Volume 8 , Issue 11

Duchess Corner

This NW Okie and her infamous Pugs (Duchess & Sadie) waited for a sunshine break in the snow that fell last weekend to begin their venture east to NW Oklahoma.

That day came Tuesday as they venture from SW Colorado along the Kit Carson Trail through Colorado, southern Kansas and on into Northern Oklahoma via Medicine Lodge, Kansas where we drove by Carrie Nations home and Medicine Lodges Stockade. NO! We did not get a photo of Carrie Nation's residence. Not yet, anyway!

It was hard leaving our beautiful, much needed snow, moisture in the valley & mountains of the Colorado Rockies. BUT... we thought maybe we could tow some of that moisture to the dry, windy plains of the heartland prairies. Thursday we did see some cooler, somewhat wetter weather here in NW Oklahoma, but not much yet!

We usually start putting our OkieLegacy newsletter together on Thursday, Friday and finishing up early Saturday morning. BUT... around "High Noon," Thursday, some highway construction workers 3-1/2 miles south of Alva, OK, working on Hwy 281 cut our fiber-optic cables. So... for most of the day and into the evening Alva was cut-off from the outside world, except for a few Cell phones that could get in and out. Even the DSL internet was interrupted for this NW Okie. We were concerned that "The OkieLegacy Ezine" was NOT going to be published this week.

Whew! We wokeup Friday morning to check out our email and laptop browser to find some relief. Yes! There was a connection ... Finally! So here we are again! You can NOT keep this NW Okie and her weekly OkieLegacy ezine from reaching it's subscribers! There is always light (and connection) at the end of the tunnel of fiber-optics!
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