yeah, it's me again

okay......I promise not to always do so many posts in one day, but I'm attempting to learn this new skill...(they say that's a good thing, y'know, like taking fish oil and stuff) so bear with me.  we just returned from a lovely sunday afternoon drive/date to the Tidal School Winery in Drumright, site of an oil field discovery that exceeded the yield of the California Gold Rush.  The Tidal School was built to serve the needs of the children of the oil field workers and, after it fell into disrepair, although it was of historic significance, it was going to be demolished.  The current owners bought it for $1 with the stipulation that they'd have to turn it into something of significance.  And what could be more significant than a working winery (buy local, right?), where you can have a personalized tour and hear the story, see the original flooring, pictorial history, enjoy tastings in their tasting room and a glass of your favorite with a cheese/fruit/cracker tray, then walk among among the vines with your beloved under these soft september skies?  We learned that they've planted rose bushes at the end of each row of vines because plant predators will attack roses before they'll attack anything else....so they're kind of a barometer in the garden.  Met a plant we'd never seen before-called a moonflower-which only blooms at night.  Fun way to spend this Sunday afternoon.....now we're ready for some football!

'repurposing' a school into a winery.....we're good with that;)

http://www.tidalschool.com/history.htm

this afternoon we're off to the historic tidal school winery in drumright for a tour, a taste, a cheese tray and a 'take-home' of some souvenir wine glasses (I almost had some allieration going on there!) which I'm sure will be 'up for grabs' since we've been doing some 'downsizing' of cabinet contents lately, and actually, have our 'go-to' glasses to which we're unapologetically partial.......

we always take journals with us on our journeys....for the recording, remembering, and reflecting of/on this and that....probably began on our honeymoon (may 27-30, 1971) to dallas....still have that lovely 'scrap' of notebook paper on which we recorded the TOTAL cost of our adventure....wait for it....wait for it.......$147.39!  Not much reflecting (just expenses) recorded on that one, but we've refined the process since then......this trip even has a three-ring binder and an actual travel journal with so much information about travel already(so, if we run out of things to talk about~not likely~ we can discuss the median amounts of rainfall and temps in major cities around the world....we'll see how that works out;)

we have 'lift off'

'the view from here' has arrived......seems like a way we can 'share life' with you while we're gone these next few weeks.....and, if anyone's interested, it might could evolve into a family blog.....a place for the eight of us (and all the 'littles' to share back and forth).  But, for now, we'll just blog about our days 'on the road' and share some of scenery as we journey into the fall.

We're not the only ones 'journeying', y' know.  The monarchs are on their pilgrimage from places north to Mexico and we read the other day that hummingbirds migrate on the backs of geese!  I was filling the 'tweeter totter' twice a day there for awhile and now it's stayed full for a week with only an occasional visitor, so I guess that migration has begun, as well.

And when you think about it, the very word 'journey' is packed with so much meaning (words ARE puzzles, y'know).....you can 'journey' into new experiences/new seasons....and we're all doing that right now, so writing about our journeys doesn't necessarily have to correspond with miles travelled......just a thought.