Here in central OK we are all too aware of what mother nature can do in a matter of seconds.?ÿ I'd like to remind everyone of the losses other than fi...
Once on an our-of-town road job we encountered a trash pile.?ÿ It was evident the debris was from someone that cleaned a residence out hastily.?ÿ One ...
@holy-cow?ÿ I checked into a motel years ago that was quite the opposite.?ÿ It was a "our doodoo stinks bad and we're proud of it" kind of place.?ÿ I...
@bill93?ÿ I understand.?ÿ When my wife and I are traveling we're the same way.?ÿ I don't want anybody rootin' around in my room while I'm out.?ÿ I'm ...
I guess the most flagrant law breaking I ever saw at a motel was in Lawton, OK. near the south gates to the Fort Sill Army post.?ÿ The "maids" were al...
@holy-cow In Catoosa, OK, around 1992, one of the crew got friendly with the pretty girl that ran the bar at a local roadhouse.?ÿ She smuggled a coup...
A few years back I had a crew out in western OK for a week.?ÿ The oil boom was roaring.?ÿ Rooms were hard to find and you had to take what was availab...
@holy-cow?ÿ I guess the more things change the more they stay the same. From what I see around here it appears as though the Nations are evolving in...
Indigenous First Americans didn't settle here in central OK until later also.?ÿ This area was primarily Potawatomi and Creek.?ÿ Less than nomadic they...
Love, joy and death have been with us a long time eh? On a side note:?ÿ I have been party to a few searches for old cellars.?ÿ One in particular was ...
Loved all the old Looney Tunes cartoons. I have a soft spot in my heart for ol' Elmer.?ÿ Had a cousin on my mother's side that looked, acted and talk...
I was hoping this year that interest rates would climb out of the gutter.?ÿ If that happened I would have a better chance of living off the interest e...
@holy-cow?ÿ Years ago one of the local municipalities had several "drop" storm inlets which was merely a square junction box with no lid.?ÿ Being a s...
That's exactly the attitude all my buddies had also.?ÿ I tried to explain the nun's dominance required their participation and therein lay the key to ...
@flga-2-2?ÿ The Cash enclave where I was raised was nestled in an area that was close to a Catholic church and school.?ÿ Although I attended public s...
@holy-cow?ÿ Stadia was our friend, especially on topos.
At the highway department we had a steel flat-bottomed boat boat & motor with trailer that made shooting ponds and idle rivers or creeks a snap.?ÿ...
Reading and imagining people and scenes in my mind's eye is one of my greatest pleasures.?ÿ I cannot imagine (no pun intended) what if would be like i...
Interesting wordsmithing; "...in the practical location of the lines made at a time when the original monuments were presumably in existence."?ÿ?ÿ Th...
Funny. I was fortunate to have learned from a string of educators that were all born prior to 1900.?ÿ There was absolutely zero modern amenities in a...
