It was interesting that on my last post I was complaining that we have not had any rain.  I was telling the world how dry it was here and that I still have not had to mow my lawn.  It has rained three times since then and is raining at the moment.  I am off [...]

It is now Spring in Oklahoma and the temperatures were finally beginning to reflect this when it was 72 degrees the day before yesterday.  I was seeing many birds such as Robins, Blue Jays, and even Cardinals.  Unfortunately we had one of those late season snows yesterday with a cold North wind.  Last night I [...]

This video speaks for itself as being a close up shot of a lightning strike.  I did not film this though the person that did film it said it was right here in Oklahoma City.  I can believe it because we have some pretty scary lightning around here at times.  Ironically I was searching for [...]

This morning we got out of the house to survey the storm mess.  I took some photos this morning to see some of the ice.  As you can see this picture was taken looking directly into the front door of the house.  I knew I better take this photo first thing in the morning because [...]

On January 28, 2010 we started off the morning dry and cold.  Before long the rain moved in and the temperature dropped.  By 10:00 AM the boss had decided to send everyone home because the roads were getting icy.  It took us a whole hour to get from our parking lot to the gate to [...]

The last couple of days we have had no water because of a busted water line under the house.  Yesterday we finally called out a plumber to fix the broken pipe under the house.  You can see this pipe in the photo above showing how it burst on one side.  Then we found the outdoor [...]

This week has been one of the coldest and longest weeks in many years resulting in the first pipe breaking freeze in more than ten years.  We have been sitting around waiting for the warmth to return as it has this morning, sort of…  The current temperature is 41 degrees.  On Wednesday morning I noticed [...]

Wow!  We often complain about never having snow here in Oklahoma City.  Most of the time if we do have winter weather, it ends up being sleet or freezing rain.  Yesterday it was a nice 65 degrees and we were really enjoying it.  This morning I woke up at 6:00 AM and it was raining.  [...]

As much as I love my hometown, there is one thing that it really lacks in the winter time and that is color.  As the photo above is in black and white, it is representative of some of the days we have in the winter.  This is Ray Trent park in Del City on a [...]

  I guess it is that time again.  The photo above shows the temperature as 109 degrees while the National Weather Service only listed the high as 105.  Oklahoma gets a little of both cold and hot.  This is fairly common temperatures to get in summer though it only happens about two weeks each year.  [...]