Before we loaded up and headed back to OK for a couple weeks I made a few rounds and picked up some local pictures of interest… in the Walmart parking lot..
It had the round headlights and this tag on it… so it had to be 70 vintage? My Mom and Dad had one back then that was the German made diesel, had the round headlights and got about 50 mpg highway… Dad loved it as he could go a long way on a 10 gallon tank… but back then it was not as easy to find stations… then he bought a newer one that was American made, had square headlights and only got a bit over 40 mpg? … Do you remember the old TV ads for Fahrvergnugen?
The day or so before we headed out we got word that the Elk were down in the pasture about a half mile north of the house so … when we happened to be going by one evening I grabbed some pictures… it took two to get most of them in…
Now I looked but didn’t inspect it real close but I didn’t see any bulls… they probably were back in the trees hiding..
Then as we head out a couple miles south east of the house… we had to wait for the family to cross the road..
We got here and I had several things that needed worked on… noticed the bushes, out of place trees and vines were killing out the cedars on the east side that semi block the house in that direction so I had to get in and cut and pull to clear some of that out before it did a number on all of them… and it is damn hot and humid here…
I also pulled grass out of the flower beds, and am in the process of digging to transplant and replant the Iris bulbs… the grass has over taken the bed so I am having to do a restart… probably should have done this last spring but didn’t get to it so will have to make due…
We made it to the Football game Thursday night and all I can say is that Jumbo-tron is huge… and playbacks on that leave little that seen…
I think the side screens are even bigger? and Thank God the game was late enough that the sun went down behind the west endzone before start. By half with the breeze it wasn’t too bad… in the Sun it would be DAMN HOT… also seems a lot of folks didn’t renew tickets? we hear most due to not being able to deduct the required donation on their taxes… which does make things a bit expensive…
Then on the way home tonight (Friday the 31st) we caught a “Sun Dog”…
The picture is not great but left center near that power pole… And that ends August 2018…
WD0AJG