Lika’s Log

We’re headed out cross country to Cherokee County, Oklahoma. My Three Stooges, aka my kids will be meeting us at Grandmas. Homemade bisquits and gravy for breakfast! Yes.

Where’s Tahlequah, Ok you ask? Do you have your maps out, boys & girls? LOL

Tahlequah, Ok is located about 30 miles south east of Muskogee, OK. Its also about an hour or so from the Arkansas border. You’ve heard of Okie from Muskogee. Although to get technical Merle Haggards (was it Merle Haggard) people was really from Council Hill which is south of Muskogee. Like between Muskogee and Checotah. You know Checotah, OK home of Carrie Underwood, Ms. American Idol. Her.

What do Carrie Underwood and I have in common? We’re both alumnis of Northeastern State University. Go Redmen. I assuming she graduated.

Tahlequah is like my second home. Its green country, hills, rivers, lakes and way different from Oklahoma City side. Its small town America. Actually it ain’t so small anymore. Use to be when I lived there. When I lived there, there was no McDonalds and SuperWalMart. When a small town gets a 24/7 WalMart, thats not small town anymore. Small towns ususally shut down at 10:0o p.m.

I find that Oklahoma people are not that much different then people from Hawaii in the sense of Aloha Spirit and friendliness. Yes there is the hardcore bilble thumping redneck good ole’bigot. But in general I’ve always found the people quite friendly. Or maybe its just me. LOL

The Oklahoma people I know will talkstory with anybody about anything and more then most will tell you some of the damndest family soap operas just standing in line at the post office. They will tell you all about their Granny and Momma an’dem, like information you did not want to know but you did ask first, “how’s your Momma an’dem?” And dang if you ain’t got the history of the past couple of decades. *L*

I get to hangout with the inlaws and kin folks. I get to go to SuperWalMart and just visit. In Tahlequah you don’t need to go house to house visiting kinfolks, you just go to WalMart on Christmas Eve and you end up visiting with most of the relatives eventually. *L*

I will be off line till probably Wednesday. In the mean time you all have a safe and great Merry Christmas.

Na ka uhane o kela e ho’ohau’oli i kou pu’uwai.
(May the Spirit of the season warm your heart.)

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