Thr Truth "behind" pumpkin pie!

Well Gang, I found the secret pumpkin pie factory!

Keith

Technology Challenged Senior

Technology Challenged Senior

At a certain age, everyone will understand this poor guy...

I thought about the 30 year business I ran with 1800 employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos, pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.

I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids, their spouses, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter with only 140 characters of space.

That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree, Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other program within the texting world.

My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything except the bowel movements of the entire next generation. I am not ready to live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.

The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get lost every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep that in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am supposed to use when I drive. I wore it once and was standing in line at Barnes and Noble talking to my wife as everyone in the nearest 50 yards was glaring at me. Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and I got a little loud.

I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time Every 10 minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul-ating" You would think that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light. Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good.

When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as Gypsy, the GSP lady, at least she loves me.

To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless phones in our house We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have run around digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry baskets when the phone rings.

The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I check out just knocks me for a loop.

I bought some of those cloth reusable bags to avoid looking confused but I never remember to take them in with me.

Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me, "Paper or Plastic?"

I just say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual. "Then it's their turn to stare at me with a blank look".

2009 Reunion Photos

Well since Derral is having a bit of problems with his flickr upload I thought I would give it a go. So here is the link to the files I have uploaded to flickr. Hopefully this will work. Please check out the link and let me know through a comment to this post if you could access the files.

Here is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlekeith/

Keith

Reunion 2009 Pics

We hope everyone enjoyed the little Howard get-together over Memorial Day weekend. As usual we consumed large quantities of food and beverage, but then we are Howard's. Here are the pictures I took at the family reunion. Sorry I didn't take as many as last year but time and too much conversation got the better of me. After a short survey it appears there was a pretty much an even split between fact and fiction (BS) among the attendees. Depending on who you talked to and who did most of the talking often meant sliding back and forth between truth and fiction. If anyone has more pictures be sure and post them somewhere so we can all see.

Click on the link to see my pictures - http://www.flickr.com/photos/derralh/

Derral Derails Sooners!

Well gang the saga of Derral destroying road games for the Oklahoma Sooners continues! It appears that when Derral travels to road games the Sooners lose. I believe we may have to force Derral to stop traveling to away games for the benefit of the team. There would be an additional bonus for Liz in this, Liz would now be able to travel to away games without the added burden of keeping Derral in check. :)

Keith

family reunion

Big kudos to Liz and Darrel for this years family reunion! Yesterday's shindig was a blast. As usual the food was great and the company was fabulous.

Not being able to be there last year, the pool was new to me and all of the kids seemed to love it. The men enjoyed the horse shoes and the lovely oak tree provided lots of shade for conversation.

A good time seemed to be had by all and I will ask my large but (mostly) gentle brother-in-law, Keith, to post pictures.

Thank you Darrel and Liz!

Laura

New Golf Web Site

Howdy gang!

I wanted to take a moment and let you know about Frank's new website. The website is www.buygolfforless.com in the website Frank will be hosting a blog and links to different golf equipment manufacturers. Along with this he will also be doing course reviews of different courses. His reviews will initially start in the central Oklahoma area. The course reviews will sometimes have coupons that will give discounts for green fees. The first course reviewed was the Jimme Austin course in Seminole, Oklahoma. The review also has a coupon which waves the green fees, all you pay is the cart rental.

So check out his website be sure to sign the guestbook and give your feedback.

Keith

Future of OIL??

Howdy Gang,

I read an article about a new company in California. This company is able to take agricultural waste introduce a microbe to it and the microbe turns it into oil.

Here is their website http://www.ls9.com/index.html I have not heard much on the news about this company. I saw a show on tv and they were talking about ethanol and bio-diesel and how the next generation oil men will be the farmers. I think this company may be taking this one step closer.

Keith

Very Good Movie

Hi Gang,

I just wanted to share a movie Wanda and I watched over the weekend. The movie title is "Taking Chance" starring Kevin Bacon. The movie is based on a true story of a Marine Lt. Col. that volunteers for escort duty in April, 2004. The movie is based on the journal that was kept by Lt. Col. Mike Strobl. Lt. Col. Strobl escorts the fallen 19 year old soldier Chance Phelps home to Wyoming. The movie chronicles his trip from Dover AFB to the small town in Wyoming.

The movie shows the care and appreciation that is shown for these soldiers by their fellow soldiers and the public that come in contact with the process.

A warning have plenty of tissues ready for everyone who watches this movie. We received the movie through our Netflix account I would believe the video would be available through most any video store. If you want more information on the movie here is the link to the movie at IMDB.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019454/

Keith

What? No one uses this blog anymore?

Madison jumping his Honda CRF80 last weekend. Only his 4th or 5th time riding his motorcycle.

Max races in the Texas Off Road Nationals

Max has been riding dirt bikes on and off for about a year or so. Last year he road his Honda 80 a few times and at Christmas he got a Yamaha YZ125 (2-stroke). The leader of his youth group at church is a motocross/enduro racer and has really built an interest in dirt bikes with most of the guys in his group. About 10 of them now have dirt bikes and ride about 2-3 times per month. Today Max raced for the first time. It was an eye-opening experience for him and he did pretty well. He raced a 1 hour timed race in the TORN championship in the 125cc Amateur class. He finished about mid pack (we'll get the times tomorrow when they are posted to their web site). He fell a few times and go a few scrapes and bruises, but nothing serious. Here are a couple of photos of the day. You can check out more photos @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbphotography/sets/72157614567578053/

My week with an American hero

I thought I’d share a little about my last week. I spent 8 days training at a location called CSAT (Combat Shooting and Tactics) in East Texas. This is a 300 acre training range owned by MSGT Paul Howe, Ret USA and a Delta Operator for 10 out of his 20 years (check out his name at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Howe). If you don’t know about Paul Howe check him out on Wikipedia.org. He is the real deal and among many assignments was most famous for his rescue efforts during “Black Hawk Down” in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is very humble and doesn’t talk much about his time unless you ask. The many can shoot everything he requires of his students and probably 10 times better.

I wrote up a summary or After Action Report of my 6 training days with him. I thought I’d share that with you. You can read my complete right up at http://www.baileytactical.com/blog .

There are a couple of photos and a short video I posted on my flickr account. You can see the video here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbphotography/3307360059/ .

Here’s a photo of the group of guys I trained with. They came from the FBI SWAT team, Air Marshal Service, US Marshalls, local SWAT teams and a couple of Blackwater private security guys going back for their 3rd and 4th time to Iraq and Afghanistan. I was way out of my league but it made me better at the end of the week and I surprisingly kept up with all of them. On my last test I actually ran the fastest times of the week and hit every target in the kill zone, except I threw 1 shot just outside the kill zone on target. The kill zone is a target that is 6” by 13” over the spine/central nervous system.

Hopefully you’ll find it interesting. I came back sore, bruised, bleeding and a lot better tactically than I had been in years. It was hard but a lot of fun! 2000 rounds of ammo - it's all good!

Peace!

David

Sooners Not Enjoying Miami

THE game turned out to be are really good game.  OU didn't win but at least they came to play this year, as compared to the last couple of years.  They came close but then that is only good in horse-shoes and hand-grenades.  Perfect weather and a competitive game; only thing missing was a win.

Just a note on the Florida fans.  I've read several articles about Gator fans being worse than LSU fans.  I often thought that was impossible.  Well, the Gator fans in Miami were very civil and definitely not over the top when cheering for their team or talking to OU fans.  There are still the young, immature, stupid fan that should not be let out in public without his/her mother.  I would also add that most of the really rowdy fans were probably in Gainesville and didn't have a ticket to the game.  I don't think I would want to go to Gainesville to play the Gators on their real home turf.  Being out-numbered here in Miami by @ 3-1 was bad enough.

Now my soap box comment.  Why are all the Championship games play on the East and West coasts except for the Sugar bowl but it is in the heart of SEC and south.  Mid-America teams will never have a type of home field advantage that Florida did last night, LSU did in the Sugar bowl win OU played them.  I think the Cotton bowl needs to be added to the BSC bowl structure.  I'm done, I'm stepping of my soap box and am going to enjoy the Miami weather and food.

Did I mention Liz came with me???

Sooners in Miami

Liz has given me an early anniversary gift so I'm sitting here in the hotel room working on this blog since tmw is probably going to be a busy day getting ready for THE game.  Hopefully, the Sooners will beat the Gators for the Championship and put to rest many of the negative comments coming out of Florida and Texas, primarily Mac Brown.  That man really knows how to use politics in a sporting event.

Mike (Evelyn and Ron Pilgrim's son) and his wife Cheryl will be meeting us at the game.  They will be leaving at 6 AM Thursday so it will be a long day for them, but I think they will have time for a nap before the game.

The weather is nice (about like Oklahoma every other day) with the temperature in the 70's during the day and 60's at night.  One thing Florida does have over Oklahoma is everything is green year round.

I do believe I would not be considered a senior here, I'm too young!!!  There are old people everywhere.  They're everywhere, they're everywhere.....especially on the roadways.  Look out, here comes another one.  I know I'm going to be one soon enough but here some of the views are interesting.  The women may look old and wrinkly but they don't have to worry about certain parts or should I say pairs of their anatomy sagging.  I Florida a perky old lady has a different meaning than in Oklahoma.

Went to eat in South Beach tonight at "A Fish Called Avalon" and had an excellent meal.  For some reason I kept thinking of Wanda while I was eating.  May go to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. friday, hopefully to celebrate a win or cry in my beer.

Be get to bed to get my beauty sleep and rest for the big game.

Oh, yea, did I mention Liz came with me.

Derral

Happy New Years to all! May your next year be filled with health, happiness and love. Currently I have all of those and it's all anyone really needs. Today is my love's birthday, Happy Birthday Frank. I love you!