Oklahoma update

We have been here almost a month and are starting to settle in, I have been out riding and we have been swimming plenty since the pool is just down the street.

another quiet time at the pool!

We have some of our pictures on the walls and most of the things we brought with us put away although not always in the right places.
Now that we have a place with a garden we have been able to splurge on some non essential items.

We now own a telescope, weather radio and a weather station.

The Telescope

We bought a Celestron NexStar 130SLT. It was purchased from a local company (astronomics) albeit online. The telescope is really fun so far, we haven't tried the tracking feature yet but we have enjoyed looking at the moon and a few planets. Since we bought it we have had very limited clear sky to look at however, we are looking forward to seeing what this whole astronomy thing is all about.
Here is Amanda doing some back yard astronomy on the first night we bought it.

Back yard Astronomy

Here are a couple of snapshots taken with our phones through the scope.

Moon

Jupiter and moons

Next step will be to join the local astronomy club and really start to enjoy it.

The Weather station

Oklahoma has weather, which I have been informed that Alaska didn't have, right Amanda?

Weather warnings

"Interesting weather"

To be prepared for this we bought a weather radio so that when sleeping we will be woken up by weather alerts.

To track/record what has been happening in the local area we decided to invest in a weather station. We bought the Ambient WS2902-A. This station tracks a whole host of things but most importantly can be seen online.

While looking for a weather station I learnt that windspeed is measured at 33ft, this is not going to happen in this neighbourhood. So wind speed is never going to be that accurate however I did the best I could with placement and I'm sure it will be fun to track what is happening in our back yard.

Station placement. 

Link to our weather station. 

And this is our display indoors

All the data ready to view

Other things

As I mentioned earlier I have been out riding, see my other post about that here. I still haven't gotten all the bikes together yet but we can at least ride as a family. I haven't managed to get mountain biking yet as the trails have been mostly closed due to lots of weather (AKA rain) but I will get out as soon as the trails open.