Hot Day

It was way too hot to do anything much outside, so we headed to Woodland Hills Mall (along with 1,000 other cold seeking people)

This Mall has a carousel where all the hand-painted horses have names. Gabriella always rides Geneva Jo first (a horse painted with daisies) and then usually finishes up with Princess. Today, she chose Mustang Sally as her last steed.

While Joel shopped around for some shoes, I sat in the soft, play area with Gabriella. I called my mom and dad, just to see what they were up to. We decided to meet for dinner at El Chico's. My sister and her family arrived back in town yesterday after a 2 week vacation, so I called her to see if they wanted to join us.

The 11 of us had a great time at dinner together. I still can't get over that we live here now and can spontaneously get together for dinner. :)

Lost Windmill....?

I have been pondering this for a few days now and thought I would just throw it out there just in case anyone had some insight. Do you know what these are?

Last Tuesday night, we were pulling out of Senor Salsa's, when two semi-trucks drove North on 75. Each of them were carrying one of long curved things. I thought they looked like huge windmill blades. They were being escorted by several pilot vehicles and slowed traffic down a bit.

I didn't give it another thought until Thursday morning. I was making the drive from Nowata to Coffeyville to Caney and back to Bartlesville when I drove up behind what looked to be the same entourage. Two semis with many pilot vehicles....driving South on 75. I followed them all the way back to Bartlesville where I turned off and they continued.

I wondered if they were indeed the same trucks I saw Tuesday night and if so.....what had they been doing since then and why were they going back the same way they came....?

THEN...Friday afternoon, as I was driving South on 75 to Tulsa, I saw a semi driving North that was carrying a huge square thing with round openings on each side....just the right size that those huge blades would fit in.

Soooo......is there a wind farm somewhere in NE Oklahoma or Southern Kansas? Are they looking for the parts for a new windmill? If so.....they are wandering around down here in Bartlesville...