We've repaired the cracks and they keep cracking.

We've got to do something. Fowler Park has the Pioneer Village and camping on the lake, which was its drawing card. Now it's not. If you watch most campers today, they have modern, up-to-date equipment. It's not bringing a tent and roughing it. Prairie Creek with electrical hookups has no primitive sites, like Fowler or Hawthorn.

Fowler Park is already more than $6,200 below last year.

I think people who visit parks want up-to-date facilities. If they don't find that, they go someplace else. That, I think, is why I am seeing more people going to Prairie Creek Park.

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.

Sometimes the whole thing cracks me up, it's so absurd,