Well, not much to tell, but we have been real busy… Got up and hit the road yesterday… stopped in Guthrie for breakfast… not exciting, just Braums… The whole thing from home south through OKC and even up over the pass near Davis it was foggy… so much so in spots that I totally missed seeing the Davis exit and much of the Turner Falls exit… it was supper thick going up and over the pass… then on the other side it started to clear a bit and by the time we got to Ardmore it was just very low clouds… Then it rained a little and quit and then rained a little and quit…
The Red River is getting to near severe flood stage under I-35…
As we crossed the river got this picture… not great but shows it is way , way up for the Red… pulled this from a news report… before this weekends rains…
Now they say it is spilling over the emergency spill on Lake Texhoma… only done that 3 times before in the history of the lake 1957, 1990, and 2007… now it is 4 times and the rain keeps coming? How High will it go?
Anyway we moved on to our destination in Frisco… Grandma needed a Grandson fix…
GS #2… and
GS #1 – yes he is taking Hockey practice this year and will probably practice some in summer? At least he can skate… and handles the stick pretty good for only doing it a few weeks..
As soon as we got here we had to all split… GS#2 had practice and had to be their early to get all that stuff on… so some of us went to Taco cabana for lunch… then on to the hockey rink… we watched a little and then had to get GS#2 back for his nap… good excuse for me to tag along … for a nap… The rains came later in the evening a bit harder and my phone kept going off in the middle of the night… I have the Red Cross apps for weather warning things like floods and tornados, etc.. we we had 2 Flood Warnings… but I wasn’t as worried… we sleep on the second floor so the flood needed to get real serious to get me wet… I turned the phone off…
Today we got up late… kind of dogged around and had Kolaches for breakfast… boy are they good… I had intended to go get them but SIL beat me to it and I sure appreciate that… He said he had to do the HIGH JUMP to get out to his car across the wet flooded sidewalk and the river in the drains but that is ok… he is young and can hand all that exercise… ha!
We all split up again as the women and GS#2 took off to church… while SIL and GS#1 went for haircuts and I tagged along… It was a busy shop with 10 chairs and noisy… it also appeared to me that everyone got about the same haircut? makes it easy for the barbers and by the way there were at least 3 men barbers in this cut shop… something you don’t see a lot of anymore… Once they were done we took off to check out another sports shop as SIL is looking for skates… some for GS#2 and or SIL as he thinks he will take up some skating activity? Sounds good to me… as it will be cool in the arena as opposed to hot out on the Baseball fields… The shop was way over in McKinney… well that is not too far in the Dallas area… once we saw what they had which wasn’t much we toured the park to see the flood there and back through down town… I should have been getting pictures instead of so much tourist gawking… but did get a little flood at the park..
Hard to tell but the walking bridge over the creek is under water, and all the debris is being washed up to the upper ends here…
They said that was a pool, maybe wading pool at the park but now it will need some serious cleaning…
We left there and headed on up 75 to the Costco there… I don’t get to a them very often as we don’t have any in Oklahoma City (we are Sam’s Club members because they pay me to use their credit card)… Anyway, I found out that if you get to Costco at the right time you can have lunch… tested sausages… cheese and jalapeno.. strawberries on shortcake, and the others had to test the pineapple, lemonade, Indian spice stuff, and then we had some grilled cheese sandwich pieces made with flavored butters… really like the French onion butter on that grilled cheese… so much we go a tub of that and the garlic and spice butter… they had many other samples but I was good until the end… GS#1 wanted the ice cream in a cup… about a 12 ounce cup so I got the one with strawberries in my (for $1.45) so my lunch was done… from the sample corners…
Got home and skipped any further lunch from the leftover barbeque we had last night… and then …. took another nap… hey it was still raining…