Today's postcard:
The caption on the back:OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMASkyline view of downtown Oklahoma City. What is now the site of Oklahoma's capital and largest city was barren prairie on the morning of April 22, 1889. By nightfall the population numbered 10,000. Indian land was on that day opened to white settlement. The City is in the midst of an oil field; there are even wells on the capital lawn.
Happy Anniversary to: my friends Mike and Bev, whose anniversary is today.
Also, an early Happy Birthday to: my friends Kevin H. (Aug. 27), Syd (Aug. 28), and Tommy Jean (Aug. 29, which is also my birthday, as well as Michael Jackson's--a little trivia I thought I should throw in).
I know I've been lax about not doing my usual photo posting for the last few Sundays and I apologize. I promise to pick it up again next Sunday, and anyone who wants to can call me or send me an e-mail and fuss at me if I don't.
Today's postcard:
The caption on the back:The 89'er Statue on Park Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City. Dedicated to the men and women who opened this part of the country April 22, 1889 in the run. The Statue is a man and boy staking their land--a gift given to Oklahoma City by Mr. and Mrs. B.D. Eddie.
Today's postcard:
The caption on the back:Oklahoma City, OklahomaActual Anchor from Battle Ship U.S.S. Oklahoma. It is a memorial to Navy Veterans who have served their country in one or more wars. The U.S.S. Oklahoma was sunk December 7, 1941. This memorial located on Park Avenue was dedicated by Admiral Arleigh Burke--Chief of Naval operations May 19, 1960.
Happy Birthday to: my friends Mrs. D and Gerald (whose birthday was actually last Saturday, and I did send him a card on time).
And that's all I can think of to post about right now . . . I haven't been doing much lately except for trying to deal with the heat and humidity--it was still 101 degrees at 7:30 this evening--and chasing bugs all over the house. Everyone has had a lot of problems with bugs this year because of all of the rain we've been having--I've been seeing a lot of crickets and spiders, and for the past few days I've been dealing with a lot more flies than usual--I reduced the local fly population by eight or nine today, and every time I killed one I saw two or three more buzzing around. I haven't seen any for a few hours now, so I may have finally gotten all of them (but I'm not betting on it--they'll probably be out in force again tomorrow.)
(So I did find something to post about after all, even it was nothing more exciting than bug hunting. Yippee.)
Today's postcard:
The caption on the back:THE NEW Y.M.C.A.OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMAI'm not sure exactly when this was "new" (early 1960's? or the late 1950s?), but it was one of the casualties of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in 1998 (a fact I had forgotten until I did a search on the Web to see if I could find out when it was built).
Just remembered a few things I've been intending to post about (and kept forgetting because I've had a lot of other things on my mind lately) . . .
First, I finally got around to posting some of the pictures I took at my niece Emelia's first birthday party back in June. They're in my Photobucket account in the sub-album titled--what else?--"Emelia and her First Birthday Party."
Also, I noticed recently that the SoonerCon website has been redesigned. There's a new discussion forum and a photo gallery with pictures from SoonerCon 2007 and one of the con committee meetings. There's also a space for pictures from SoonerCon 2006, but no pictures posted yet.
Finally, I took down all of the pictures I had posted in my Yahoo! photo account. They stopped accepting new uploads and announced that the photo service would be shut down for good in September, so I decided to go ahead and take everything down since I'm sure most of the folks I know have already seen everything that was posted there.
