About Caddo's Glenmar Ranch

~ Scissortail ~

Marilyn Monroe Moment

The Scissortail is Oklahoma's State Bird. I caught this one's
"Marilyn Monroe Moment" and tailwind recovery
on the perimeter of a pasture on GlenMar Ranch in Caddo, Oklahoma.

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We were celebrating Sue Simpson's 89th birthday at the Caddo Cafe when the tornado siren went off. Sue is the matriarch of GlenMar Ranch in Caddo.

The Caddo Cafe has a television in one corner, and we all looked up as the newsman announced that a tornado had touched down west of us in Tishomingo, and was moving to the east.

Tornado Alley

Living as they do in "Tornado Alley," Oklahomans take these violent storms seriously. You didn't hear anyone in Oklahoma on the news saying "I couldn't believe that this could happen. It was like a movie."

I expect that's why so few lost their lives compared to the rest of the country as it moved east through Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina.

Still, we were fortunate to escape the path of the tornado. Caddo (on the map below) is just behind the announcer's clip-on microphone on his tie.

It's a birthday none of us will forget!

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Friday afternoon the Colonel picked me up at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.

Tucson was cold when I boarded the plane at 6:45 a.m., much colder than it had been only a day ago. It was raining in Dallas when we landed, but as we drove up Interstate 75 and crossed the Red River into Oklahoma, the sky was clearing to the west. To the east, however, that squall line you see above was forming as the sun set in the west.

The Colonel, retired USAF, spent a career flying military transports around the globe. Looking out the window to the east, he commented that he'd never seen a cloud formation like this one. The eastern sky was painted by the rays of the setting sun. Here's the whole panorama.

On Saturday, we worked 150 cows, bulls and calves. Nobody got hurt, so it was a great day on the ranch.

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The crescent moon and the morning star were visible in the eastern sky when I started my morning walk at 5:55 a.m. today. There was something unusual in the way the clouds scudded past, pushed by a brisk westerly wind, and the sunrise was spectacular.

I'm used to a vivid pallette in my hometown of Tucson, Arizona, especially at sunset. The colors this morning here in Caddo, Oklahoma rival anything I've enjoyed at home.

Nothing materialized weatherwise, and by the time I was headed back down Hat Powell Road to GlenMar Ranch, the morning light in one of the pastures gave me this beautiful little paintbrush to share with you.

We all say that real estate is "location, location, location." Sometimes I think the location doesn't matter so much as what we bring to our day.

Here's hoping yours is utterly fantastic!

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