Trunk and Treat Halloween!

Seth visits a Trunk-&-Treater. Notice what is in the trunk. One trunk was very, very scary and made a little girl cry. Seth wasn't scared by anything, though, and knew just what to do.










Thanksgiving scene in the back of this "Trunk & Treater.



Another Thanksgiving theme. There was between 30 and 40 vehicles that took part in the "Trunk and Treat." After this, we went to GARFIELDS and ate, where the waiter was dressed up for Halloween as well.

No. *8 Looking Good-Brandon Caleb

Did you watch the OU Chattanooga game. If you did, you saw that Brandon Caleb did a great job while he was in. He blocked to allow a score. Then he was in for 4 passes and he caught them all, as far as I could see. He missed none. So, ... Brandon, keep up the good work. You are the MAN!!!! I think Brandon is listed as a number 2, which means he is right behind the starters, ready to go in. His hands are duck-tape, when it comes to catching those passes.

Watching OU For Brandon Caleb!!!

-----This is Brandon Caleb, an Oklahoma University football player who should make first string this year. He has been out all last year because of an injury. He has rehabbed succesfully and should see quite a bit of playing time, this year.

-----I have done some checking, but can find very little information on him from the Soonerfan site, but I will give you what I know, and we will keep up with his progress during the playing year. It is hard to believe that we are staring at another season. If a pass from Bradford and Caleb is successful, throughout the year, then OU will be having a great year.

-----Brandon is from Atlanta and has played football since he was little. He was always better than the kids around him, but he was still, "pinch me time," when he received a letter from OU saying that they wanted him full time, to take over the right or left wing player who will catch passes.

-----Welcome aboard Brandon, and hope you will keep up with this blog as well. It is easier to keep up a blog than it is to keep up a webpage, anymore.

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SASSIE SINGS AWAY WITH THE BLUE RIBBON!

Seth turns a year older on June 3rd. Every year at the same time, Denton, Texas has a dog singing contest. Last year I wanted to enter Sassie, but had to give in to the powers that be. This year was different. Seth's birthday party was moved up one day, so his mother could get off work. So Sassie Rae-Joplin was heading for the 14th Dog Days Celebration in Denton, Texas. Sassie was great in the car, but, ... we could not find The Days Inn. I had pre-registered over the phone.

We drove around over the highways and byways for about an hour and a half. The reason we missed it, was that the sign was below the Interstate and could not be seen by the driver. When we did get there, we were stunned. A "No Pets Allowed" sign was up, so what could we do. The motel had already been payed for. We snuck her in, any way.



"Shhh!" I said, to all the kids sitting at front of the stage on the ground. "How many of you know "The Star Spangled Banner?" A few hands shot up as the kids stared at Sassie. "With any luck, we might get Sassie Rae-Joplin to sing the whole song, and, ... if she does, Sassie may be the first dog in the history of the flag to sing The Star Spangled Banner."

The kids sat there patiently as my microphoned emcee came over and leaned down by Sassie. I had told him that Sassie may start out "moaning and whining" before she actually started singing. Never know. From the first note to the last, Sassie sang all the way through. Listen to the people at the end of the song. Of course, ... as you can see, Sassie easily won "The Denton Dog Days Celebration's DOG SINGING AWARD." Pretty cool, huh. Listen to her again.

Bro Love Doesn't Include Politics

So Wolfowitz walks away from The World Bank, after a brokered deal, to help his resume. Does that mean he did do anything wrong? Even Bush couldn't get him through this one. Get this, ... if Witzy hadn't been in trouble, he would still be doing the bank thing. HE IS NOT. It still is on his resume that he headed up the bank for a "short-time." Wonder what would have happened if the girlfriend thing hadn't happened.

But this is the guy who thought Iraq would be a cake-walk and convinced, the easily convinced Bush to go for it. Was it successful. NOT! Throw the flowers out.

Uploading dog-music on youtube with 26.4 speed is a killer on my lower back. This one is Amazing Grace. It is longer, because it took Sassie the second verse before she began to sing. And sing she did. The song is done, crossharped out of the D harp. Hopefully, I will get it up, before my back gives out. If not, do a youtube search of "okharpman."

As I wordprocess this, the satellite reception is bad. TV is mugged. And I want to consider getting on the satellite from Poordunk, for a faster speed. Get real. Looking at the dish map, this area has not come on line, anyway. A friend put his computer on the satellite, but after a year, he dropped it. I bet for the same reason.

Sassie Makes Precinct History

Tuesday was voting day, and the way it looked, we were going to have to get a boat to make the precinct. The only thing being worse than us, was being our neighbor. We both shared a water problem.


I called Alaska, Ohio, and New York, besides having to dig up a leaky underground hose and ran into problems, ... while my neighbor had a huge water problem. Planned on spending a lot of time this last weekend calling, but, ... alas, first things come first.

"The ball is wet, Dad," my son said as he tossed it to me on the west lawn.

"Wet? What are your talking about?"

Yikes!! We've got a small pond here. There was a pool of clear water covering all the ground under the tree. Huh? How could this be?

"It's the washing machine water, Dad!"

"Nyet! Can't be, ... but what would a water line be doing over there!"

Our house is almost a hundred years old, and I had figured that we had already established where the pipes were, and one shouldn't be there. Will work on it tomorrow.

Our son and his wife had felt very badly because they voted Green the 2000 election. Not this time.

Woke up the next morning, and Marcella had already dug up the pipe area, but couldn' see the pipe for the water. I suggested it was deep enough. We'll get water fillups and turn the water off. Can't get parts on Sunday.

Next morning, Monday, there was a dry hole with the exposed water-line. My first attempt at splicing it, was a total failure. The old water line split, when I tucked the lines together with a metal splicer. SO, ... I had to splice in a whole foot of line, which meant another drive to Fort Cobb. Usually, I would have a small drip, drip, which would stop because of the hard water build-up which shut down the leaks. While I was doing this, my neighbor was drilling another well, because his had caved in. 18 dollars a foot, down to 90 feet. They ran through three water areas.

After going over and giving the driller some advice, jawing with a helper and my neighbor while we watched the drill push up sand and water, ... my neighbor gave me some advice about the BUSH growing near my water pump. BUSHes and wells don't go together very well, he assured me. ... I headed back over to my place. I go in and make some calls to New York.

"Oklahoma! What are you doing calling us? From Oklahoma?"

"Volunteering on the phone bank. Making sure you will vote tomorrow."

"Yes, we're planning on it."

"What do you think is the most important issue this year?"

"It's time to kick people out, when they start messing with Social Security. That affects me. You start messing with Social Security, it's time for heads to roll."

"I agree."

Then we talked a bit about weather and I wished him good luck. I didn't get to call as much as I wanted to, but I did quite a few, usually leaving word on answering machines.

Then I go back out and finish up the line. The old line is brittle, so I put the two splices in the old lines and cut the new hose with enough extra, so I could bend the last hitch in place. Tightened down and went out and turned on the water. PERFECTION. Now, the rest of my day will be spent on the bed with thermophore on my back.

Marcella comes home and we go to vote about 6:30 pm. I took Sassie hoping that she might get to vote, but alas, she was not registered. As we parked, an older couple who I know, but I can't remember their names were coming out the door. I had put an A FolkMaster Suzuki harmonica in my pocket. They said something about dogs not being able to vote.




"We're going to try anyway, because Sassy is special dog. She's the greatest Blues dog in the world. Would you like to hear her?"

"I have seen a dog on TV sing, but never one in person," the lady says.

"Okay, Sassy will sing, "This Land Is Your Land."

I pull out my harp and started playing. I was holding Sassy under my left arm. As I started playing, Sassy started singing big a loud. She looked up at the stars and sang like she had an audience of thousands. The couple couldn't help from laughing.

"Would you agree that she has to be the greatest Blues dog in the world?"

"You should put her on the Dave Letterman Show."

So we went in to vote. I have the dubious record of ruinning (spoiling) 2 ballots and taking 3 to vote - precinct record. The ladies were in there waiting for us. They wondered why we hadn't voted. First things, first, though. Sassie again sang for the ladies. One of the ladies said, "You should put her on utube.com. Good idea.


Sadly, it was true, they didn't have Sassy's name down as a registered voter.

The ballot had questions on the back side and the vote for people on the front side. I always vote for one Republican and I missed him, so I had to spoil a ballet. Got it right the second time.


There were rumors on the Internet that some Oklahoma machines counted backward, but that is absolutely not true. The Oklahoma ballot leaves a paper trail. When the ballot goes through, the voter can see the machine count the ballot.

Ours is a small precinct, so the number was, like, ... 134. So no waiting in line. The ladies had fun with Sassy, the greatest Blues dog in he world. I tried to get her to read the ballot, but she couldn't.

The Senate and the House is now controlled by the Democrats, just as most political pundits anticipated.

Me? I am still using the thermophore, trying to get over fixing the pipe. We can now get ready to go see Nathan and Eunice get married in North, whoops, South Korea. Eunice is already there and is sooo excited. Pray for me, because I cannot walk very far. I will take my cane. But ... that will be handled by another blog.

(C) Dale Hill 2006

And the lady from Alaska, couldn't believe she was getting called from Oklahoma. By the way, it is chilly up there.