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They always say if you are in Oklahoma and don’t like the weather, just stick around a day and it will change. How right is that this past week. As you can see from the picture, there is still a little snow on the ground, but you can see the trailer now. Just three days ago, it was buried under about 3 feet of snow.

Last Thursday, Nowata set the all time low for the state with a -31 Degree F, and tomorrow it is supposed to be in the low 70′s. In fact today, according the the temperature gauge in my pickup it was 73 when I came through Tulsa. That makes a 100 degree difference in only 6 days. Again, if you don’t like the weather……

Jim

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Don’t know why this number intrigues me, but if I had a nickel for every night I laid awake in bed and saw 11:11, or driving down the road and it was 1:11 or 11:11 on the digital dash, I could be rich. Maybe tonight, I can fall asleep before 11:11, but now I will have to worry and wait until November 11th….11/11/11

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It’s been a nice weekend, and now just warming up in our new living room area by the fire.

Started out on Saturday by a run to Hobby Lobby to pick up a couple of things to decorate the wall in the living room, some lunch out, then back home to get ready for our Brenntag Holiday Party at the Hard Rock Cafe/Casino in Catoosa.

It was a nice dinner. They had some prizes to give away afterwards and played some musical chairs and a Brenntag version of “Lets Make a Deal”. Everyone seemed to enjoy the games (I wasn’t “lucky enough” to have my ticket drawn to play), and Jolly even won a ‘zonk’ prize. It was a painted up hard hat with all sorts of decorations on it. Maybe he will wear it to work on Monday.

After a quick run through the casino to cash in the $10 free play we got, we headed home.

Church this morning, lunch at Cheddars in Tulsa later, a run by Sams for a few things, Wal-Mart for more and then to Reasors to finish off what we couldn’t get at WM then home again.

I moved the JD mower into the carport, moved some junk in the main garage so I could put the Highlander in, just incase we really get snow, had some soup and a little leftover chicken from Cheddars, and now we are just sitting around the warm, quiet house.

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Didn’t haul this 1980 Dr Pepper can off, at least I don’t think I did (this was the one Debbie found in the Kitchen wall while they were remodeling, but I did gather up the past few years of cans scattered around in bags and a 55 gallon drum in the barn and hauled them off.

Probably didn’t make my gas money back, but actually got $0.60 per pound for the cans and the old aluminum gutters we replaced on the front of the house. The main thing is I cleaned up the barn and the yard of the junk.

Couldn’t believe that scrap metal is so high right now. I can remember hauling cans off, thinking, wow, $0.20 per pound, I’ll be rich and $4.00 later I could buy 5 gallons of gas. Now 20lbs of cans will get you $12.00! But wait, that is only 4 gallons of gas. Go figure.

Still have some cleanup to do, but it is supposed to get pretty cold over the next few days and it can wait.

Jim

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So, the first work week of 2011 is almost over. Has anyone besides me thought that it was, like, 27 days long?

After taking a day or two before Christmas and the whole next week off, it was pretty darn hard to get up Monday and head to work.

Loaded up a pickup load of “junk” tonight and planning on hauling it down to the scrap metal guys tomorrow. I have two 55 gallon drums full of smashed pop cans, a bunch of aluminum guttering that came off the house and a small pile of copper pipe and fittings that I saved out of the Grandparents house when we tore it down years ago.

Maybe I’ll make enough to pay for the gas! If not, no biggie, at least it is stuff I won’t have to mow around or work around out in the barn.

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My daughter bought me one of these for Christmas and it is pretty darn cool. It is soooo simple:
load the card onto your laptop and identify the network you use
then you transfer the card to your camera
Take pictures and they automatically load onto your laptop.

Sounds easy, well it is. I am sure I had to do a little more than this, but not much. I did figure out that the card she bought me was “to big” for my camera. I have a Nikon D50 digital SLR and it won’t take a card larger than 2 gb, but we just had to downsize to a smaller card and everything was fine.

You can also add addtional networks anytime to the card, so if I’m at the Lake, I will add our cabin network, or work, or anywhere. Like I said, Pretty Darn Cool huh?

You can also upgrade to an online storage site and then you can access your pictures from anywhere you can get an internet connection. Not too sure how that would work so I haven’t dug into that yet.

Try it sometime, I think you will like it.

Jim

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