Tulsa, OK

Martin Regional Library, 2601 South Garnett Road, is having their Third Annual Renaissance Faire this Saturday, September 8, from 1 to 4 pm. This year’s theme is Pirates: Prepare to be Shanghaied. It sounds like a lot of fun, and unlike most Ren Faires it costs nothing to get into to the Faire.

General Information:

Be sure to wear sunscreen!

Parking is free.

Come dressed as your favorite Pirate.

No Pets, Please

No Weapons, Please

There will be food and drink for sale.

Dress: Dress comfortably and appropriately. This is a family event, and proper, tasteful attire must be worn at all times. Please help us maintain a family friendly environment.

Cell Phones: Please switch your phones to mute or vibrate mode. Turn them off during performances and please be respectful to others.

Schedul of Events

OUTSIDE EVENTS (Performances may be subject to change.)
12:45 p.m. Anderson Pipe Band
1 p.m. Parade/Quest
1:30 p.m. Weapons Demonstrations by the School of Stage Combat
1:45 p.m. Parrots From the Tulsa Zoo
2 p.m. Drawings
2:30 p.m. Life of a Pirate by Ed Miller
3 p.m. Drawings
3:15 p.m. Weapons Demonstrations by the School of Stage Combat
4 p.m. Grand Finale
INSIDE EVENTS (Performances may be subject to change.)
1:15 p.m. Celtic Harp Music by Sarah Lindsey
1:15 p.m. Belly Dancing by the Bohemian Tribe
1:30 p.m. Music by the Bostelmann Ensemble
2:15 p.m. Irish Harp Music by Amberly Burgard
2:45 p.m. Music by the Tulsa Recorder Consort
3:15 p.m. Renaissance Music and Dancing by the
Song of Sophia Dance Company
3:15 p.m. Irish Harp Music by Amberly Burgard
3:30 p.m. Music by the Bostelmann Ensemble
CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES (Performances may be subject to change.)
1:30 p.m. Storytime
2:15 p.m. Captain AAArrvy
2:30 p.m. Marionettes
3:30 p.m. Storytime

We haven’t made it to a Ren Faire at all this year, but I’m sure we’ll go to this one. I don’t care if we are broke, we are taking the kids out to this event. We go to this library almost every weekend anyway. We might as well go when they’re having a big event like this. After all, it is two of my favorite things: a library full of books and a Ren Faire full of costumes. Hope to see you all out there. Have a great weekend.

Started walking with the kids and Mom yesterday morning. We get up around 6am and walk for close to half of an hour,then head home. That leaves Morgan time to shower and dress before the bus picks him up at seven.

Maegan has time to eat before catching her bus. Which is a good thing. Her bus driver told us Tuesday that Maegan’s pick up time was going to be a little earlier from now on because, apparently, the cafeteria had been closing before she dropped Maegan and the rest of the little ones off at Helen Paul.

I don’t understand how the people in the cafeteria were ok with an entire bus load of kids missing breakfast. Sure, some of the kids may have eaten before catching the bus, but I bet most of the kids were supposed to be eating at school. I sure wasn’t feeding Maegan before school. I expected the school to do what it said it would and feed her breakfast and lunch everyday. And Maegan said exactly nothing about not getting any breakfast at all for a week. She’s only six years old, and by the time she gets home at four in the afternoon, she’s not thinking about what happened ( or in this case didn‘t happen) at breakfast time.

It’s hard enough feeding your kids right without the school trying a starvation diet on them. Sure, I would like to see the school cut out some of the less-than-healthy menu items that they’re forced to serve due to budgetary restraints. I don’t like hearing that they’ve cut an entire meal service. Saving money is one thing, starving children is an entirely different matter.

And, yes, the principal did hear about this. Which is why the new bus schedule this week.

walking, kids, bus, breakfast, skipping meals

I took Mom to her appointments with the Drs for her disabilty claim yesterday. We left around 8am and didn’t get home until 3:30 pm. The first dr, a psych dr, only took a little over an hour, but the second dr, for her physical, took forever.

We waited in the waiting room for an hour an a half before even talking to the dr. Then the actual interview and exam took another 45 minutes. I was exhausted, and I only had to drive her to the appointments.

Of course, all the rain yesterday didn’t help. Why is it we can go weeks with no rain, and then the one day I have to be out and about it decides to just pour? Some days I just feel cursed, you know?

Oh well. Today’s a new day. Hopefully it’s better than the last one.

Mom has two doctor’s appointments today. Social Security is sending her to it’s drs to verify her disability claim.  Of course, it’s most likely to deny her claim, but one should try to be hopeful. I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow.

Happy Labor Day!

Since it’s a holiday, I thought I would just post my favorite bumper stickers from last month. So here they are:

Republicans for Voldemort!

If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.

Gravity…Don’t fall for it.

I haven’t had my coffee yet…don’t make me kill you.

Wake me in 2008 (if there’s anyone left alive)

We need a president who’s fluent in at least one language.

What am I? Flypaper for freaks?!?

Come to the darkside… we have cookies.

Don’t believe everything you think.

Sorry for driving so close… in front of you.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Oh, we so need another revolution.

All stressed out and no one to choke.

What if the Hokey-Pokey really is what it’s all about?

Never let the flag be a blindfold.