Years ago, I worked up a geologic prospect in Grant County, Oklahoma and sold it to a company that bought it under the condition that I would personally sit the well.  This means I would stay near the location while the well was drilling and personally look at the drilling samples as they came to the surface.  This occurred before Anne and I were married, but not before we were living together.

Deciding to make an adventure of it, we rented a 33’ recreational vehicle - country and western singer Wanda Jackson’s RV, according to the man we rented it from - and headed north.  We took along a good friend, Ray DeRieux.

The well was in the middle of a wheat field, without a tree in sight.  The drilling rig did not have enough power to generate electricity for the RV, so we had to run the generator full time.  It was hot that summer, 100 to 105 degrees every day.  The weather was hot, the wheat field dusty and the drilling rig noisy.  We did have a daily respite, three actually.

There was a café in Pond Creek called the Curb Café.  The County sheriff owned the café, and the specialty of the house was chicken-fried steak.  Soon, Anne, Ray and I were eating chicken-fried steak and eggs for breakfast, the chicken-fried steak luncheon special, and the dinner that included a fully-loaded, baked potato.

We soon learned that Sheriff Archie’s chicken-fries were not his only claim to fame.  He was also the state expert on witchcraft, crop circles and cattle mutilations – of which there were many.  STAY TUNED, THERE’S MORE  http://www.ericwilder.com  http://justeastofeden.blogharbor.com