Living Rich

Leah, Robert, our friend Jackie, and I visited the Skelley Lodge east of Catoosa to see if it was suitable for an RWI retreat. (Ha! I felt more as if we should determine whether we were suitable for it!)

It's a gorgeous place, built of rock, with lots of boulders/exposed rock around. I love Oklahoma rocks. Love looking at them, climbing on them, working with them. They make the setting beautiful even now, when the trees are still bare. It must be breathtaking when everything's leafed out.

The lodge was built by one of the Skelleys of early-Oklahoma-oil-boom Skelley as a hunting lodge, and was visited by some of the big names of the time, including Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower. Can you see us bunking down in the same rooms where they slept? Too cool.

Don't know if we'll be able to afford the place, though it would be perfect for our weekend getaway. I've got dibs on the comfiest spot on the second-floor balcony overlooking the valley! Rachel8:27 PM