5/9/09 Altus OK

5/9/2009 Altus OK Temp at 8:30 is 62*F

A front went through during the night and it turned cool and cloudy here. Per agreement, we sat around the trailer until joining Randy & AM at their place. We had a *big* breakfast there while chatting and watching the dog, the cat, and the bird. Sam dashed in and out.

AM & Randy are moving, and per the terms, leaving the furniture. So they're in the market for furniture and asked if we'd mind. We said we'd love to do that, so we drove to Lawton (60 miles) to shop there. The whole 60 miles was flatter than a flounder.

We went through three furniture stores looking at living rooms, futons (for Sam's room), and beds. We (O&D) came away with an idea or two for our house, but Randy & AM may have been more confused at the end of the day. They're going to make diagrams of the rooms and put in blocks representing furniture pieces and get an idea of the people-flow through the main rooms. Then they'll look again.

We took a back route returning to Altus that leads first through Meers, an old stagecoach stop "back when". There's a run-down concrete-wood place there that does Meersburgers - a huge, non-fat, piece of ground beef (1/2 lb or so) on an oversized bun. Their house beer comes in 22 oz bottles and is quite good. We had Meersburgers, and shared toothpicks (jalapena strips in batter, deep-fried). Then we shared a big dish of peach and cherry cobbler. All quite good and very filling.

We continued back to Altus through the federal game reserve. Dusk was fast approaching, so many animals were out feeding close to the road. We saw bison, longhorn cattle, a half-grown racoon, several deer with fawns, several groups of elk, and a pair of javelina. We drove past the prairie dog colony, but there were two coyote in it, so the dogs were way underground. Leaving the reserve we came on a huge bison scratching his neck on a fence post.

R & AM needed to stop at WallyWorld on the way to their house, so we did. They bought a few things, then we went to their place. We were pretty tired by that time, so we bid each other good-bye in the yard.

Back to the trailer and settled in. We've had a somewhat unusual but thoroughly enjoyable visit here. Lots of fun and many laughs...