michael bought a rad fishing boat while we were away on our road trip and he took us out on it tonight for our first time. he drove us over to the dam and we caught a lovely sunset, but no fish. we need to buy our fishing licenses soon so we can catch some dinner!
we made it back to texas last night, which completes our east coast road trip. we’re gonna chill here in texas for a couple weeks and then figure out where to go next. another road trip? go live in another city for a couple months? we don’t really know.
while we’ve been gone, we’ve talked a lot about how we want to rework all of our portfolio sections and images, so tonight we started in on our music portfolio. we got a big piece of wood out of the woodshed and have been staple gunning our music images to it so we can see it all physically and really look at the portfolios as a whole. it’s kind of like creating a solid record instead of a hit single.
ziv was stapling the photos up, and i made him stop because he’d unintentionally created the shape of oklahoma. ironically, we bought an ‘oklahoma is ok’ license plate in stillwater which was setting on the (shuffleboard) table. and our getting-fluffy-again raja wanted to be a part of it all.
speaking of la roux, deerpeople did a sweet cover of ‘bulletproof’ at the house show the other night.
this morning we left stillwater and headed to edmond, ok to visit brady, camey, hailey and hunter. we hung out with them for the afternoon — played with the kids, watched some stray cats interacting on the porch, and did a walking tour of their yard which we’d never gotten to explore. we were even loaned some legit walking sticks which made it feel more like an adventure.
hailey just started school this week. isn’t she an adorable first grader?
our friend nathan hosts some fine oklahoma bands via his show series, ‘on‘. last night, mayola, deer people, and boom bang played a rowdy house show.
trekked down to guthrie, ok today. it’s a small town fueled by history (it used to be the capital of oklahoma!) there are lots of historical markers and even more antiques. it’s amazing to see how much old stuff there is everywhere. we were glad the stores we went in were huge so we could spend time inside instead of outside in the hot sun. but man, there’s a lot of junk in this world.
*last shot manned by adam
today, our girl hayley starts her life as a veterinary student. she got her white coat and stethoscope so she’s ready to go!
on our side of things, it’s funny to think about how she know’s she’ll be there for the next for years and we don’t even know where we’ll be in a month.
we spent today checking out stillwater’s finest — and wackiest — antique + thrift stores with adam. he’s moving into a new apartment and was looking for some stuff to fill it out. we all ended up finding some awesome, cheap treasures.
these are two of our favorite people to hang out with and we’re really glad to be able to spend the majority of this week with them here in stillwater. they’re two inspiring people who have both found what they love to do and are goin for it.
adam is a huge sports fan and can guaranteed school you on anything sports. broadcast journalism is right up his alley and he’s had internships and jobs as a sports writer, photographer/videographer, editor, and is killing it!
hayley has known since forever that she wants to be a veterinarian and has worked in lots of different facets of the animal industry from cats and dogs to apes and gorillas. she has a love for animals and it shows. we’re so proud of her for getting into vet school and excited to go to her white coat ceremony friday.
on top of all of that, they’re just awesome, fun people. we love these kids!
