Garber OK

Garber Ok is surrounded by Farm Land.

Thank You to the American farmer and their families - their efforts supply the nutrients that sustain our healthy lifestyles. Weather your a vegetarian or a carnivore - before the food is placed on your plate, even before it gets to the market a lot of hard work has taken place on the other end of the food chain.

Before dawn a dairy farmer is tending to the cows. Moo juice for you and me, who likes ice cream? Can't make ice cream with out eggs, cackle berries, rooster bullets, what ever you call them thin shelled ovals, they add to a whole bunch of delightful dishes. And with cheese please.

Long before I drag my lazy-tired ass out of bed in the morning a farmer has already put in a few hours of effort. Those of us lucky enough to have the option of what we start our day with have the difficult decision (grn) of; a cup of Joe, tea, a tall glass of milk, juice, hot or cold cereal, -- maybe a little fruit too - "thank you".

How about eggs over easy, sunny side-up or scrambled, ham, bacon, or sausage, hash-browns, or grits, biscuits with cream gravy or red-eye? Breakfast taco's, bagels, or cinnamon rolls to go - a farmer touched one of those ingredients. A stack of buttermilk pancakes, french toast or a Belgian waffle with maple syrup with hot-links K.O.'s me every time.

  A hearty bloody Mary or a mimosa may start your day - however, whenever or wherever you start your day, those farmers around the World are doing their jobs so we have the strength do ours.

A great big thanks to those men and women who; plant the seeds, toil the land, tend the crops, suffer through droughts and pray for the rain. Care for the livestock through freezing temperatures, work the fields, and mend the fences along the way. Their daily routine of chores under a blazing hot sun or in the freezing rains it gets done. Nope, it ain't no nine to five job and there ain't no quitting time.

Yes ma'am my hats off to all those farmers; here, there, and yonder.

Sincerely Thx ;-),

Visitors from around the World.

Greetings to our visitors from up there, down there, over there, and over yonder. Howdy - welcome to our rural corner of Garfield County, Oklahoma, America. "Come visit us in person".

Garber, Ok the website is being visited by people from all over this great land of ours, as well as folks from across the big blue waters. Our International visitors have come from South America, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Uganda, the United Kingdom and Vietnam. Right hear in the USA, Garber, Ok (the website)  has been visited by thousands of people from all over the United States.

What is driving the traffic? (short answer - a friend told a friend who told another) - Or - one might ponder - is it the engaging prose this writer puts forth, combined with the exquisite styling of the creative director, the art direction behind the eye catching graphics and layout, along with the award winning photography, - it all makes for a very attractive, compelling, informative, educational as well as an entertaining website to visit -. (Editorial note; my tongue is firmly planted against my cheek (;-o).

Or it could be, - great  "SEO" - Search engine optimization the process of improving the visibility of a website in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic or "algorithmic")search results. Along with good "UI" - user interface, the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs - design considerations applicable when creating websites and software. I know its not my programing skills, I am limited to HTML and CSS languages.

Folks out there tune-in to see whats going on in our rural corner of Oklahoma, America. "Thank you - Y'all come visit when ya can".

The oldest public pool in Oklahoma?

The swimming pool in Garber, Oklahoma may be the oldest municipal pool (1923) in the state of Oklahoma. The oldest public swimming pool in Garfield County, Oklahoma for sure. The Champlin Pool in Enid was built in 1956, a 500,000 gallon Olympic size pool, the only public pool within the city. The Garber pool was already a quarter of a century old.

Three, four, five generations of families in the Garber, OK area have learned to swim, splash, relax and enjoy the cool soothing waters of this local public pool. The residents of Kay, Garfield and Nobel Counties have traveled over to Garber for some of the Summer fun too. The lifeguards through the years have learned valuable life skill, made money and had a little fun in the process. It has been interesting to see how the bathing suits / swimwear have changed over the years. One piece, two piece, the bikini, swim trunks, board shorts.

My Grand-father was a child during the construction, he said, "a man with a team of mules dug the hole for the pool". Grandpa "Jack Lafferty" told me many tales of the swimming pool during his days - with each one of those stories there was a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eye. In my family alone we've had five generations that have played in this pool. I suspect every person/family in this area has their own fond memories to share.

Finding information on the Garber, OK swimming pool; the designer, builder, who financed the project, has been like a scavenger hunt. Local historical records have been examined, the Enid library was sourced, the Garifield County Courthouse was visited. The Enid Newspaper had an article about this pool in the mid 1990's. And, you know I searched the World wide web for hours.

WPA bridge South of Garber, OK.

A remnant of the WPA is still working and operational around here. North of Covington Oklahoma, located one mile East of  Highway 74/15, South of Garber, Ok, about 5 miles towards Covington (N 3050 Rd.). This bridge is of concrete and steel construction, a "fence" design; two horizontal precast concrete rails supported at regular intervals by poured-in-place concrete posts may serve this area another seventy-five years.

Built during the great depression,Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1935 to employ the millions of Americans left unemployed by economic downturn. Construction was the WPA's mainstay.

Road building and improvement, especially farm-to-market roads, accounted for almost half its expenditures in Oklahoma. Hundreds of school buildings, numerous National Guard armories, drainage projects, dams and reservoirs, and a number of municipal buildings are a part of the WPA legacy.