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Sunday, May 13, 2012 - Woodward OK

BYOW, Blue West Boat Launch, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX, May 12, 2012
BYOW, Blue West Boat Launch, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, Fritch TX, May 12, 2012

BYOW

As I mentioned yesterday, Lake Meredith is nearly dry, and has been for years. Here's a view of the, ahem, lake from the Blue West boat launch.

I was going to stay here another night but got bored and moved on...

Night camp

Wal-Mart Supercenter in Woodward OK

Woodward Walmart Supercenter Store #150, 3215 Williams Ave, Woodward, OK 73801 - (580) 254-3331

Alex Can Spell

Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.

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