Thanksgiving

Great day on Thursday with Tara, John, Evie, Maggie and Oliver coming up from Texas to spend the day with us.  Megan, Nolan, Kelsey and Jeremy were at the house, too.  Debbie cooked a huge turkey as usual.  Green bean casserole, brocolli and rice casserole, stuffing, scalloped potatoes, cranberry fluff, huge dinner rolls, apple pie and pumpkin pie.  Yum.  Everyone enjoyed the meal.  Played outside with the donkeyballs game.  A little doody head, too.  Good times.

No volcano, but...

After the wild weather, earthquakes and near miss by an asteroid, we have yet to experience the volcano spewing fire and brimstone.  However, I have a feeling that if someone lit a match in the mens restroom there might be a flash fire.  I hope the guy who left that in there feels better.  whoa.

Deathstar killed the dinosaurs

Having dinner last nite with Debbie, Megan and Nolan.  A comment was made about the asteroid passing near the earth at 5:30 p.m. and that it must not have hit anything.  Don't remember exactly how the topic turned to the Deathstar, but another comment was made about the Deathstar being responsible for killing off all of the dinosaurs.  As it turns out, the person making the comment did not know what the Deathstar was and that it is a fictional space craft from the Star Wars movies.  The Deathstar was used to blow up an entire planet in the movie.  Pretty funny.

Earthquakes, thunderstorms and a tornado or two

Last nite, we had very strong thunderstorms.  Torrential rain.  Lots of lightning and thunder.  Several tornadoes in SW Oklahoma.  Flooding.  And, another earthquake.  4.7 magnitude, which is about 10 times less strong as the one on Saturday nite.  Megan called earlier this morning and said she heard about a sinkhole along I-40 east of OKC.  All we need is a volcano to erupt in Oklahoma.  We've had blizzards, drought, massive hail storms, flooding, earthquakes, tornadoes, sinkholes.  A volcano throwing fire and brimstone everywhere is next.  Strange goings on.

Huge asteroid, earthquakes, end of the world

Big-for-Oklahoma earthquake on Saturday nite.  By California or Japanese standards, it was nothing.  For Okies living in flimsy houses and people doing needle point for quilts, it was kinda spooky.  Someone wondered if it is the beginning of the end of the earth.  I dunno. 

I am not a religious fella, but I like one guy's belief that the earthquake was caused by God doing "the Gundy" after OSU's win over KSU. 

There is a big asteroid, the size of an aircraft carrier, that will pass between the Earth and the moon tomorrow evening.  If that hits the Earth, it would make a huge divot. 

For some OU fans, OSU being ranked #2 in the country and undefeated is a sure sign of the apocalypse. 

All I know is that if the end of the world is coming, I need enough warning and time to improve my flexibility so I can kiss my butt goodbye first.  Well, at least enough time for adequate procrastination on improving my flexibility. 

Be sure and wave at the asteroid as it passes between us and the moon.  Should happen around 5:30 p.m. central time.

Have a good day. 

College football

After the WONDERtorium, we went back to the house and ate a great lunch.  Debbie prepared barbeque brisket and cocktail weenies, vermicelli salad, baked beans, and mexican caviar.  My friend Jimmy and his son, Soren, arrived about 3:30.  After eating, we went to OSU and The Walk.  The Walk is where the football team and coaches walk across campus from the OSU hotel to the football stadium.  Several thousand fans line up along both sides of the street and cheer the team during the two block walk.  The band plays the OSU fight songs and Oklahoma!  Pistol Pete walks ahead of the team.  Lots of fun.

The gang at Boone Pickens Stadium waiting for the team to arrive.

GO POKES!!

Kelsey gets a higher vantage point to see the team arrive at the stadium.

Jimmy and Soren watching the team arrive.  Pistol Pete in the background had just finished leading the fans in an OSU cheer.

Head coach Mike Gundy

Soren and Jimmy

The gang heading to our seats after getting a sweatshirt for Soren and some blankets at Chris'.  The blankets came in handy later.  The wind was kinda cool.

Jimmy and Soren

Hee hee.

Deb, John, Tara, Megan, Nolan, Jeremy and Kelsey

hee hee

The OSU football team running onto the field.  Time to get Boone Pickens Stadium ROCKIN'!!!

We were part of a record attendance at an OSU football game. Just under 59,000 fans.

"Here comes, BULLET!!"  Bullet and the OSU spirit runners coming onto the field after an OSU touchdown.

Nailbiter.  The game was in doubt for OSU to the last second.  Literally.

Everyone appeared to have a great time.  Glad the Pokes won since Jimmy and Soren came from Colorado Springs to attend the game.  As we were leaving, Kelsey and Nolan felt the earthquake while we were still in the stadium.  Eleanor was at the house and said things were rattling around.  Sad that I missed it.  Enjoyed the game, the family and friends and looking forward to doing it again.

WONDERtorium

Fun day Saturday.  We all went to the new children's museum in Stillwater, the Oklahoma WONDERtorium.  Pretty cool place.  Everyone had a good time.

 Making paper airplanes was alot of fun. 

Trying to blow a ping pong ball out of a soda bottle. 

Blow across the top of the paper and the paper rises.  Example of how air blowing across an airplane wing creates the lift that makes the plane fly.  The air blowing across the top of the paper is moving faster than the air below.  The faster air creates a low pressure area compared to the air below the paper.  The paper rises into the lower pressure area.  Cool stuff.

Giant Spirograph.

This was alot of fun.  Tubes with pressurized air blowing through them.  Put lightweight balls and scarves in one end and the air blows them through the tubes toward an opening at the end of the tubes.  All of the kids loved this one!

How did Aunt Kelsey use these things?

Chillin' on the cool furniture created by the OSU architecture students

Gravity displays created by the OSU architecture students.

Making origami with three people from Kameoka, Japan.  Kameoka is Stillwater's sister city.  Students and citizens from both cities have shared their culture, and visitors, with each other for at least 25 years.

Too much excitement for Eleanor.

Maggie showing off the origami frogs she made.

Learning to use chopsticks.  The young lady in the red gown is from Kameoka.

Eleanor, Debbie and Tara relaxing on another piece of furniture created by the OSU architecture students.

Nolan playing.

Making the deal.