Happy 91st Birthday, MOM

Jodean McGuffin Martin was born November 20, 1920

Mom is 5 yrs old with her brothers. Orvis and Donald

 

              1935 at 15 years old                                                        1937 at 17 years old

   1938 a High School Senior                                        1943 her first year to teach

                              1961 age 41                                                      1978 age 58

                        1980 age 60                                                               2002 age 82

                                                                        2007 age 87

2008 age 88

2010 age 90

Some of my favorite shots with Mom

Just a few pictures of a wonderful MOM!!!!

Stacy came to Oklahoma!

Stacy came to visit last weekend for a few days.  She isn’t going to be with us for the holidays so it was good to see her early. 

She came to go to a surprise birthday party for her friend, Barbara.  We picked her up at the airport on Thursday evening and visited with her on Friday until she went to her friends party.
On Friday, she went with us to see mother.  The Assisted Living Center was having a Birthday party for the residents that had birthdays in November.  Mother was one of the three that they honored. She was going to be 91.
 The entertainment for the party wassssssssssssssss                    ELVIS 


Elvis was in the house and he sang his heart out and wiggled his butt for about an hour. A little too long for this audience but they loved it and sang & danced along with him.  A fun afternoon for them. 

Stacy spent some time with her mom on Saturday and then after a leisurely morning on Sunday we took her back to the airport to go home.  Too short of a visit but we loved seeing her. 

Abby wanted to go home with her.

This last Tuesday, Stacy then had surgery on one of her knees and is recuperating nicely. 
Come back and see us soon!!

EARTHQUAKE!!!!!

 

I felt two earthquakes yesterday, Saturday November 5, 2011.  My first!

Earthquake #1: 2:15 am, I woke up and heard something rattling.  I thought the wind was blowing really hard & moving the house or the heater had come on. I realized it was a metal wall hanging above the bed, it was rattling.  I put my hand on it and it stopped.  I could tell Don was awake too and I said it was the picture that was rattling and we both went back to sleep. I wasn’t even worried about it.  Then the next morning Don came into the bedroom and said did you feel the bed rock last night. I said oh sure and then I remembered the rattling. He said a 4.7 earthquake had occurred near Prague.  I was really surprised & shocked.  It was all over the news stations all day.

The last few years we have heard about a lot of quakes around the Jones & Chandler areas. They were very small ones.  I had never felt any of them. 

In 1955 they had a record of a quake in El Reno that was a 5.2.  We missed a new record.

Earthquake #2:  Saturday night I went to bed early.  I wanted to watch the OSU football game in bed. I watched a while but I slept thru most of it until the end.  Very exciting game and very close.  They won 52-45 it wasn’t decided until the last second, literally. 

After it was over Don came into the bedroom and was getting ready for bed.  I was still awake watching the news. Then the picture started rattling again and I said Don!! it is an earthquake again.  It was 10:52.  I had enough time to figure out what it was, get out of bed and walked over to Don all the time hollering & watching the clock to see how long it was going to last.  Everything was moving.  Abby was lying on the bed and she jumped up and ran under the bed.  It lasted I think for over a minute.  Quite exciting and hard to go back to sleep.  Don't know what is happening.  This one was a 5.7 pretty big around here.  Something new to talk about.  We had no damage at our house.

Yes we get it all in OKLA, tornadoes, floods, drought, blizzards, hurricane remnants, ice storms, humidity, heat, fires, & wind. May have to check on earthquake insurance now.

Do we have any volcanoes in Oklahoma?