I forgot...

I had one other news story that I wanted to share. Since it's a good one, I decided I better put it on while I'm thinking of it.

Last Sunday we had a lot of wind (remember our tornado watch). Monday there was a Nascar flag in our front yard. Now, we really did have a lot of wind, but I don't know if we had that much wind, so I'm somewhat suspicious that we also had at least one neighborhood prankster. Anyway, we've seen the flags out on Sundays since we've been here, but since we know nothing about Nascar, we didn't remember where we had seen that particular flag, so it laid on our front sidewalk (where it had been thoughtfully placed by one of our neighbors) until yesterday.

On our way home from church we saw all of the flags out again and a brilliant solution came to me -- we stop at every house with flags and ask if they know of anyone who may have lost a flag. Well, by the time my thought had processed, we were past the first house, so we stopped at the second and met John. Wouldn't you know -- it was his flag. So we drove home (about four houses down), got the flag, and returned it. Now, I must say, we felt very happy about the whole situation -- good deed done, warm fuzzy feeling, good example for our children, and couldn't have been easier.

Well, you just can't do a good deed in Oklahoma. Later that afternoon we found an envelope with a note and a gift card to a local fast food/ice cream place in our mailbox. This is why we love it here. The people are absolutely fabulous! (excepting my OB) Of course, we wonder what our children are learning -- do what you should, with no expectation for reward and get reward??