The Oxford Mill Oxford Kansas

The old Oxford mill
Traveling West from Winfield Ks. on highway 160 you will come to the small town of Oxford Kansas.

Located on the Arkansas River this quaint little Kansas Town is full of charm and History.
The Old Grist Mill built in 1849 sets on West Bank of the river.

Although the Old Mill is not used to mill the grain the local farmers would bring,
the Old mill has a new life and purpose.

The Owners of the Mil, Wallace Champing and Hal Ross completely restored the mill back in 1988-89.
The restoration was completed as they replaced most of the support posts and beams, new joists and flooring, and refurbished Head House.

The old mill now serves as a popular tourist attraction , with many visitors every year.
The owners have opened a restaurant in the newly remodeled Head House.

So the next time you are wanting someplace  to go Oxford Kansas is just a short drive from Wichita Kansas,

Just head south on the the turnpike, exit at Wellington the go East until you arrive in Oxford, there are signs directing you to the mill.

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Playing the Guitar Gifted Granddaughter Teaches herself to play the guitar.

My wife and I have been blessed with 19 grand kids And numerous great grand kids.

Each and everyone of them are special and have talents that only god could have given them.

I won't go into to all of that today.
I want to brag on one of the girls Several years ago she set out to learn how to play the guitar.

Now bear in mind her and her brother and sister were members of the Campus High school band.

They all have the music gene in them, I guess their great grandma Russel give it to them.

Her brother Plays drums And her sister plays a variety of musical instruments.
Her sister can set at the piano and play pretty much anything by ear.

One day while she was visiting us she brought her guitar that she received for Christmas or her birthday, don't remember which. She at down and started playing this was several years ago.

Anyway here is the first song the she played  for us.

Now music comes easy to these kids, Not so much for a lot of people

There are plenty of on line course to teach Music the one found to be really helpful
and they offer a five day course for free is Guitar Ninja

Cowboys and Cowgirls Rounding up The cows on the 5S Ranch Sedan Kansas

Every spring the cowboys and cowgirls gather at the 5S ranch to round up the Cows and Calves.

They do this for two reasons;

One to vaccinate the animals, and to brand the spring calves.


It takes a good team of cowboys and girls and good horses to get the job done.this is a very interesting process and I was fortunate to be invited to take pictures I hope you enjoy this look  into a day in the cowboy's life

The Kansas Flint Hills Long lost memories of a time gone by

My travels thought the Flint Hills of South East Kansas.

We traveled to Wichita Ks. Friday June 22 to pick up the much needed new wall oven
We Live in the heart of the Flint Hills, in the quiet little town of Sedan Kansas,
This trip to Wichita took us up Highway 99 to Hwy 400, we  touch the north side of Moline Ks.
then thru the small town of Howard Ks., Continuing North on 99 heading towards hwy 400 we came upon this old stone house located about 3 miles south  of Hwy 400 on 99

One has to wonder what stories lie inside the walls of these old houses

this one has long since been abandoned 

and now the property is a cattle lot.

the grass has been cut, probably going to get baled up into hay for winter feed.

We walked around the old house 

It was very interesting to look at.

these old stone houses will stand the test of time 

this one the roof is going bad and has a lot of holes in it so it won't be long before 

the roof is totally gone 

You can purchase prints of this old house

Right here

http://johnpeterson.passgallery.com/-kansasprairie

Red Buffalo Ranch Sedan Ks.

The Red Buffalo Ranch, Sedan Kansas.

I am good friends with Mary Kurtis, Daughter of Bill Kurtis, owner of the Red Buffalo Ranch, Located West of Sedan Kansas.

Mary owns and operates the Red Buffalo Gift shop in Sedan, located on the corner of Main and Chautauqua Street.

I was visiting with Mary one day and mention i would like to go to the ranch and photograph Some Buffalo, well it so happened the ranch hand Shane, who is the cowboy  in charge of the buffalo was in the store, so we arraigned
to meet up and see the Buffalo, that was last year, life got in the way and I didn't make it.

Now fast forward a year and here I am right in the middle of a herd of Buffalo. how cool is that?

We meet up on county road 12 Friday morning,

I followed Shane to the curve in road where I parked my truck and got in his truck to continue on.

We drove about another mile to the gate,

after entering the massive pasture we continued on about a mile into the heart of the Flint hills.

Shane would stop and show me the different typed of grass that lives on the prairie. We continued on until we were on top of the hill over looking the lush green  pastures.
Shane said now look over there across the valley to the other hill side and there they were.
A heard of around  60 free range Buffalo.

 All of the Ranchers have a unique way of herding animals; Shane started honking the horn 
on his Ford Super Duty 3500, after a couple of minutes the buffalo started moving  they started bunching up and running towards us, the small dots started to get bigger and bigger until
they were standing all around the truck.

Before we found the Buffalo Shane laid down three bags of Pellets in a long row, he said they can smell the pellets, and sure enough they followed the truck back to the area where the pellets were,
thats were it became interesting they almost stampeded to get their share of pellets.

This is what a raging herd of Buffalo looks like

 All in all we spent around three hours with the buffalo.

Shane was a great tour guide, after we left the pasture he drove around the entire property which consists of around 3000 acres.

Blue Tick Puppy talking back at me

Heading to the fishing hole with Paul, we stopped at the store to pick up something

I stayed in the Truck ( the Dodge Ram 1500) with the puppy

This is  6 week old Blue tick Hound dog puppy so it is naturally curious 

and wants to chew on everything in sight

The Blue tick puppy started chewing on the seat and console so 

I reached over to stop him and the dog started talking back to me

I thought it was funny, I HOPE YOU DO TO.

Dallas Texas,

Road Trip to Dallas Texas 05-11-2018

Took a little road trip to Dallas Texas 

over the weekend

Our Grand son and his Fiance'e 

live in Dallas, she owns and operates a dance studio

Preston Hollow Dance, Dance studios

This is Belinda Dancing at her 2016 Dance Recital

We attended her 2018 Dance Recital this past weekend
that was the main reason we  made the trip.

 Grandson is the co-owned of Paperlyte, a Media 

Production company specializing in live Streaming, video, documentary, and

commercial content as well as project management.

We are very proud of both of them 

It Was Fast trip, we left Friday Morning 

Dove East on 166 highway to 75 South 

Turned South and headed to Texas

First stop was QTrip in Bartlesville Oklahoma for Gas 

Then on thru Tulsa going South on Hwy. 75 

Rolled thru a lot of little towns 

on the way just kinda poking along at 70 miles per Hour. 

We arrived at Our grandsons House around 6pm.

We went out for dinner came back to the house and enjoyed

a glass of Wine and then to bed.

Our granddaughter traveled with us
she has never been to Dallas
so it was a treat for her.
One of the things she wanted to do
was to visit Pioneer Park and see the herd of steers.
I have been there before but it's still a treat to visit again.

If and when you are ever in Dallas this is a must see
attraction and it's free

TO BE CONTINUED