Gameday Saturday

This Saturday is gonna be fun.  Tara and John are coming to Stillwater.  Tara, Megan and Kelsey are going to see Reba on Friday night in Tulsa.  On Saturday, we are all going (ten of us) to the OSU game to see them play Kansas State.  My high school friend, Jimmy, and his son, Soren, are travelling from Colorado Springs to attend the game with us.  Hoping the weather is nice enough to cook out.  I'm ready for some tailgating.  Who's with me?

Miscellaneous

For those of you chillin' in the snow storm in the northeast:

Anyone really want to get on one of these and ride down?  Or up?

I am a little fuzzy sometimes on identifying veggies, but I am fairly certain onions don't look like that.

Not sure what the message is supposed to be, but I bet it is on there somewhere.

Have fun and be safe while you trick or treat.

Crazy stuff

Walking passed the mental hospital the other day, a woman heard people on the other side of the privacy fence chanting, "13!  13!  13!" 


The fence was too high to see over.  Walking along the fence, she found a gap between two boards and put her eye close to the gap to see what was happening on the other side.


Suddenly, someone poked her in the eye.


The people on the other side started chanting, "14!  14! 14!"

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A doctor at an insane asylum decided to take his patients to a baseball game.

For weeks in advance, he coached his patients to respond to his commands.

When the day of the game arrived, everything seemed to be going well.  As the National Anthem started... the doctor yelled, "Up Nuts" and the patients complied by standing up.

After the anthem ...he yelled, "Down Nuts".  And they all sat back down in their seats.

After a home run was hit, the doctor yelled, "Cheer Nuts".  They all broke out into applause and cheered.

When the umpire made a particularly bad call against the star of the home team, the Doctor yelled, "Booooo Nuts!!!" and they all started booing and cat calling.

Thinking things were going very well.  The doctor decided to go get a beer and a hot dog, leaving his assistant in charge.

When he returned, there was a riot in progress.  Finding his assistant, the doctor asked," What in the world happened? "

The assistant replied, "Well, everything was going just fine till a vendor passed by and yelled PEANUTS!"

Trampoline

I remember someone, a kid in junior high, having a trampoline and going to his house to jump around on it.  I don't remember doing anything like this, though.  whoa.

Crazy trampoline skills

Speaking of celestial objects striking a planet

Found this article about Uranus and how it might have been hit by two separate, Earth-sized objects that caused the planet to tilt with its axis pointing toward the sun.  Nerdy but interesting stuff.  Did 2 giant collisions turn Uranus on its side?

Comet almost hit earth

Astronomers believe a comet narrowly missed hitting earth in 1883.  Kinda frightening but interesting at the same time. Two asteroids passed very near earth recently. Not close enough to hit our planet, but close enough that in astronomical terms it was a very near miss. A few thousand miles.  This kind of stuff fascinates me because if you look up at the moon, you can see craters of varying sizes.  The craters are the result of asteroids or something striking the surface of the moon.  If the moon has that many craters, how many similar objects have struck the Earth?  Most burn up in the atmosphere as falling stars, but some do not burn up completely.  Meteor fragments are found all over the world.  There is a giant crater in Arizona.  Some scientists believe the Gulf of Mexico is a giant crater resulting from the meteor that struck the earth millions of years ago and might be the impact site of the meteor that killed all of the dinosaurs.  Some doomsday people believe a meteor striking the Earth is why the Mayan calender ends in 2012.  One thing to consider:  outer space is vast.  The chance of one celestial object striking another is very slim.  But it has obviously happened in the past. 

I was reading the latest edition of Astronomy magazine last night.  One article was titled:  View Uranus with your naked eye.  My first thought was:  I ain't that flexible. 

Have a good one.

Grinding the Crack

After you watch this video, you will understand why the video is called "Grinding the Crack".  It is what the dude has to do after he pooped his pants when he swooped past the balloons. 

Jeff Corliss "Grinding the Crack"

Landscapes

Cool video.

Landscapes by Dustin Farrell

Disney World

We went to Orlando a few years ago just before Oliver was born. Evie and Maggie got their photos taken with most of the Disney princesses.  I remember them as being beautiful and very nice to everyone. 

I sure don't remember them looking like this.  whoa.

Deer Carcass!!!

Debbie and I were travelling along highway 51 this morning on our way to work.  It was still dark.  I passed a car and as I was changing lanes there was a dead deer in the road right in front of the car.  No way to miss the damn thing so I straddled it.  Of course, the deer was too big to just drive over the carcass without the bottom of the car hitting anything.  We heard a couple of loud thumps as we passed over the carcass.  We stopped at a truck stop just before we got onto I-35.  I got out and looked to see if part of the car was hanging off.  All looked ok.  BUT!  We could smell burning deer hide.  Very strong smell of burning deer hide.  I did not look under the car at that point to see what was stuck to the car since I had no way to remove it anyway.  We drove to Edmond and stopped at the car wash next to Megan's apartment complex.  I looked under the car and saw deer fur hanging from the muffler.  I used the carwash sprayer to remove what turned out to be a fist sized piece of deer hide.  I washed off as much as I could but there is still something stuck to the exhaust pipe because we could still smell burning hide when we arrived at my office.  Nice way to start a Monday.  dang roadkill. 

Things we see on the road

A few weeks ago, Debbie and I saw an odd vehicle travelling down the street not far from her office.  Well, the vehicle really was not as odd as it was highly decorated in an odd way.  The travel trailer and pickup truck were decorated with just about as many sports objects as a person could somehow attach to the trailer and truck.  Debbie tried to take several photos, but it seemed that the driver noticed the camera and slowed down quickly.  Debbie managed to get a few good photos of the contraption.  As we passed the truck, she said the interior of the truck was crammed with other sports objects.  We have no idea where the guy was going or where he went after we saw him.

Over the last month or so, sunflowers have bloomed everywhere. It is almost like we are in Kansas.  I do not recall ever seeing so many sunflowers.  They are along the highways and city streets.  There are a few places along I-35 where the sunflowers are growing in the median.  Some of the sunflowers are several feet tall.  Along one of the streets where we travel between I-35 and Debbie's office, we pass under the railroad.  I took this photo of some sunflowers that are easily 10 feet tall.  They are kind of pretty in the early morning sunlight. 

Fun Saturday

Debbie and I got up early this morning and went to Ft. Smith to check out the antique stores in that area.  I always check Yahoo and see what shops are listed on the internet.  When we get to the area we are visiting, Debbie uses the GPS to find the stores.  Sometimes it works pretty well.  Other times, we end up on a wild goose chase.  A few times, the GPS has directed us through some residential areas looking for a business.  Sometimes, the business we are searching for no longer exists.  We had all of that today. 

We did not find as many shops in Ft. Smith as was listed on the internet.  We ate lunch and found one of the antique stores.  Debbie found a cook book.  We travelled around Ft. Smith looking for the shops using the GPS before giving up and going to Van Buren.  The shops we found in Van Buren were in an old historic area.  Most of the shops were closed for some reason.  I found a neat coffee mug in one of the shops that was open.  We went back to Ft. Smith and found one of the shops that was on the internet list.  It was in an old house that must have been really cool when people were living there.  There were rooms and little nooks and crannies all over the place with furniture and stuff.  Debbie went upstairs and I went down from the main level to an old enclosed porch.  I found two old trunks for $60 each.  Debbie and I see these all over the place, but for alot more money and not in as good condition.  We bought one for Megan, who wants to make a coffee table out of it somehow.  This one should work pretty well.

Van Buren, Arkansas.  At least, this is the part of Van Buren we saw.  Neat area with art shops, restaurants and antique stores.

An old Masonic Lodge.

Neat bank buildings.

This is the trunk we found in Ft. Smith.

This label is on one end of the trunk.

There was an air show going on in Ft. Smith.  Debbie tried to take photos of the planes flying around.  She finally got an airplane in a photo after getting mostly the smoke.  hee hee hee

We wanted to eat dinner in Tulsa.  We can search for restaurants using our GPS.  Debbie found a restaurant called the Green Onion and we decided to try it.  When we got there, it was out of business.  I guess I need to update the GPS.  LOL.

Debbie bought these necklaces about a month ago in OKC. 

Hope everyone else had a good Saturday, too.