Days Off - Sunday, Monday

10:00 church and then home for brunch.  We took a picture of this colorful tree on the way home. Worked on laundry again, dirty jeans and sweaty shirts from working.  We are appreciating our washer/dryer so much!  I can only do small loads, but I can do them without going somewhere else. The campground has a nice laundry room with 3 washers and dryers, but it is busy constantly and I cannot see if anyone is using it from where we are parked.  Many go to the laundromats, everything could be done quicker - I love being home and knowing the cleanliness of my own washer.  (There is a sign in our campground wash room that says - "washers are not to be used for dog bedding!")
We put together a shopping list, we are going to Bartlesville, OK tomorrow for sightseeing and errands.  Watched the KC Chiefs win, 8-0 now and watched part of the Packers/Vikings game before bed.

On Buckeye Street

Monday, we woke up to heavy fog, it hung around until after 10:00.  I woke up with a crink in my neck and a headache, had to stretch and ice to get rid of it.  Also woke to noise from the icemaker and discovered that a defrosting was in order, glad we were off today!  We worked on that and some other projects and then left for Bartlesville.  There were more fall colors in the trees, but they just did not show well with the overcast skies, we kept waiting for the sun to come out as the weatherman promised.  We drove to Caney, KS and then turned south for Oklahoma.  Drove south past Copan Lake, to Dewey then Bartlesville.  Our first stop was Lowe's, mission to buy a 5 gallon water cooler for drinking water.  Next stop, historic downtown Bartlesville.  The Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Center is located in the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe RR Depot.  One of the only 910 Engines is on display here, check out the Engineer!  (Astronaut and Engineer, who knew!!)

910 Engine

Engineer for a Day

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe RR Depot

After a nice leisurely lunch downtown at the Indian Coffee Company, we toured the Phillips 66 Museum.  Lots of interesting history regarding the Phillips Petroleum Company that was founded in Bartlesville. Did you know Phillips 66 engineers developed plastics and invented the Hoola-hoop?? The Company originated and owned many patents, for a time period they averaged one or more new patents a day.  Now the Company is known as Conoco-Phillips.
The Phillips mansion is available to tour in town, unfortunately only open on Wednesday-Saturdays, the days we are working.  Frank Phillips also had a ranch/museum, Woolaroc, outside of town we can tour, we need to check on those hours.
Bartlesville is a much bigger town than the others nearby, so we bought groceries and other needed items before we headed home.  It was a nice drive back, the sun peaked out more so we did see some fall colors, including more Osage Orange trees.

A tree downtown Bartlesville

                    

An older Phillips building                      

In the Phillips 66 museum

Bartlesville has 25 buffalo statues all over town, each decorated differently.
One here is decorated with OSU with boots on and the other, Amadeus, has musical notes for the Symphony Center.

Home to put away groceries, make lunches and get ready for work tomorrow.  They offered voluntary overtime, VOT, so we will be going in for an extra day this week.










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