Volume 10 , Issue 5

Changeable Perry, OK (Weather & Gas)

"Golly, Linda! The gas prices dropped back down to $2.79.9 today (Tuesday Jan. 29)! Sunday the weather was warming back up and Monday it was 60+ degrees but the wind was very strong and then today (Tuesday) it changed directions and began to turn cold. At 11:30 this morning it was spitting small snow flakes. At noon the sun was again shining brightly but still high winds and cold. This evening the temperature was 38 degrees. Tomorrow (Wednesday) it's supposed to be back up to 60 degrees and then Thursday we're expecting rain changing to snow! And then it's supposed to be warm again for two days. WHAT NEXT?

This weeks newsletter is one of the best in quite some time (and they're always great). The HIGH winds are here again today Jan. 30, 2008) ... extremely high fire danger, and many acres have been burned in recent days (including quite a few in Beaver county).

What next? The weather folks here were correct (so far)!!! The winds were very high again yesterday (Jan. 30, 2008) and in the evening it was warm enough that I walked to choir practice without insulated coveralls or even a heavy jacket ... just an insulated vest. AND THEN THINGS CHANGED! This morning (Jan. 31, 2008) tiny ice pellets are covering the ground here in Perry, Oklahoma and I'm going to 'bundle up' to go work.

Speaking of work, I checked my web pages this morning and have sold a 'cream-top' milk bottle (remember those) from a dairy here in Perry for (what I consider) an outrageous price of $130 to someone in New York. I haven't checked my inventory lists yet but I'm guessing that this one probably cost me $30 and that I tacked on $100 just to see what questions I might get about it? Actually there's quite an interesting story about that particular dairy.

The Bud Warren ranch is one of the early-day ranches in our area and the dairy bottled their own milk (as many did back then). The milk was delivered in glass milk bottles that had been made by Liberty Glass Company in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. For many years, that company has made bottles for companies all over the U.S.A. During WWII the Warren Ranch converted a building in town (now used by Wheatheart Nutrition Site to prepare and serve low cost lunches to senior-citizens like me, on a daily basis) to process the milk into a powdery substance known as casein which was then sold to the military to be used in the manufacture of explosives. After the war, the Warren ranch returned to creating regular dairy products which were delivered to area grocery stores and to the public in general.

Bud Warren had begun dabbling in the raising of quarter-horses on the side and finally sold his dairy business (to Meadow Gold, I think) to concentrate on the quarter-horses and on the racing of them. He had his first champion named "Sugar Bars" and became rather famous with this winner, and then he got "LEO". There's a statue of Leo in a local park, and that statue was fully restored in recent years (for the Centennial). Leo's buried on the ranch but his progeny continued to win races. Then Bud Warren raced perhaps the most famous quarter horse of all ... Jet Deck. Jet Deck was murdered after I moved to Perry and the entire town mourned his loss. I don't know who poisoned the horse, possibly a rival horse owner who was jealous of the stud fees that the horse was bringing in. The ranch is still owned by the family. Bud Warren has passed away, but his son still owns the property. The son operates a local real-estate company and he and his wife live on a ranch east of Perry.

The tiny ice pellets have changed to snow flakes now and the streets are white.

Feb. 2, 2008... The weather wizards were exactly right this time. Wednesday was a warm 50+ degrees; Thursday was blowing snow (we had a 'white-out' before noon and wound up getting about 6" of snow on the ground); and then it melted Friday and the temperature range was from an early morning 13 degrees to an evening's 58 degrees (our area was the warmest in the state). The sun is shining brightly this (Saturday) morning. Friday evenings gas prices were at $2.86.9!

It stayed sunny all day. The weekend gas prices climbed to $2.89.9 and I presume they'll stay there until Monday. We're expecting warm weather for several more days, but it's supposed to rain about Tuesday and Wednesday, I think. Maybe that'll stop some of the grass fires. We had another one southeast of here this afternoon fought by at least 3 rural fire departments. " -- Roy K.
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