Well, I've been meaning to start a blog for several years now, and never seemed to find the time to do so. What I'd like to do is to just throw out some miscellaneous posts from time to time and see what develops.
The blog name, EufaulaCollegeofLoafers, comes from a sign that someone had posted in a second-story window in an old building in downtown Eufaula, Oklahoma, many years ago, advertising it as the home of the Eufaula College of Loafers. (If you've ever been through Eufaula, you know that the downtown area is really just a couple or three blocks long.) My grandparents lived there in Eufaula and the surrounding area for many years, and we grandkids would go down there and run around in the woods, down at the lake, and generally all over the place whenever our mom would take us down there.
My grandparents passed away almost 20 years ago, but I still have fond memories of the town and the area in general. It's a pretty typical small town, somewhere around 4,000 or 5,000 now (about 3,500 back when I was growing up), with some distiguished football players from there (the Selmon brothers and J.C. Watts, specifically). Oklahoma's largest lake, Lake Eufaula, takes its name from the town, and the town runs right down to the water's edge. It's hot and humid in the summer, and can get pretty chilly in the winter. Lots of trees cover the rolling hills that surround the area, and of course there's good fishing and some pretty good hunting, too. The town puts on a pretty good fireworks display on July 4th, especially if you go out on a boat in Eufaula Cove to watch it, with the fireworks reflecting across the water.
Anyway, I didn't create this to blog about Eufaula (though the Wikipedia article doesn't do the town justice); the Eufaula College of Loafers thing is just something that's been stuck in my head for years, and I had to come up with some sort name, and all the better ones were taken.
