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I haven’t posted anything in a while.  Seems that Facebook has taken over my extra time, or my life maybe.  Found a site in Facebook that I can upload pictures from my family’s days in Indonesia and have reconnected with a few friends from that time in my life.  It is so cool to find someone that you knew so many years ago and that they also are interested in where you are and what you are doing.  Sets up a whole new idea of a class reunion!

 The picture, by the way, is of a Python snake that the natives (Sakis) caught in the jungle and tied up to a tree.  Our school decided that warrented a field trip, so away we went.  We also went to jump on a dead elephant, went to see a cobra snake and a dead tiger.  Pretty cool for a bunch of 1st - 8th graders.  If you are on Facebook, and nowadays, who isn’t, go to this link and check ou the group.   http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=60868652074

Well, guess I had better finish up and get a little real work done. 

Til later

Jim

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I love playing the guitar.  I am not very good at it and I usually don’t play the whole song (as my kids can attest), but I still love it.

While looking for lyrics on the web, I ran across a site at www.chordie.com, and it is Great!  You can find a lot of different songs, from Country, Gospel to Rock.  I have been printing out Christmas Songs all evening.  You can do a lot of really helpful things with this site also.  You can change the “key”, so when you don’t like trying to play those chords you need six fingers for, you can change it to something maybe a little more to your liking.

You can also print out the songs, double spaced, with the chords above the words.  This is the only way I can even try to play most of the songs. 

Check it out when you get a minute.

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Well, the fuss is over.  OU whipped up on OSU today and there are a whole bunch of Sooner Fans that are real happy.  We must take some of the blame since I, at the hospital with my Dad in Grove and Kati, (The most awesome Paddle Girl in the bunch) weren’t there to Cheer and Paddle their team to a victory.

The picture is of Kati (bottom row, in the sunglasses, yeah I know, it was night time, but she’s a college student now) in her 3 seconds of Fame on ESPN at one of the home games where her, along with about 90 other crazy OSU fans camp out for days before the game to get front row seats for every home game.  They sit and slap wooden paddle on the wall in front of them in unison in an attempt to really bother the opposing team.  It’s been working quite well this year as OSU has had an outstanding season, but since they don’t travel to out of town games, OU, playing at home, had the upper hand.  Oh well, there is always next year, and Kati tell me that OSU is still getting to go to a Bowl Game, so good luck to them!

Now, back to Dad.  We spent Thanksgiving at Mom and Dads lake cabin as we do every year and had a very nice day with all the family gathered around.  Dad seemed to be getting tired pretty easy through the day, but we just thought it was all the work he had been doing the past couple of weeks.  (He put up a new wrought iron rail fence around the deck and has been raking leaves for weeks.)

But, about 5 o’clock Friday morning, mom woke us up and said that they had called 911 to have an ambulance come for Dad.  They came and we all followed them to Grove Hospital where it was determined that he had a pretty severe case of pnemonia.  They got him checked in and started on some antibiotics and some breathing treatments and today when we went back over, he was doing really well.  He had been sitting up, shaved, brushed his teeth and hair and had eaten a very good lunch.  Hopefully he will be able to get out Monday.  You must realize, he is 79 years old (or he needs to realize it) and he just does more than he should sometimes.  He is a tough though, and you can’t slow him down.  Hope I can be as active when I am his age.

Time to head to the sack.  Church tomorrow, then maybe try to get the Christmas Tree down and maybe some decorating done.

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My plan eariler in the month was to take off this Thanksgiving week, but with two muni bids popping up at the last minute, plans were changed.  I went in this morning and got both bids ready to go, gave one to Randy and I headed out to Siloam.  They emailed the request to me since they had sent it to the wrong mailing address, and told me the bid was at 2:30.  I got there earlier (very unusal for me) and decided to go ahead and drop off my bid.  The clerk asked if I was staying for the bid and I replied “yep” and would be back in about 45 minutes.  She said, “you better be back before that, the bid is at 2:00″.  Lucky me!

Got home in time to go bowling.  WOW, I am a really bad bowler.  I bowled like a 104 the first game and then finally sort of got it together and rolled a 140 something.  Oh well, at least it is just for fun.  There are 6 other Church Teams out there and we always have a great time kidding around and heckling each other.

Not planning on getting much work done tomorrow.  I hope to run in and take care of a few things and then knock off after lunch.  Kati will be home tomorrow evening and after she goes to get her hair done (color? Won’t know till she gets back after her appointment Wed morning), and then hope to head to the Cabin at the lake to help the folks get everything ready for Thanksgiving Dinner.

I did actually work some this weekend.  RJ and I installed his new pool cover that he bought from DF&D.  Gave him a really good deal, but I hadn’t installed a new cover in about 8 years, so figured with him helping, I could just do it for the practice!  Looked really good.  Gonna get a picture later and post it, just forgot to take my camera.

 Headed to sleep now.

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Okay, I think the warm days of summer are gone.  It is only supposed to be in the 50’s and 60’s the next week or so, in fact probably not even that warm some days.   I will miss getting the boat out.  One nice thing though about our “new” boat is that I have talked to other boat guys with outboards and the winterizing is much easier than on the i/o’s we have had in the past.  So, if a good weekend pops up, we may still go crusie around a bit.  We’ll see.

Kati ran across a median curb going back to Stillwater a couple of weeks ago, so I have been busy trying to find some parts (and time) to fix it.  When she hit the curb, it knocked a hole in both driver side tires.  Luckily, one was under road hazard warranty, but still had to pay to replace one and also the front wheel had to be repaired.  They are aluminum alloy wheels, and it knocked a pretty good chunk out, so Tate Boys Tires in Bville pointed me to a local welder that was able to build up the wheel, grind it back down and looks fine.

I had Joe Wait Motors in Vinita order me a new airbag and put it in last night.  Debbie sewed up the side of the seat this afternoon and it looks pretty good.  I figured brown Duck Tape, but no one agreed with me.

The airbag lite on the dash is still on though.  I called the VW dealership in Tulsa, but after being on hold for about 10 minutes and then getting no help from the service dept, I called Import Auto in Stillwater and he said that if I send Kati in there they can run the code and see if it will reset.  He said that we may still have to take it to a dealer since it may have damaged the impact sensor when the airbag went off.  Hope not. 

OSU is playing tomorrow night and Debbie and I will be glued to the TV watching for Kati.  As you know, she is a “paddle person”.  We did see her during the last game when they played Texas, which we don’t want to discuss.  I have it on DVD.  Figure I will try to pinpoint her “seconds of fame” and post it, just haven’t taken the time to do it yet.

Well, gotta run. 

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Happy Halloween! 

Well, after spending most of the day in Tulsa, we stopped by Talala and hit up Mrs. Henderson for a couple of her “world famous” popcorn balls.  At least they are two county famous.  As we were sitting out front of my in-laws, a car pulled up in front of Hendersons and out jumped three girls, obviously one old enough to drive, and they ran up and got their prize.

So, not wanting to wait too long and not getting ours, we wandered over and mentioned that since the girls are all grown and gone, we have no excuse to come by other than the fact that we do love her homemade popcorn balls.  She graciously gave us both one.  As you can see, we enjoyed them greatly.

Everyone be careful tonight and if you are in Watova, come on by.  Our plans for tonight are to sit around, watch OSU whip up on Texas while watching for our daughter and her “paddle people” friends on TV.

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Talked Debbie into going to the casino down the street after we got back from Dinner with some customers from Fort Smith.  I stuck $3 in a penny machine and played it for a while, at one time being up about $12 or $15 and back down to nearly nothing a couple of times. 

I was just about to quit and then I hit a $20 winner, so we cashed out and thought “play a $1 machine, it’s their money, but the chicken came out in me so hit the quarter machine instead. 

I was down to the last few credits and figured, “go out big, bet it all” and ended up winning $23.58. 

Now I can play the big time.  Found a $1 machine and quickly lost down to the last few spins.  Then got a few bucks back, figured I was back to $20 so I should quit.  Debbie said, surprisingly, go ahead and spin a few more, you only started with $3.  Down to the last $5 I hit something that paid $100, so now I am up to $103, one more $3 spin, nothing, cash out….$100.00!  I have never won enough at any casino to cover what I lost, so I feel good.

Conference will be over tomorrow evening.  We are going to head back a ways and probably stay somewhere along the way before heading home on Wednesday.  Debbie needs to be home to help with the after-school program at Church.

Till later,

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Here is our “new” Bayliner Rendezvous.  She’s 23′10″ long, has a Force (made by Mercury) 120 hp outboard motor and is made for fun.

Go to the photo tab to see more pictures if you like.

I have also posted on Facebook, “Name that Boat” along with a couple of ideas that Debbie and I have kicked around, so be sure to visit my wall and cast your vote, or come up with a good one we can use. 

We took mom and dad out in it today and other than being a bit chilly, I think they both enjoyed it.  This boat really handles Grand (yes, a slight play on words).  After we dropped them back off at the cabin, Debbie and I went back out for a while longer.  Didn’t quite make it to the Dam, but we were getting chilled, so we turned around about TiaJuana Cove and headed back to load the boat back up and bring her home.  Pretty nice maiden voyage.  It pulls pretty good behind my Ford truck, not sure how well the Highlander would do, but maybe later I’ll take it down to Oologah and see how it does.

The people we bought it from had just bought it earlier this year, but have decided to move to the South of France and are selling off all their stuff.  They are both Authors, but that is another story (wow, another play on words).  They said that they had bought it from the original owners and it appears to have been kept up really nice.  Seems a little odd to go from an ‘05 back to a 1996 model, but we really just didn’t need the speed of the Tahoe anymore.  This one is going to be great for those days when you load up with food and drink and just go anchor in Sumerfield Cove to swim, eat and just relax.

Come by sometime and we’ll take you for a ride.

Jim

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The myth, Two happiest days of a man’s life?  The day he buys his boat, the day he sells his boat.

Busted!  We sold the above boat just a few days after we bought “impulse”.  Happy me on both occasions.  Then, last week we sold “impulse” to a guy in Canada, yes, I said Canada, and as we were giving his brother-in-law a spin around Oologah lake for a test drive, I think Debbie and I both had a little “maybe we don’t want to sell it”, second thoughts.  He will be meeting his brother-in-law in Fargo North Datoka next week which is half way home for our old boat! 

Now I spend every evening until late at night, searching for a replacement.  We took a test ride in a 1996 Bayliner Rendevous (Deck Boat) and have decided that this is what we want instead of the pontoon type boat that we were sure when we sold our boat that was what we wanted. 

I found  a couple of different ones, leaning towards and I/O but when I called on it, they had sold it the day before, so back to the internet.  Found one tonight in Arkansas, but it is a 27 footer and I am not sure I want to jump up that much bigger.  We want to stay around the 22 - 23 foot range. 

Here is a picture of the one we went to Shangri-la a looked at.  I think even mom would approve!  I’ll keep you posted on how we come out.  We have made on offer on this one, but the owner is in Arizona right now, so it may be a day or two before she makes her mind up, but hey, I can wait to save a few bucks……

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