LIFE IN A FLYOVER STATE: honeybees

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Getting Lost on the Internet: Confessions of an Easily Distracted Human Being

One of the hazards of the Internet is the ease with which one can join a site, participate in it, then lose track of it, only to stumble across things again. About two and one-half years ago I posted 4 videos to YouTube. Life intervened, sending me down another path. Months passed. Memory faded. I knew the videos were on YouTube, I just couldn't locate them again! So I started another YouTube account.

Of my original uploads, one had to do with my use of the Critter to make pulp for papermaking, another one was about our honeybees (who have since swarmed off into the wild blue yonder), and two more videos which were posted during the high gasoline prices a couple of years back.

The links to my "forgotten" videos are below. I only found them because someone made a comment about one of the videos and through that comment I found my "lost" videos! Thank you, kind someone. (Some might think the video clips deserved to stay lost, but it was like seeing old friends again for me.)

Maiden Run of the Critter

Honeybees in southwest Oklahoma

Saving gasoline in Rural Oklahoma, Part I

Saving gasoline in Rural Oklahoma, Part II

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We can see the beautiful Wichita Mountains from our front yard. People make fun of the fact that we call them mountains, but they are one of the oldest ranges in the United States. The Wichitas are just lying on their collective side. Frankly, I would be lying down also if I were over 500 million years old. Time wears us all down eventually. Even granite!

There’s a lake one mile to the west of us, but it is best viewed from a distance. It is still the ugliest lake I’ve ever seen and though I am fond of this area, my opinion about that lake has not changed over the years.

When we moved here 30 years ago, there were not the neighborhoods just to the south of us that there are now. Our neighbor to the north -- and that neighbor is one-half mile away -- runs cattle on her pasture. The pasture across the road from us is owned by the school district. That land is rented out for farming and grazing. Deer still surprise us and an occasional bobcat or coyote grabs a chicken from our coop. Our Suffolk sheep walk up to our dining room windows and peer in every once in awhile, baaing.

There is a military post on the other side of the Wichitas. If we go out at certain times of the day, we can see rockets streaking across the sky. Also, we will hear booming cannons firing on the practice ranges. It’s especially loud in the winter time when the humidity is low and troops are training on the east range. Once five Chinook helicopters hauling Army tanks flew low over our pasture. The post is the only fort built during the Indian Wars that is still active today. It was staked out on January 8, 1869. Its history is a rich one.

We can walk the same stretch of road everyday of every year and always see something different. We have to pay attention some days to see the changes, but we have the time.