Outrageous snow

We went to see some friends near Winfield. The now blowing in the daylight was interesting, but after dark it was treacherous.
You could only see a few feet, so we had to go real slow. The now was blowing so hard you could hardly see. Then there were drifts now and then and they would come up suddenly because you could not see.
I saw some cars getting stuck.
Im not sure which was worse. Driving on a backroad and not being able to see much at all, but not having to worry about traffic, or being on 77, and being able to see a little better but having to deal with traffic.
Either way, it was blizzard like conditions even though there was not all that much snow.
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Christmas eve services

Here are the Christmas Eve. services for Arkansas City. Im sure there are more than these, but these are the ones I know of.  Might be fun to go to one that you have never been to before. :)


First Presbyterian, 7 p.m.
First Baptist, 6 pm.
First Southern Baptist 6 p.m.
Calvary Chapel, 6 p.m.
Mount Zion, 6 p.m.
First United Methodist Church, 7 p.m.
Central Christian Church, 6 p.m. Sphere: Related Content

Milestone

Last night this blog had its 100,000 th page view. That is a little different than individual visits. I think its the number of posts that have been clicked on. We have had about 30,000 individual visits to this blog since it started back in May.
The site does not have as many visitors, but it is growing. The blog is slowly shrinking and the site is slowly growing. I think that is one way readers can make their preference known.
Anyways, I do appreciate yall reading. It is kinda cool to reach a milestone like that.
So tell your friends about the site and the blog,
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Breaking stories

City Commissioner Mell Kuhn is in the ICU at the hospital in Arkansas City. He had sugery.
He is expected to make a full recovery.

In other breaking city news, the purchase of a new ambulance has been put on hold. Commissioner Dotty Smith said she wants to do some more research and see if the old one can be repaired.
More on both stories on the web site.
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Christmas story

The nativity scene is real popular this time of year. I like seeing all the variations. They are to some extent, based on the play that tells the Christmas story.
Its a great story. But the author has to take certain liberties with history and the bliblical account..
The classic story is interesting, but what may have actually happened is an interesting story too.
This is a more academic approach to the story, taking the biblical accounts into consideration, along with what is known about first-century life around Israel.
Anyways, here is the story. I wrote it several years ago for a publication, and it was in two parts, which is why it says "last week" a couple times. 
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cop notes

Cop notes have been posted for awhile. I thought I had posted about that already this morning. Strange things happen on the computer at times.
Christmas is just a few days away, so Ill probably be doing lots of holiday type things. (I dont mind using "Christmas" and "Holidays" interchangeably. I am not being politically correct. :) ) Sphere: Related Content

winter solstice

Today is winter solstice
shortest "day" of the year.
big among pagans. (pagan being a modern day religion based on an ancient religion, not meant to be derogatory.)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091221-winter-solstice-2009-first-day-winter-shortest-day-year.html Sphere: Related Content

morning, cop notes and amazing cleaning

The morning is slipping away on me.
Cop reports are posted, and I now have Winfield and County Sheriff notes as well. So you can get all your cop notes here, and get them earlier than you might other places.
Ok, enough shameless self promotion.
Well the wife is home, on break from school, and is in a cleaning frenzy of mythical proportions. And I cant help but get caught up in that a bit.
She had me washing the back of the stove. I didn't even know that was legal in most states. Then we had to move the refrigerator out so she could sweep under it, or where it had been. Ok, ill admit there was some dust under there, and some other unidentifiable small objects, but ... under the refrigerator????
Then we had to empty out the cabinets and she had me cleaning off containers and pots and pans that were in there. These are items that are in the back and have not been used in years. But we got them out, cleaned them off, and put them back in the nice clean shelves and cabinets.
Oh well, the place is almost clean enough.
It has to be. Our son is coming home from Holland for Christmas. He is in school there working on his doctorate in computer engineering. He is bringing his girlfriend with him - so this might be serious.
I may move the refrigerator out while she is here so she can see that it has been swept. Well for the effort it took, someone should see it don't you think? Sphere: Related Content

Link to another blog

Here is a blogpost about Tiger Woods. I liked this guy's writing. Be warned though, the language is pretty rough. If you don't like seeing lots of "4-letter" words, don't click on it.
Just thought id throw that disclaimer in there.
There are other posts of his that are also pretty good.
http://deadspin.com/5416948/chaos-in-tigerland-a-deadspin-investigation-into-the-sexual-habits-of-pro-athletes?skyline=true&s=i

Cop notes and more commentary coming soon.
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