Happy Birthday, Oliver!!! 

Love you bunches.

Nana and Opie.

We are still waiting to close on the house in Oklahoma City.  The loan is being processed.  The appraiser went to the house on Tuesday but we don't know what the house is valued by him yet.  Meeting the home inspector on Monday to have him check out the house.  Waiting is driving me crazy!!!

Found a few interesting photos on the www.

He brought back a good stick.

Hey, Debbie.  We need something to put in the front yard of the new house!

Not sure if the bubbles above the diver is air he breathed out

or when he pooped after seeing that shark

Cool.

More cool.

Where is this zoo that you can play tug of war with a tiger?

I dunno either.

Have a good Friday!

Sometimes, reading stuff on the www turns up some interesting information.

Mythical Ireland, The Hill of Tara

A couple of weeks ago I was stung on the neck and finger by wasps.  Destroyed the nest and a half dozen or so wasps on the back porch above the back door.  Last Sunday, I was stung on the ear by a wasp from a nest above the kitchen window.  Killed 18 wasps from that nest.  Later that day, I found two more nests and killed four or five more wasps.  Looked around the house for more nests and so far, I have not found any more nests.  I thought our wasp problem was bad until I found a story on the internet about a guy who had more than one huge nest under his deck.  This is crazy.

Rigged a device to drill a hole through the deck by putting it

through the window while he was inside the house

Drilling the hole.

Rigged up a way to spray the wasps from inside the house

Lots of dead wasps

One of the huge nests

Going through photos on my iPhone.  Alot of interesting vehicles on the road.  We try to take photos if we can.

Saw this truck near downtown OKC on my way to get Debbie after work. 

Look closely along the bottoms of the doors.

Old military ambulance

Several old cars travelling along Lakeview near the house.

Not sure what this car is, but it is cool.

If all goes as expected, we will be moving to OKC in by the end of August.

2600 Kingsley Ln, Oklahoma City, OK

Still searching for a house.  Last nite, we looked at an empty house.  The house is held by a trust, which makes us believe either the former homeowner is in a nursing home or deceased.  Debbie and the realtor were standing at the end of the hallway near the bedrooms talking.  I was standing in a doorway and felt something touch the back of my neck two different times.  Debbie felt something touch her leg.  Gotta wonder if it was a ghost.  That kind of stuff happens on Ghost Hunters all the time.  When I told Debbie and the realtor about something touching my neck, the realtor acted kind of freaked out and made a beeline for the front door.  hahaha.

This morning on the way to work, Debbie was using her iPhone to search for homes in the OKC area.  She was looking at photos of a house built in the mid 1930's.  There were orbs in all of the photos.  Sometimes there are a few spots on a camera lens that appear on a photo and look like an orb but the "orb" will always be in about the same location on each photo.  The orbs in these photos were in different locations, different sizes of orbs and one was really bright.  Almost like a light.  Kinda freaky.

Saw a nice house last nite that we are kind of interested in.  The only problem is there is not much storage space.  Looking at a couple of houses tonite. 

Hope everyone has a great day.

Our new condenser unit.  Sure is purty.  And it makes copious amounts of cool air!

Debbie and I went with Kelsey, Jeremy and his mother, Tonya, to Post Oak Lodge a few miles north of Sand Springs this morning to check it out as a location where Kelsey and Jeremy can hold their wedding and reception.  Very cool place.  Just after we got there, someone discovered a problem with their shoes.  ruh roh.

As we were getting ready this morning, Debbie asked me which one looked better with her clothes.  Somehow between then and when we left, she never changed one of the shoes.  We got a huge laugh out of it.  Debbie and I made a quick run to Wal Mart in Sand Springs and she bought a  matching pair of flip flops to wear this morning. 

Hope everyone had a safe 4th of July.  Debbie, Megan, Kelsey, Nolan and I went to an old restaurant in Bethany yesterday for lunch.  Ann's Chicken Fry has been in Bethany for decades.  It was along the old highway 66 route and has alot of cool memorabilia inside and out.  I ate a small chicken fried steak.  Man, can't do that again.  After changing my diet after Debbie and I started doing the online Weight Watchers plan, that chicken fried steak was waaay too much fried stuff.  My gall bladder did not like it at all.  I felt nauseous all afternoon.  Same thing a few days ago after I ate some tacos from Taco Mayo for the first time in several weeks.  I must be turning into a vegan.  Dang. 

Last nite was the first time in a long time that we did not go watch fireworks.  Laziness is taking over.  That and I worked all day so I can take Friday and Saturday off. 

Have a great day!

We talked to our realtor last nite and it is official that we are not going to get the house on Burlingame without increasing our offer significantly.  So, we are back on the house hunt.  Taking this week off and will likely start visiting homes again next week.  Kinda bummed but it is what it is.  The owner wants to make some money and that's ok.  Just not off of us.

Well, the weekend ended without knowing if we are going to get the house on Burlingame in OKC.  We made an offer on Friday, which was rejected late Saturday.  We increased the offer yesterday afternoon and that, too, was rejected.  Apparently the owner was transferred to another city by his employer.  That company agreed to buy the home from the seller if he could not sell it.  According to the owner's realtor, our last offer was less than what the relocation company agreed to pay.  Some research on Debbie's part helped us determine that our last offer is really about what the market price should be and the owner is asking too much.  Well, at least as far as we are concerned.  Our realtor said to sit back and wait a day or two to see if they decide to contact us.  If not, we start looking again. 

A few weeks ago I finished replacing the shutters on the house.  All of the old ones were made out of wood and not all were the same.  I replaced the wood shutters with vinyl ones.  $50 per window ordered online.  Look nice, if I do say so myself.  One thing I learned is that a hammer drill makes it go alot faster than a regular drill.  Well worth the $80 for a hammer drill.

Old shutters

New shutters

While I was working on the shutters, Debbie had a butterfly land on her hand.  It stayed there for several minutes.  It flew off and then came back to the front of the house.  Debbie put some fruit in a container and sat it on the ladder.  The butterfly stayed there for a long time apparently sucking up the fruit juices.  Pretty cool.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.  Can't believe it is July 1 already.