UMC ANNUAL CONFERENCE

To heck with preachers, this is the week to feel sorry for PKs (Preacher's Kids) or TO's (Theological Offspring).

Memorial weekend marks the beginning of Oklahoma UMC Annual Conference. It has great meaning for me. Usually I would attend church camp and find out after camp that we would be moving. Once I went to camp, then went to my grandparents for a few days, then went to a new home in a different town. I can't remember which move that was, but I can remember it was traumatic. However, I did get some gypsy in my soul. In my first marriage we moved 17 times in nine years. Four years was the longest I lived anywhere until the children and I moved into the Tulsa house. My next move will be soon. Ron and I will move from 320 to 321 -- right across the street -- in approximately 3 months! That is going to be an exciting move.

GOOD GUEST BAD GUEST

Wayne and Binky are very nice guests. Below is my Markering of Binky from 2003 when he was a pup of 12. He has slowed only a tiny bit at age 14 (or 98 in dog years).

I only have one complaint. Wayne took over my chickens when I ran to Tulsa and now won't give them back. I should enjoy the rest, but he doesn't tuck them in quite like I do and I fear he thinks they are livestock instead of chicken-children. God Forbid!

Binky The Bass Wrestling Dog 

So Special

A birthday greeting
Can't get much better
Than a perfect card and
A Chicken Sweater!

Thank you sister.

Well, a duster paw and a tractor fan is pretty cool too. And Pot Roast with gravy owed is super.

(Warning, this pattern chicken sweater copyright "c 2005 Design Options, Inc." All Rights Reserved)

A birthday greeting 

GRUMPY OLD MEN

I feel like I am living in an episode of "Grumpy Old Men". Ron playing an exact Walter Matthau and Wayne doing a close Jack Lemmon. Think we'll share the joy and travel to Pittsburg today for a quick visit.

Ryan at bat 

Dillon, Tandy, Ryan, Mother, Beth 

Some Structures Crumble

Jenny Impey, Minister High Street Methodist Church, Maidenhead, England is writing this week's Disciplines devotionals. Today regards some buildings that remain standing after a hurricane while others are destroyed and she compared that to our faith. She wrote, "What holds us firm when the storms come is not our outward faith but our inner foundation." I read this tonight after coming back from Tulsa and being with mother and feeling so grateful to her and Dad for our strong inner foundations. Elenore had to be feeling it as they travel home from Florida today and Print as they prepare for Annual Conference next week. We are all so blessed!

Up and Running

If the rain will let me, I'll be heading down the highway for Tulsie Town soon.

If you're looking for me,
you know where I be......

CONGRATULATIONS CHRISTY AND ETHAN

Today is THE DAY and we wish you congratulations and blessings :-)

COLOR THEM MARRIED 

Happy Birthday To You Dear Elaine

It is the birthday today of Elaine.
We hope blessings fall without rain
We know she loves her new house.
She is greatly loved by family and spouse.
Why Naples? She’ll be glad to explain!

Chicks Are Named

Wonderful day yesterday. Chelle, Mike, and Hope arrived to meet the chickens and play and have lunch with me. Ron and Snuffy were busy talking and fishing. The new, fluffy baby chicks were a huge hit. All now have names. We have six Noble Davies, One Bonus, a Lilly, a Lil, a Dolly, a Chicken Little.

HAPPY BOYS

Snuffy a/k/a C.W. a/k/a Wayne has arrived with his Bass Wrestling dog, Binky. Ron has already whisked them away to the Marmeton River. Two smiling Chiefs telling The Tales of The Sea.....again and again.

Looking out of kitchen into bathroom/utility room. 

The back of house. 

Parade of chicks 

Easter Egg Chickens 

Great Expectations

The babies have arrived. They have far exceeded my greatest expectations. These are one-day-old Arracanans. They are knows as Easter Egg Chickens because they will lay eggs in varitions of greens, blues and, yes, even some pink. We ordered ten and received eleven. The dark gray one shall be known as Bonus. There are six that appear identical in shades of brown and gold, so they are named the Noble Davies, for the most noble David Colladay. This leaves two, soft gray ones and two soft blonde ones for Mike and Hope to name when they visit on Friday.