Browsing the blog archives for August, 2008
This weekend is the start of the county fair, which runs for 10 days at the Agricultural Center. It’s the second largest county fair held in the state and i always well attended and lots of fun for the whole family. Of course, the kids love the arcade and rides, but they also love to [...]
After driving across three states this past week, we got home safe and sound and tried to pick up from where we left off before the funeral. Hubby had a lot of work to catch up and, sadly, his assistant manager had a family emergency and needed to be off for several days, so that [...]
Here’s one last photo from the trip to Oklahoma that I wanted to share. Most of the gas stations sell more than gas, although it is almost impossible to find one that has an automatic car wash on the property. They just don’t waste money on washing cars out there. The gas stations have a [...]
Something I’d never seen before our trip to western Oklahoma: tire signs. Evidently the farmers take old tires and paint on the tires with big white letters “No Hunting” and then sling them over a fence post every hundred yards or so. Back home, we buy little rectangular white on black plastic signs from Wal-Mart [...]
On the way home we stopped at one of the clusters of new wind turbines so I could snap a couple pictures. There are miles of them running alongside a back road, and you can get right up next to them – close enough to hear the low whoosh whoosh sound of the blades as [...]