{"id":61584,"date":"2018-06-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=61584"},"modified":"2018-06-14T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:00:00","slug":"a-petting-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/a-petting-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Petting Zoo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a little over a week ago we returned to <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/colorado\/\" title=\"View all articles about Colorado here\">Colorado<\/a> by way of HWY 11 \u2013 64 \u2013 287 \u2013 94 \u2013 21- 84 \u2013 etc.\u2026 yep the slow route home but we had some business to take care of in out of the way places so it caused the travel by \u201cThe <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/old\/\" title=\"View all articles about old here\">old<\/a> standard Route\u201d.&#160;&#160;&#160; When we lived out here a long <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/time\/\" title=\"View all articles about time here\">time<\/a> ago we traveled that route about as much as we traveled any.&#160; 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Along the way we had stopped in Cherokee and then in Alva to grab a quick bit to eat.&#160; In Alva there were several building murals and I only grabbed this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6081.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-SAM_6081\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-SAM_6081\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6081_thumb.jpg?resize=626%2C160&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"626\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in the <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/day\/\" title=\"View all articles about day here\">day<\/a> nearly every mid sized town must have had a dirt track\u2026<\/p>\n<p>On the way out of Alva we passed \u201cThe Petting Zoo\u201d\u2026 yep way out in the wild west they have such things..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6091.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-SAM_6091\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-SAM_6091\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6091_thumb.jpg?resize=629%2C543&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"629\" height=\"543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think we would have totally missed it but for the \u201cfake\u201d zebra.&#160; But not all the stuff here is fake\u2026 although the sign said closed so we didn\u2019t venture in to check out what other strange stuff (for Oklahoma) was in there we did spot a few in the pasture..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6094.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-SAM_6094\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-SAM_6094\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6094_thumb.jpg?resize=626%2C470&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"626\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hard to tell about this one as I couldn\u2019t get it to turn the right way but there appears to be the lost brother or sister on the neck of the middle black cow\u2026 at least the last half of it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6095.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-SAM_6095\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-SAM_6095\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6095_thumb.jpg?resize=627%2C471&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"627\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it might be a YAK but not real sure, might just be funny horns but beyond the ?YAK? are \u2026. Camels\u2026 oh boy now we\u2019re talking\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6089.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-SAM_6089\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-SAM_6089\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6089_thumb.jpg?resize=633%2C476&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"633\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There also were a big herd of donkeys, miniature horses and other smaller versions\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6084.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-SAM_6084\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-SAM_6084\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6084_thumb.jpg?resize=624%2C174&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"624\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t stick around to get better pictures as they truckers seem to use this route a lot and they don\u2019t care if your in the way or not\u2026 so we moved on\u2026 next stop Guymon..<\/p>\n<p>Since we lived in Perryton a while this was not abnormal but all the same when you pass so many <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>old<\/strong> farms that were really built up and now deserted you wonder what happened?&#160; Most of it I think is the farmers across our country have done too good a job of working themselves out of a job.&#160; Production rates have increased to a point that it takes very few to produce what is needed at a price that they can make a living so they either had to get bigger to maintain a level of income or sell out to those that did get bigger\u2026 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6096.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-SAM_6096\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-SAM_6096\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6096_thumb.jpg?resize=640%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in the <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/day\/\" title=\"View all articles about day here\">day<\/a> I would <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/guess\/\" title=\"View all articles about guess here\">guess<\/a> that to be a fair sized farm, all appears empty or rusting away and the house is already gone.. Of course in the panhandle this farmer of history built his storage <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/line\/\" title=\"View all articles about line here\">line<\/a> to be his windbreak for winter.&#160; not nearly enough water to plant big tree windbreaks, and beyond that it would take too much of his <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>time<\/strong> to maintain trees so\u2026 <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/line\/\" title=\"View all articles about line here\">line<\/a> up the barns, and grain bins to form that windbreak \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>We trekked on west then meandered up north and had dinner in Lamar at the <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>old<\/strong> favorite spot\u2026 When we lived there we were always short on money\u2026 just paying the house took about 2\/3 of my monthly pay check so we conserved and our big night out might be Friday and a <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/trip\/\" title=\"View all articles about trip here\">trip<\/a> to Taco Johns!\u2026 ha! back then it had no seating, was about the size of a good truck trailer\u2026 maybe 8 or 10 ft. wide and about 30 ft. long.&#160; Wish I had pictures of that <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>old<\/strong> place, but now they are only in my mind but I see it clear as day\u2026 even see the steamed front window where 5 or 6 of us were waiting to pick up our order.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>We took our food this <strong class='StrictlyAutoTagBold'>time<\/strong> and went off to the park just east of there\u2026 even though it said it was 95 out we found it pretty nice under the trees in that park with a welcome small breeze\u2026 We commented that we wouldn\u2019t be setting out in that temp back in Stillwater.&#160; because along with the 95 temp you would get 75 to 95 humidity and miserable conditions\u2026 It was a pleasant stop but we needed to move on as it was near dark and I hate driving in the dark anymore\u2026 so off we flew up to catch the back run into <a class=\"StrictlyAutoTagAnchor\" href=\"https:\/\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/tag\/colorado\/\" title=\"View all articles about Colorado here\">Colorado<\/a> Springs.<\/p>\n<p>At the big junction of Punkin Center I grabbed these pictures\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6099.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1-SAM_6099\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1-SAM_6099\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ishmaels.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1-SAM_6099_thumb.jpg?resize=640%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gee, I didn\u2019t know that was a <strong 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