out museums and such. He loved being active. He loved Thanksgiving also. We haven’t been able to do that for a long time but after he got sick my sister and I got him to Tulsa and I oversaw his care in various residences. He loved the activities that they had and then he discovered virtual runs. I paced out how many laps of in his residence were a 5K and then he would register and “run” them in his wheelchair and loved getting the medals. He was always happy with what he could do when he couldn’t do what he used to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We miss him. Definitely a happy sad today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m linking with Skywatch Friday<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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