Than Maynard's Blog

Monthly Housing Statistics from the Norman Board of Realtors All data compiled by RE STATS Inc from the AMLSOK   The majority of the data is very positive. The housing inventory or supply is now below 5 months, which typically signifies a seller's market. Closed Volume Sales was up an astounding ...

No Photos of Children Holding Guns Allowed! This is certainly interesting. An anonymous phone call to the NJ department of family services resulted in a visit from the NJ Department of Family Services and four NJ police officers. What caused the call? A photo posted to Facebook showing his 11 yea...

Wonder World Park, San Marcos, Texas As part of the park experience they had an animal park with a train ride through it. Since we were there we decided to take the ride. You could buy pellets to feed the deer , so we bought a bag of feed for each kid. (No I didn't get one.) This is right in the ...

Wonder World, San Marcos, Texas On the trip back from San Antonio we stopped at Wonder World Park in San Marcos, Texas. Inside the Wonder World Dry Cave listening to the tour guide From their website: Enjoy a guided tour and discover the nation’s only true example of an EARTHQUAKE-FORMED CAVE. Go...

Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio, Texas After the basic training graduation ceremony I took a few pictures while waiting for the bus to return us to our car. I knew most of the planes, since I built the majority of them as model airplanes while still a kid.   P-47 Thunderbolt   I don't remembe...

Graduation from Air Force Basic Training Micah Estep These are five of Micah's neices and nephews who came down to see his graduation ceremony. I was a great day to celebrate his new career. Micah, my wife Sally and my two boys Evan and Ryan.   It was a little chilly with the wind and the covered...

There were certainly some interesting dinosaurs in the renderings. Who knew the T-Rex had feathers! It never did on any of the movies I saw. 19 crazy critters from the cretaceous (I have no idea what happened to the site I linked, but the web address no longer works)  It does make me wonder home ...

The Sequester is complete Baloney! The federal government posted 400 jobs on Monday, which was the first full business day after the sequester went into effect. If we don't have money and are needing to furlough people, doesn't it make more sense to just not higher anyone else? The government cut...

PURCELL PUBLIC LIBRARY March Events   Program Schedule for March, 2013   Story Times for Children 5 and Under Every Friday morning at 10:30 am Come and Go Crafts for Children & Families Saturday, March 9th, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm   Salt Watercolors Tabletop Gaming for Teens Mondays and Fridays 3:30 pm...

LEXINGTON 89’ER FESTIVAL Lexington 89’er Festival will kick off with the opening of the Great Plains Amusements carnival on Thursday April 18th. The carnival will be in town until Sunday April 21st. Make plans to join us for the all day celebration on Saturday April 20th. There will be something ...