Oklahoma Facts
Armadillos & possoms sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air. There are 10,000 types of spiders and all 10,000 live in Oklahoma plus a couple no one's seen before. Possums will eat anything. Armadillos love to dig holes under everything. Raccoons will test your crop of vegetables for you. If it grows-- it sticks to you-- if it crawls-- it bites! You cannot find a country road without a curve from corner to corner. A tractor is NOT an all-terrain ve-he-kel. They do get stuck. Oklahoma has 6 seasons: In Oklahoma a raindrop is the size of a bucket of water. It is not a shopping cart----it is a buggy. Graduating 1st in your class means you left in the 8th grade. People actually grow and eat okra. Okies really don't have an accent. When the world ends, spiders and grasshoppers will survive. When you live in the country, you don't have to buy a dog. City people drop them off at your gate in the middle of the night. The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first couple of weeks. When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to go to the doctor. "Fixinto" is one word. The word "dinner" is confusing. There's only lunch and then there's supper. "Backards and forards" means, "I know everything about you." "'Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning, "Did you eat?" You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is ----- you work until you're done or it's too dark to see.
Spring - Feb 16 to April 15
Summer - April 16 to July 15 (temp 90 to 98 degrees)
Super Summer - July 16 t o Sept 10 (temp 100 to 115 degrees)
Summer - Sept. 11 to Oct 1 (temp 90 to 98 degrees)
Fall - Oct 2 to Dec. 1
Winter - Dec. 2 to Feb 15
The wind blows at 90+ MPH from Oct. 2 'til June 25, then it stops totally until Oct 2.
Originally published November 14, 2002.
