Than Maynard's Blog

First Tulips for 2013 Well, these are the first ones in my yard for 2013. I was surprised by them yesterday afternoon when I was checking out the flower beds and shrubs.   There is one more to bloom in this little group of color. We had a nice rain last night and some hail and they came through i...

Colt (and any other Gun Manufacturer): Oklahoma Loves You!   Feel free to stop by and stay a while here in Oklahoma. Heck, feel free to move your manufacturing plants here.  Bring your employees, we have plenty of room. Heck, we even have an open carry law! (Of course, the liberals said it would ...

Team Impact First Baptist Church 400 W Main Street  Purcell, OK March 27-31, 2013   You can check out Team Impact at their website.   What is Team Impact? From their website: Team Impact, some of the strongest men on the planet, travel around the world motivating young and old alike with their pe...

Monthly Housing Statistics from the Norman Board of Realtors All data compiled by RE STATS Inc from the AMLSOK   The majority of the data is very positive. The housing inventory or supply is now below 5 months, which typically signifies a seller's market. Closed Volume Sales was up an astounding ...

No Photos of Children Holding Guns Allowed! This is certainly interesting. An anonymous phone call to the NJ department of family services resulted in a visit from the NJ Department of Family Services and four NJ police officers. What caused the call? A photo posted to Facebook showing his 11 yea...

Wonder World Park, San Marcos, Texas As part of the park experience they had an animal park with a train ride through it. Since we were there we decided to take the ride. You could buy pellets to feed the deer , so we bought a bag of feed for each kid. (No I didn't get one.) This is right in the ...

Wonder World, San Marcos, Texas On the trip back from San Antonio we stopped at Wonder World Park in San Marcos, Texas. Inside the Wonder World Dry Cave listening to the tour guide From their website: Enjoy a guided tour and discover the nation’s only true example of an EARTHQUAKE-FORMED CAVE. Go...

Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio, Texas After the basic training graduation ceremony I took a few pictures while waiting for the bus to return us to our car. I knew most of the planes, since I built the majority of them as model airplanes while still a kid.   P-47 Thunderbolt   I don't remembe...

Graduation from Air Force Basic Training Micah Estep These are five of Micah's neices and nephews who came down to see his graduation ceremony. I was a great day to celebrate his new career. Micah, my wife Sally and my two boys Evan and Ryan.   It was a little chilly with the wind and the covered...

There were certainly some interesting dinosaurs in the renderings. Who knew the T-Rex had feathers! It never did on any of the movies I saw. 19 crazy critters from the cretaceous (I have no idea what happened to the site I linked, but the web address no longer works)  It does make me wonder home ...