The Water Main Event

With all the bringing-Tulsa's-pipes-into-the-21st-century work combined with redoing part of Lewis Avenue, we've had our yard torn up about 6 times and several water mains breaking or totally bursting in the last year or more. Once, work at the intersection of 41st & Lewis caused our main to break. Now, it looks like a big one burst in the middle of the road in front of our house - it cracked the asphalt in 2 places; they've dug an enormous hole; it's taking 10h+ to fix...hopefully they'll only dig up part of the yard and curb. The kids do like drawing in the wet concrete, though...Tulsa will always have something to remember us by! :-)

When I was in active labor with my third child, although I didn't realize it for hours, they were digging up my yard. I wish I'd gotten a photo of the street sign lying in our yard...it was quirky, seeing it so close. I have a photo of me, holding my 2nd child, right in front of a digger parked on our grassy corner. Six hours later, my 3rd was born.