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homemade Febreeze

...because making homemade stuff makes me feel like a better person!

Showmen's Rest

"Showmen's Rest - Mount Olivet Cemetery In Hugo, OK (Circus City USA) there is a cemetery that has a special section for deceased circus performers. There are some very interesting headstones with elephants, clowns, and big top tents."

baby Ian is in the Scary Mommy Guide to the First Year....

http://www.scarymommy.com/four-month-old-baby/

4 months old

Wigwam Hotel in Arizona....

How classically Americana would it be to sleep in a reappropriated Native American icon on the most famous highway of all time? For the record, it’s actually a teepee that guests stay in, not wigwams, but that doesn’t stop the Wigwam Village Motel #6 in Holbrook, AZ, from being a totally recognizable roadside attraction. Built in 1942, the grounds of this motel feature vintage automobiles and the interiors of all the teepees are paneled with Native American art and eccentric furnishings and southwest-style bedding.

Route 66 Alburquerque

Built in 1927 in the remarkable Art Deco-Pueblo Revival architecture style, the KiMo Theatre is bound to be one of the most striking building on the route. Located in downtown Albuquerque, it opened with Al Jolson’s The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length talking movie. There are myths surrounding it, whispers of the ghost of six-year-old Bobby Darnall who died in 1951 in the lobby of the theater. However, visitors will most appreciate the colorful three-story stucco building plastered with indigenous art and unique architectural elements.

Milk Bottle Grocery on Route 66 Oklahoma

Don’t blink while you’re driving down the Oklahoma City stretch of Route 66 because you won’t want to miss this: the Milk Bottle Grocery is a tiny 350-square-foot triangular building of red brick right in the middle of a thoroughfare at an old streetcar stop. But it’s not the building itself that’s remarkable, it’s the oversized milk bottle built out of sheet metal in 1948 perches right on top of the building, advertising the local dairy industry. While visitors can no longer stop in and purchase a bottle of milk for the road, they can grab a Vietnamese banh mi sandwich from Saigon Baguette, which calls the Milk Bottle Grocery home.