• For our anniversary date, Will and I drove all around Tulsa spewing carbon into the air, looking at way too big houses and talking about how “green” we are… ’cause we’re so consistent like that.
• While driving around the downtown area we saw a fox… let me repeat that for clarity - downtown!  A little dose of reality for any of you that thought Tulsa was “urban”. 
• We found a Farmer’s Market that runs from 4 to 8 each Thursday (around 6th & Peoria) and while visiting that discovered Centenial Park.  It’s gorgeous!  Besides scads of trees that are fully grown and even more that were recently planted there is an enormous pond with three fountains.  It is sunken down quite a way with canyon-like walls constructed of beautiful Tulsa stone.  The layout of the paths allows you to either walk around the rim of this canyon or descend and follow the perimeter of the pond.  Imagine our surprise when we discovered it’s very utiliarian function.  It is a drainage ditch.  You know, one of those ugly city “rivers” you usually see with sloped cement sides (If you need more imagery think of the car race in “Grease”)  Anyway, I was so pleased to see how Tulsa Parks has so creatively enhanced what could have been a tremendous eyesore that most people will never divine it’s purpose without being told.

For purposes of debt reduction, our dates have become less frequent than they used to be but are somehow more precious because of that.  The value of uninterrupted discussion in a family with little ones cannot be measured.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”

from “Through The Looking Glass”