A quick post tonight to say I’m headed to bed and hoping I don’t wake up in Kansas in the morning. LOL We have tornado sirens going off as I type and here’s what we’re looking at on the radar: These are the kinds of storms Tornado Alley is famous for, because while the storm looks like it might be moving west to east, it’s not....

It’s been several weeks since my new windows were installed, but finally I have a picture for you here of the best feature of these windows: they OPEN! As I type this, 9 of the 12 windows in the house are wide open, and it’s a beautiful thing! This particular picture is the view from my desk. The kids’ computers are in front of me, one on either...

I always feel like I should be waiting for the “other shoe to drop” when we get so many days of gorgeous weather in a row this time of year. Tornado Alley is aptly named – trust me. We are enjoying our third day in a row of absolutely lovely weather, and tomorrow is forecasted to be more of the same. (Where’s that shoe?) Deciding I’d...

I don’t know about where you live, but we here in Tulsa have been having the craziest mix of weather I’ve seen in awhile. Example: Yesterday we topped out at 62 with lots of sunshine and pretty strong winds out of the south. Then, at about 6pm, a cold front pushed through, the temp dropped 20 degrees, and now this morning, it’s 28. This is the third...

Silhouette of what once was a huge pecan tree, decimated by ice and wind. Prima Donna Daughter hugging another broken pecan tree. She said it must have hurt when the branches broke like that. Notice how one of the limbs came down with such force it punctured the earth and is stuck there without any support. Freaky what Mother Nature and the laws of physics can do...

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 trees, were elected as the main labor crew. Here’s what we had to...

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 map turns pink like tonight’s has. Here at our house,...

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 the high for the day. Why? Well,...

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 now...