It's been a pretty busy time with all the volunteer work, fund raisers and just plain fun.
One of my little groups is busy documenting all the historic buildings in Lawton. Yes, we might be younger than some towns but for us statehood was a pretty big deal. Lovely Victorian homes.
Well, where do I start.
Okay , the fun stuff. Sunday was a roller derby match. I again worked security and ran the door.
Part of my staff.
But the event was the Day of the Living Derby. I just knew that zombies would arrive. And I was not wrong. My former friend and in fact they one that cut my hair off a month ago for the Locks for Love program went for my neck.
Well, we are still friends but I stamped her really hard with our logo.
But I had to go talk some strategy with Approbitie and my other friend. 
And this was my boss for the night. Don't you just hate that?
Okay so now we face the rest of the week.
My friend and I went out on another hunt to document in photographs some of our history. We went to the Comanche Reformed Church. A tent in 1905 but they somehow had a bell built by the Meneely Bell Company in 1906. From a tent, to a wood structure to the current building that Tammie (my friend) is standing by.
That were having an Indian Taco day the day we stopped by. The fry bread is to die for by the way. The lovely lady who greeted us had been baptized in the church and remembered the tent church until now. She told us of a story when a group tried to steal the bell with a horse drawn wagon and her and al the women chasing them and getting it back.
Dang. I'm already losing my thoughts. Oh well. It's been a great week so far.
The city banned all smoking in city parks last week. Tammie and I rolled and smoked one this morning in a park. Rock the Casbah.
Retirement is hard but someone has to put up with it.
"Retirement is hard but someone has to put up with it."
I can relate to that.
The Meneely company
made very good surveying instruments the first half of the 1800's. Got out of surveying stuff about 1850 and went on to other endeavors - including bells.
I'm going off the grid for a bit my friends. Time to shut down the electrons and just ride on out into the country. Bedroll, monkey pricks and no real place to be.
I want to go, take me with ya Deral!
"Tammie and I rolled and smoked one this morning in a park."
Deral,(an apparent chic magnet)
Ya might be retired from surveying, but obviously ya ain't retired from life!
Have a great week! 🙂
The Meneely company
They made a lot of bells for places in Lawton. The bell is also stamped Troy, N.Y. and it appears Meneely made them from 1826-1952.
The bell at our police station which used to ring to have a policeman report to the station to be dispatched on a call was made by the C.S. Bell Company in Ohio. They started making them in 1875. Charles was experimenting with different combinations of alloys and drop a forged piece on the floor and heard the tone that would put him into the bell business. Many ships, churchs and others have bells from both of those companies.
