Well, as if we haven’t had enough rain, we got another 1/2 inch of rain this AM here at the house. But much heavier rain to our west and south (2 1/3 inches). We didn’t have the wind that was up to 65 MPH. If we would have had the wind it might bring down the three limbs still hanging by a thread in two of our tree’s. And we are to have rain again the next two days. I guess we start to work on our building of our ARK.
We’re now 35 inches of rain for the year. That’s 15 inches above normal.
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About all you can say about the last few days is its been cold, hot, wet and busy. Lotsa of mowing going on Saturday getting ready for the coming over for fathers day. And a very busy time Sunday with Matt and Laura and families over for home made ice cream (the best in years) and kraut paddies/rolls or whatever you call them. Everyone left about nine last night after watching golf.
But all thru the night we had thunder and rain, at least starting around 2 AM. And its been raining ever since. I know places to our north have had over 5 inches but we’re at about 2 inches here at the house.
Here are a few of the pictures from yesterday.
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This has been a very bad year for the weather in general. It started in December with the ice storm which is just now winding down from the picking up of the dead limbs and stuff. Then we went into lotsa rain, some snow, a little more ice and the winds. And the areas around town continues to look bad. Not all home owners care a lot about how the yards look so things can and get to looking badly. The area around the Tulsa metro area has been addressing flooding also.
We are now at 32 inches plus rain for the year. That’s just a few inches from the all-time record for rain and we still have aover half a year to go.
Here are some of the pictures I’ve taken just around the house just covering the first 10 days of June.
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Then another bad storm and winds up to 78 MPH
Just to let you know. We’ve tried to bring down these limbs but we just can’t get them to fall. Now the reason we can’t get them down is that the limbs are 20 to 30 feet off the ground. We now await the tree guys for the third trip in the past year.
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Kassidy’s birthday celebration was held at the Matt Loveless house just outside Broken Arrow Oklahoma. I apologize to Kim for not having a picture of her.
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On May 16th, at Skiatook High School, Kevin Loveless got his graduation diploma. Lotsa family and friends attended. The pictures below are generally of Kevin’s total family, both Matt’s and Michele’s families.
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Many years ago when the Karen and Steve Johnson family was just starting, they moved into a house here in Tulsa. Its in a great part of town, one of those great areas that costs just about $50,000 above normal because it is located in this ritzy part of town. Anyway, part of the house, I should say the part detached, a garage, was really not in that good of shape. It was leaning a little to the west and to the north then.
But it has gotten worse over the years. We, Karen, Kyle, Marie and I started addressing the garage late in 2007. Some of this effort is shown in pictures showing the bracing of the garage and cleaning it out. I was leading the effort to bring the structure down with the help of other family members. We had a dumster ordered and tools from a local rentall were signed up for. But “they” (whomever “they” are) had someone come in to look at what it would take to bring the garage down and “they” said it was something that should only be handled by professionals.
Accordingly I wasn’t allowed to address the problem. What with the December 2007 ice storms and subsequent rain and wind storms this year, nothing was accomplished. But a few months ago, a neighbor turned in Karen to the city for limbs hanging in her trees and as a result of that inspection, they saw the garage. They said the garage must come down.
Its now down thanks to a local contractor. These pictures show some, if not most of this effort.
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Kyle’s 19th birthday bash was held at the “old homestead” on the 25th. A good crowd was in attendance. We even had some of the volunteers from the Safari where Kyle donates a lot of time just helping out.
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Who is Royal Price? Well. Royal (along with wife Wilma) was a very good friend of Marie’s Dad. He was Bill Taylor’s “fishing buddy”. Many a weekend at the lake we (and all our kids) would see Royal at the lake property that Bill had. These are delightful people who we hadn’t seen in 20 years. We went over to Muskogee to Royal’s 90 birthday party, Marie, her sister Evelyn, her brother Paul and I. A good time was had by all.
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After another 3 weeks I have some more pictures of the yard and how we are looking yard wise into the Spring. The weather has generally been cool and wet so we aren’t getting much growth out of the grass and some of the bushes and plants. But things look good anyway.
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