Road Trip photos

All good trips involve good food. In this case, a Greek meal at Zorba's in Oklahoma City. Started with a pita and hummus appetizer.  

Followed by a delicious Gyros sandwich and taboli salad.

Grand Dad in his Man Cave reading newspapers. We spend most of our time chatting and watching the news. We started watching the OU vs OSU football game, but unfortunately OU quickly fell behind, which allowed us to change the channel to Fox News and watch the 2 hour Republican Presidential Forum hosted by Mike Huckebee. It was very well done and allowed us to get an in dept look at each candidate without any bashing or dumb questions. We both think that a Romney/Bachman ticket would give the Republicans their best team against Obama/Biden in 2012.

I was amazed that Edmond, Oklahoma, has a dog park.

For citizens with tiny yards to bring their dogs to a large open area. Glad I live on a farm with plenty of room for our dogs, cats and boys to roam without putting any of them on a leash.

The fastest route to visiting Grand Dad means taking toll roads.

Toll roads with lots of construction.

Tulsa also has major highway expansion work going on.

More toll roads.

This land mark is pretty cool - a giant McDonald's stretching above the highway in Vinita, OK.

Sunset at the end of a fun road trip.

And since the trip began with food, I must also eat at the end of the journey. Fixed a cheese qusedilla made with jalapeno tortillas. 

Gas is currently less than $3.00 per gallon!

I was very pleasantly stunned to see this price in my local town last week when tanking up to drive someone from Church to the VA hospital in St Louis.

For unleaded!

It was even cheaper on the outskirts of St Louis.

It was so cheap, I just had to make a road trip to visit Grand Dad in Oklahoma.

Stopped in Tulsa on the way home - same low price.

And the absolute lowest price was found at Sam's Club in Springfield, Missouri - $2.93! That's per gallon, not per liter. Wow. I never expected to see gas this cheap again in my life time. 

Urgent! Vote now for one of these qoutes to go on back of our Farm t-shirt:

1) The Best Foods Come From Local Family Farms

2) Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone…He Also Needs Local Farm Fresh Eggs, Fruit, Honey, Meat, Milk, and Veggies!

3) Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees…It Grows On Grass-fed Beef!

4) “I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.” ~Thomas Jefferson

5) Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Local Farm Fresh Foods

Boys night on the range

How to catch a sheep

The Friday after Thanksgiving, we needed to catch "Stewie" in preparation for tomorrow's "processing" day. K6 thought just 2 guys could get the job done, but alas, no way jose. K2 was yelling encouraging comments from the balcony, like, "Oh, you almost had him!" while laughing himself silly.

Reinforcements arrive with the proper equipment - the orange "net" fencing.

Deploy into proper formation.

Close in for the capture.

Team work and moving fast gets the job done.

Success. New loafing shed is already coming in handy.

Thanksgiving Day

This butterscotch pie was just one of many pies created for the feast. Patty made the pie crusts. I just happened to make this particular pie.

We planned an evening Thanksgiving meal because K6 had to work on this holiday.

Thanksgiving Week

Ducks

Bees and dogs

Fruit trees, cows and sheep.

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This is where we find Lizzy most mornings.

K2 let Mitt our parakeet out of his cage, so K8, the man with the soft touch, was called in to catch the bird.

Jimmy on the duck house.