T Stands For Museum and Treats

Today we're going back to the Butler County Museum some of you may remember from a couple of Sundays ago.  For this post, I saved the photos in their nearly original state, hoping my blog doesn't blow up as a result.

Let's start at the gate and enjoy a few of the examples of oil riggings.

Some of you may live near oil fields and oil equipment,

while others may have never seen the equipment that is used to pump crude oil from the ground.

My first love is science, and I truly appreciate this dying industry that has fueled (yes, pun intended) the world economy for many decades.  It's all so unique and fascinating to me, even though I believe we should be less dependent on oil and more dependent on other (renewable) fuel sources, such as wind and solar power.

As I explained before, the museum was partly about Butler County and El Dorado specifically, and part was on the oil museum.  My friend Sally was thrilled to see the various displays of school memorabilia.

She seemed to read every word and take in every display.

We both appreciated all the memorabilia the museum had collected.

This first room covered the early school days of the county.

I took the opportunity to test out my new camera.

I took two photos of this music staff liner, so I'm not sure which one I showed before.  This time, the photos are far clearer, though.

I wonder what class (grade) this photo represented from 1953-4.    I can't believe it represented the entire school, since most of the children looked to be the same age.

I wish I'd gotten a better shot of whatever was shown from 1935, but I was just trying to learn my zoom function that was working quite well, I thought.

Hmm!  It looks like the photo at the top has slipped a bit.

My friend Sally said she remembers this school that was dedicated in 1964.  I tried to find it on the internet, but all I could find was

this concept drawing for the new high school.  This photo was taken from the blog of the construction company in charge of the project.  A far cry from the dated aerial view I took a photo of.

After Sally and I toured this and another museum, we stood in line for

a Dairy Queen treat.  Sally had been wanting a Peanut Buster Parfait for days, so we stopped and I treated her to one.  I had never had a Dairy Queen (honest), and I'd never heard of any of the things they were selling.  Sally suggested I get a Blizzard.  I asked if it was like a slushy, and she told me it was made with ice cream, so I picked chocolate cheesecake.  Now I know why I've never been to Dairy Queen.  What you see here cost me nearly $11.00 (USD).  And that was just the appetizer, because after we ate those,

we worked our way to the El Dorado Burger King, where we both had water to wash down our sandwiches.  It was a fun day, though, and both museums were free since we had Museum Day tickets we downloaded from the Smithsonian web site.

Incidentally, El Dorado is pronounced El Dough-Raid-Oh, not El Dough-Rod-Oh.  Kansas has to be different.  After all, our Big and Little Arkansas Rivers are pronounced Ar-Kansas.

What story do you have to share today?  Remember, it doesn't have to be from Tuesday, but you need to link here in order for us to stop by so we can share your story.  And it doesn't matter if you paid a fortune for whatever is in your cup/mug/jar/bottle, or if you got it from your water tap.  It doesn't matter if you show a drink, as long as you relate the story to something T related, such as books, art, greeting cards, or a gift.  Be creative, be imaginative, be happy.  But be sure to join the T fun.