My niece finally realized she better get the damaged trees and limbs removed from her backyard before the city calls itself done picking up all the debris residents pile up on their curbs. So, she put out a call for help and Second Son and I, the most experienced with a chainsaw and cutting down [...]

Just a quick post to let everyone know our power was restored last night at 10:30pm! We have lights and heat!
Phone and Internet access will be restored on Wednesday, so I’m still hangin’ out at my favorite Barnes and Noble store ’til then. But that’s ok - they’ve got good coffee here.

Normally, pink is pretty.
But in the winter in Oklahoma, it’s the last thing you want to see on a weather map. Unless, of course, you’re a school age kid - then it depends on just how much pink you see.
On a weather map, pink means ice.
Pink is good because schools tend to close when the [...]

Aside from being culturally advanced, Oklahoma also has another unique characteristic: it’s volatile weather.
For example, we had a high of 80 degrees yesterday afternoon, and the temperature has done nothing but drop since. Our low tonight is predicted to be 28 degrees. We have many days during the winter when we wake up to [...]

Finally, after over a week of triple-digit temperatures, we had some rain last night. Today’s high is only in the 90’s (only…ha!) but it’s amazing the difference. I guess everything’s relative, because when the temps first hit the 90’s after the 2 months of rain we had, we all thought we were going to suffocate…but [...]