Monday, April 4, 2011

Won’t you be my neighbor?

The day we moved into our house, we had to park down the block as the moving trucks took up the whole street. While we were walking to the house, a lady and her daughter stopped us to find out if we were the new neighbors. They introduced themselves and said that they would stop by later. I figured, sure you will. Neighbors like that only exist on TV shows. Fast forward to later that evening and there they were at my front door wanting to know if I needed anything from Trader Joe’s. Whoa, these people were for real. She gave me a quick rundown of the area, and asked if I preferred chocolate or wine. Easy question, bring on the booze! A few days later she returned with her husband and a bottle of wine as a welcome to the neighborhood gift. I was so impressed by the whole neighborliness of it, in fact I still am.

Yesterday I was out working in the yard, and the neighbor across the street came over to bring us some cupcakes. She apologized for not coming over earlier to meet us. She seemed really nice and told me if I saw a lot of traffic coming in and out of their house it was because they run a home business, and aren’t selling drugs! The chocolate cupcakes were a great addition to the bottle of Cabernet we were drinking later that evening (not the bottle the other neighbor brought over). A few people asked us if we were going to move after the house got broke into, and we said no we like the neighborhood. And having neighbors that actually care just makes me like it more.

What is the nicest thing as neighbor has done for you?  Or are you the "nice" neighbor?

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Redeemed

Thank you for a lovely Friday afternoon. Why can't you be warm and sunny everyday?