Winter has certainly arrived, with a vengeance. There is this evening a thick layer of snow on my car. However it is forecast sunshine tomorrow, so hopefully it will melt it off before I have to go out.
I made the carrot soup last night and gingerly carried the crock pot down the porch steps, got it into the car, but there was a film of ice over it, and although it wasn't all that thick I saw I would have to get the de-icer to the windscreen. I sat in the car for a few moments, but I was so cold I just didn't have the energy to clear the windscreen, and get myself to Emmanuel. So carried the soup back indoors.
So haven't done a lot today. I picked up the computer on Friday from Staples, but it will have to go back. I can't post photos on the blog, so they will certainly have to put that right. And there are a couple of other issues.
When I was talking about the Election recently there were a couple of things I forgot to mention. One is that, when they have all these captive voters in the polling booths they don't just vote for political candidates for office, they also have a long laundry list of referenda to vote on as well (I don't know why they don't just let their elected representatives get on with making decisions, however not for me to reason why) One issue was whether or not to allow alcohol to be served on Sundays in restaurants in Shawnee, and that was defeated. I was very disappointed, not because I am desperate for a drink with my Sunday lunch, but there are a several restaurant chains I like, which have branches in nearby towns, but they won't open in Shawnee. These rigid little southern Baptists.
Another referendum in Oregon I found very curious. 941,000 people - and that was more people than voted for candidates, would you believe - turned out to reject giving driving licences to illegal immigrants!!! I can't figure that. By definition they shouldn't be there, so why are they applying for driving licences. I would have thought that being in the country illegally they would keep their heads down under the radar.
This day in history.....1907
Oklahoma became the 46th state in the Union.
The US had acquired Oklahoma from France in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
After the War of 1812, the U.S. government decided to remove Indian tribes from the settled eastern lands of the United States and move them west to the unsettled lands of Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska.
In 1828, Congress reserved Oklahoma for Indians and in 1834 formally ceded it to five southeastern tribes as Indian Territory.
Many Cherokees refused to abandon their homes east of the Missippi, and so the U.S. Army moved them west in a forced march known as the "Trail of Tears." A famous event everyone here knows about, even foreigners like me.
During the Civil War, most tribes in Indian Territory supported the South. With the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, the territory was placed under U.S. military rule.
White cattlemen and settlers began moving in, and after the arrival of the railroad in the 1870s, illegal white incursion into Indian Territory flourished. Most of these "Boomers" were expelled, but pressure continued until the federal government agreed in 1889 to open two million acres in central Oklahoma for white settlement. At noon on April 22, 1889, a pistol shot signaled the opening of the new land, and tens of thousands of people rushed to stake claims.
Those who had already made illegal entry to beat the starting gun were called "Sooners," hence Oklahoma's state nickname. The following year, the region was divided into Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory.
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