Kingfisher, Oklahoma

Hello to everyone---
Curtis and I had some free time this afternoon and decided to drive to Kingfisher and check out all the flooding damages to the town. Know matter how much you see on TV and in pictures it just doesn't do it justice when you see it for real. My heart goes out to anyone that has destruction to their property. Even though this is what we do now, it made me feel like we were some kind of reporters trying to check everything out. The one thing that was noticeable, neighbors helping neighbors in the residential areas. A real sick feeling when you see someone actually having the water hose in their house and literally spraying the floors to get the mud out of the house. One lady had ripped up all of their sub flooring had it leaned against the fence outside and spraying it off to put it back in. I wasn't able to get a picture of this, but it gives the realistic feeling to what a flood would be like. We spoke with the lady that lived in the white house (picture shown with carpeting draped over porch) and she told me that their house didn't get it to bad, they just had 2 inches all the way thru their home. The brick home shown in the picture with the furniture out front had 11 inches in it. The man told us that everything was gone---- The main street looked as if nothing had ever happened, even though the river ran right thru town.
Well, hope to have more later---Until then
Curtis and Lavon

As you all know, Curtis and I (with Buster of course) have been in Oklahoma for the past 6 weeks. It has been a very fun and adventurous time for us. I decided to start this blog, for everyone to keep up with us a little better. I have enjoyed watching and seeing so many people thru their blogs and thought why not????
I will try my best to keep things posted on a timely basis---I would love to have your comments, that seems it will keep us connected.
We left Muleshoe on July 15th headed to Enid, Oklahoma.......not knowing what to expect. We actually stayed in Enid for the first month and then moved to Blackwell, Oklahoma to further the work in Flooded Wheat crops. There is literally no wheat left from the May floods that settled in about 100 miles radius. We have personally seen 50-60 different farmers and worked paperwork to numerous to mention. I help Curtis mostly in late evenings, I do ride with him to the farms, but I set patiently waiting for us to gather up and go the the next claim. During my patient time, I have read 20 books. It has been years since I could say that I have taken the time to read, read and read some more. Found several new christian authors that I love now (thanks to the Proverbs women) and have found out that you can go to any library in any given town and purchase books at a very low cost.
We have had some free time per say---the third weekend we were here, we traveled to Wichita, KS to visit Curtis's Aunt Marcia and her girls and grand children. Had a great visit. We also visited Inman, KS to see friends that we hadn't visited with for over 15 years. Was a short visit but one that we loved---got to reminisce a WHOLE lot. Did both of us a lot of good!
The next weekend we traveled to Duncan, OK and attended the Rhodes family reunion held at my cousins NEW home. It was awesome seeing cousins and more cousins that I hadn't seen in 20 years---and meeting all the new married couples. My dads family has never been one for many reunions, we actually tried to get this reunion up and going about 3 years ago----taken that long to get into a routine but scheduling is now every August----Had another great time!
We have visited several churches and met some really awesome people. In Enid, while walking, I had a lady run out of her house and stop me---she breeds Boston Terriers, and wanted to meet Buster---but decided I would do. She was an awesome christian lady that took me in, invited me to their ladies bible studies held every Wednesday morning--So I chose to attend. It was an awesome experience--not only learning about the book of Daniel--but meeting great people and seeing such an historical home of Enid. The owners and host of the home was none other than Mark Price, retired NBA player for the Cleveland Cavaliers, but did play for the Dallas Mavericks.
Maybe I haven't bored you to much---and if I did--you didn't ever read this far--but I invite you back to read some more of the Oklahoma experience----Until Then---
Curtis and Lavon