The National Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma plays homage to the “Main Street of America.” While the National Route 66 Museum may not be as grand as the name suggest, it is a lovely little museum that is relatively cheap at $5 per person and not only gives some information on the “Mother …
Monthly Archive: March 2012
Mar 30
Flora Photography Number 24 – The Color of Autumn
Now, I would like to be able to take credit for this picture but I cannot. Karen was the one that was able to get this shot. She was traveling home one day and the color of the leaves and the neighborhood just compelled her to take the picture. Karen just pulled her car over …
Mar 29
What Makes Our Marriage Work- We remember the good times
I can say that I am truly blessed with a wonderful wife. Karen is the sweetest, gentlest person that is always trying to look for ways to make my day better. However we are both human and sometimes our days do not go as planned, work gets hard, and we have our moody and cranky …
Mar 28
Making a Great Room- Resurfacing the Fireplace Part 2
Good news and bad news the good news is that the fireplace is almost finished the bad news is that it took is a few more days than we thought it was going to. In my defense, I think I would have been able to get it done a few days faster if KU would …
Mar 27
Albuquerque Biological Park
If you are ever in Albuquerque and you want to stay busy for an entire day and not spend a lot of money doing it then the Biopark is the place to be. It is a combination of three wonderful areas that are connected through the transit system of the city of Albuquerque. There is …
Mar 26
Monday Musing: Answers to your Questions
Well, I had no idea what to expect when I wrote last week’s Monday Musing. I was so happy to see a few questions to answer at least that tells me that there are some people out there that are at least interested in what we have to say on this site, which makes it …
Mar 25
Bumpdate: 28 weeks
How Far Along: 28 weeks, I had to schedule out all the rest of my Ob/Gyn appointments! Only seven more (or less) until she’s here! Wow, things are rolling along FAST now! Total Weight Gain/Loss: I did pretty good just holding steady this week. I’m up from 18.5 last week to 19 lbs this week. …
Mar 24
Flora Photography Number 25- Pink Orchid
Flora photography is something that I have gotten into since Karen and I have been married. She likes to go to gardens and I like to take pictures so naturally those two things have come together. Is it my favorite thing in the world to photograph? No, not by a long shot, give me wild …
Mar 23
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH “The rats on Mr. Gitzgibbon’s farm have-things-ways-you know nothing about. They are not like the rest of us. They are not, I think, even like most other rats. They work at night, in secret. Mrs. Frisby, do you know their main entrance?” Robert C. O’Brien’s book Mrs. Frisby …
Mar 22
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument – New Mexico
The Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is made up of three separate areas of Spanish Missions that created as an outreach to Puebloan societies that lived in the Salinas Valley in central New Mexico. Early in the 1600′s, the Spanish Franciscans found the area ripe for their Catholic missions and created three missions at Quarai, …














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