More rain headed to Deer Creek today. Since August 1st it’s been an incredible rain journey in Oklahoma. I love the weather. Living in Oklahoma you become a weather junkie. That’s why I loved the segments in Sam Anderson’s Boom Town book about Gary England and dealing with the Oklahoma weather.
My wife and I each have a rain gauge out here at our place in Deer Creek which is just a bit east of Edmond near the northern most edge of Oklahoma County. Close enough to Guthrie that Stables in downtown Guthrie is one of my favorite Oklahoma restaurants. She claims my gauge isn’t empirical enough for her. Whatever. I ask what her gauge readings were and she didn’t answer–which of course would lead me to believe she’d had 24.7 ” as did mine. You have to be married for a long time to understand this dynamic. It took me almost thirty five years to understand this dynamic of marriage, but I finally figured it out. There are times you just keep your mouth shut and roll with it. We’re coming up on our 39th year together.
Four deer are already coming in every sunrise and dusk at our nature park setting land. It really is like a nature park. There’s not many pieces of land like this in central Oklahoma. It’s the singular reason we put up with Oklahoma. But I guess every governmental jurisdiction has it’s own unique challenges.
In Oklahoma, it’s very simple, the state government needs to move into the current century and smarten the fuck up on multiple levels of governance. My gut political feel tells me Kevin Stitt will be our next governor and I’m hoping we’ll see more of Mick Cornett in his leadership than that of Mary Fallin and Donald Trump. I found it odd Cornett made it clear he wasn’t a Trump person while Stitt embraced both Trump and Fallin in defeating Cornett for the GOP nomination. Yet, this week in getting Cornett’s endorsement he in a sense torched both of those bridges by basically saying he wouldn’t accept Fallin’s endorsement and that the state appears to have been run by idiots and dimwits the past eight years. I think what Stitt is basically doing is trying to appeal to moderates and Independents like myself. The Dem candidate Drew Edmondson does nothing for me at all. As in nothing. Tough call.
I bought Cornett’s book yesterday…The Next Great American City. It will be interesting to read after reading Sam Anderson’s historical essay on Oklahoma City from a NY Times point of view.
Pauli is going crazy with the deer. She can’t get enough of them. It’s like she wants us to adopt them and bring them in the house with us. She’s looking at me right now with that look, ” Let’s go, Mike. Get off your ass and let’s go play with the deer.” Like a little kid on Christmas morning. So I think we’ll go hike through the wooded trails looking for the deer before it starts raining too hard. She will not walk in the rain. Period. She won’t leave the patio…the diva lab.
I was looking at the internet this morning and two things have happened historically on October 13th which caught my eye. (1) Nero became Emperor of Rome. We’re living that right now in America. No shit. And (2) Bob Dylan won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.
I may do something later on comparing Trump with Nero versus Caligula, but not today. I’m in a peaceful mood, why mess it up.