Cookie's Corner

Welcome to Cookie's Corner.  Here you will be able to learn about the Laizure Family Dog, Cookie.  She is 5 years old. Cookie is a Goldendoodle.  Yes, that's right, a Goldendoodle.  She is half Golden Retriever and half Standard Poodle.  She weighs about 65 pounds.  I call her the "Will Rogers of Dogs" because she never met another life form she didn't like.  She LOVES kids and she is just the world's friendliest dog. 

We looked long and hard for a dog that would not shed, would be healthy, friendly to young children and had a good personality.  After many hours of research, we stumbled across the Goldendoodle website, www.goldendoodles.com where we found a lot of information about the breed, learned about reputable breeders and in the end, found Cookie.  It was hard work but it paid off.   I highly recommend this website and if you are looking for a great dog, I highly recommend a Goldendoodle. 

We bought Cookie from a very nice lady near Washington, D.C.  She shipped Cookie to us and we met her at the airport and brought her home.  She was only 8 weeks old.  She weighed about 10 pounds.  That was five years ago.  My, how the time has flown by. 

As I type this, Cookie is sitting close by looking out at Swan Lake, watching the ducks and the people go by.  She is such a great dog.

Cookie enjoys her walk around Swan Lake every morning.  She likes to watch the ducks, the people, the swan who is waitng for a new mate.

 

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My story

Thanks for visiting my blog.  I hope you will find some useful and helpful information.

I was born the youngest of seven children. My parents moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma when I was 9 and I graduated from Bartlesville College High School in 1973.  Then it was on to the University of Oklahoma for 7 years, ending with a law degree in 1980.

I practiced on my own for a short time, then joined the Stipe Law Firm in McAlester in 1981.  I have  been with that firm since then.  We opened an office in Tulsa in 1984 and I have been here ever since.

I married Brenda Michie of McAlester in 1983 and a  year later, we moved to Tulsa.  We live in mid-town Tulsa, in Swan Lake Neighborhood, an historic, charming place.  We recently celebrated the return of our swans, who have been absent from the lake for a few years.  Unfortunately, one of the swans did not adapt to the return to the lake and passed away.  We are looking for a new mate or a new pair of swans.  To learn more about our neighborhood, visit us on the web at http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/public/main.html?nneighid=349991996&nsupercity=563030875

We have two girls, Ronni and Maddi.  Ronni is a 2006 graduate Booker T. Washington High School. She is attending Hendrix College in Arkansas.  Maddi is a sophomore at Booker T. this year.